Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was definitely the case with me and , even now , I occasionally have one or two lessons to make sure I am not getting into bad habits . |
| 32 | ‘ I am not getting bloody childish ! ’ |
| 33 | I am not getting my money 's worth . |
| 34 | I am not lost in the story , it is like reading a comic on the bus . |
| 35 | I am not lost and so I have lost . |
| 36 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 37 | Cher said : ‘ I am not engaged , I am not married and I am not pregnant . |
| 38 | Now this Act will bind six thousand of us — I am not speaking in my own interest , I am well past the age — but this Act will empty the glens of the young active men — and how can they marry if they are in barracks and camps in England , or in France if you send them there — you say you will not … |
| 39 | I am not speaking of areas where the land is naturally productive and crofts are , in effect , small family farms . |
| 40 | The truth is I am not speaking to your father . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ I am not speaking altogether correctly . |
| 42 | ‘ I am not speaking of the flowers , Georg . |
| 43 | I am not referring to the debate on methods : the disagreements of the floggers and anti-floggers are dwarfed by the appalling facts of prison provision and the deficiencies of our penal system . |
| 44 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 45 | In this section , I am not referring to those blocks in the memory which the subconscious mind has created to prevent the subject remembering some deeply traumatic incident in his or her past . |
| 46 | By ‘ humanism , I am not referring to people who do n't believe in God . |
| 47 | I am not referring to the wonders of the universe , or to the workings of the human brain , but merely to the genetical and biological formation of us humans . |
| 48 | ‘ I stress I am not referring to this incident , but ball-tampering must never be allowed to happen again . |
| 49 | I am not referring to the victims , of course , who do n't know me and who , for all practical purposes , are n't human but come in sections of interest , so that even their smiles and yawns and frowns come in sections . |
| 50 | I am not referring to ad hoc arrangements or short-term palliatives . |
| 51 | I am not referring to The Sunday Times cocked-up , distorted version , which CIPFA denounced after it had been printed . |
| 52 | ‘ I am not prepared for us to be a satellite of Middlesbrough and it appears the majority of Radio One programmes will be coming from Middlesbrough , ’ he said . |
| 53 | I am not seeking to suggest that there is anything sinister about such a process . |
| 54 | I am not seeking to make health care into a business , but I make no apology for seeking to employ business techniques in the health service in order to deliver the central objectives of the health service more effectively than in the past . |
| 55 | I am not lassoing Lucker . |
| 56 | I am not evading your question . |
| 57 | I am not flattered at all by the fact that I 'm the only one who has been a published novelist writing from inside South Africa . |
| 58 | I am not advocating the bargaining procedure described above . |
| 59 | I am not advocating such a theory of parsing English into formal representations — I happen not to believe strongly in such ‘ top — down ’ theories , though there are several relatively successful ones in the literature . |
| 60 | I am not advocating thrombolysis in the absence of that , but provided that is available and he keeps his head and the family respect the GP , then he should be giving thrombolysis . |