Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although she is not qualified , Mrs Chaplin , who has a PhD in economics , spent five years as a trainee at a small firm of chartered accountants in Norwich and ran her own business . |
| 32 | For kicks , she climbs mountains and skis , so she is not left wanting for adventure . |
| 33 | Because the social structure in the villages was one based on patriarchal families , where the daughter is invariably given away in marriage , and where , because a woman 's chief economic role is as a producer of labour power ( her sons ) she is not considered of any real economic value before she is married . |
| 34 | It wo n't hurt her a bit if another dog growls at her , as it will make her realise she is not considered top dog by them . |
| 35 | She is not working here this week but should be fielding calls for us after the election . ’ |
| 36 | However , as with every part of the curriculum , there is a wider perspective to be taken into account , and that is the fact that there is a limit on what an individual teacher can achieve if he or she is not working in harmony with the rest of the school . |
| 37 | Here the homeworkers poorly paid job dovetails neatly into the work for which she is not paid at all . |
| 38 | The Queen has been told that she is not to summon anybody to form a Government until she has heard who the new Leader is . |
| 39 | She is not stretching her swanlike neck |
| 40 | The bars of Victoria 's cot were black and menacing and the line of light under the door from the landing was a brilliant pencil which might at any moment rear up and scrawl ‘ She is not normall ’ lambently on the wall . |
| 41 | From birth , the baby and infant imbibes moral values and learns to control instinctual wishes so that he or she is not chastised by parents , or other agents of socialization . |
| 42 | Joseph said : ‘ Well , just make sure you impress on her that I had nothing to do with any murder and she is not to suggest it . ’ |
| 43 | This movement is usually made more apparent because the head sinks into the shoulders and the hands come close to the body to protect it from some blow , curse or frightening event , e.g. Juliet 's movement after her father has demanded why she is not conforming to his wishes . |
| 44 | She is not educated . ’ |
| 45 | But Cooper 's figures also possess a larger than life boldness due not so much to childlike innocence but to the kind of confidence we imagine Eve and Adam had before the Fall , However , she is not confronting us with an easily gained optimism nor do her disembodied heads , upturned women and mild impassive eyes really evoke a vision of dream . |
| 46 | Since she is not going to advise Octavia to marry the suspect Philander , she suggests celibacy : |
| 47 | She may know that she is not going to recover from the blow of widowhood any sooner than other women do , many of whom at least have a large legacy of happy memories upon which to draw in the years ahead of them . |
| 48 | She is not going to make the same mistake Jimmy Carter 's First Lady Rosalyn did . |
| 49 | It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us . |
| 50 | I mutter something and start to clear the dishes , but she is not going to be brushed aside , so Darius crouches at the table with his chin on his hands , watching us like we 're Punch and Judy , and I admit that someone might come . |
| 51 | If she is not shovelling food down my throat , or forcing your noxious potions upon me , she is — ’ |
| 52 | " She is not suited to such a place as this . " |
| 53 | She is not to think she can get away with behaving hurtfully . |
| 54 | Our chief executive , Petre Sefton , is not an accountant but she comes from a commercial organisation , so she is not fettered in any way by preconceived notions about the profession . |
| 55 | Some parents complain that they feel rather awkward going up to their child , when ( for example ) she is not behaving badly , in order to say , ‘ You are painting so nicely , I really feel pleased ’ . |
| 56 | " Goodness me , do n't start taking that as a compliment , she cares about everyone 's feelings , she 's an archetypal victim , she 's an absolute fool about other people 's feelings , and let me warn you , I may as well warn you , the more she dislikes somebody , the more somebody annoys her , the more careful she is not to hurt their feelings , in fact the only people she is ever rude to are people like me and Gabriel and Papa , I mean people she cares for enough not to worry about being fair to . |
| 57 | She is not fighting back |
| 58 | He poured his mother 's ashes in the place she is now and I am absolutely positive that he knows now she is not coming back . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ Even though you know that she is not coming back , it does n't stop you missing her every day . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ Well , we 'll get the cars to keep an eye out for her , but I have an awful feeling in my gut that she is not coming home . |