Example sentences of "[be] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not inferring from what I see that there is a sheep in the field ; I take myself simply to see that there is one . |
| 2 | That document — I now quote from it so that I can make certain that I am not misleading the House — states : ’ Special software packages are being developed commercially and will be available before April 1991 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | I am not seeking to suggest that there is anything sinister about such a process . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I am not buying any more pencil cases . |
| 7 | I am not buying any more pencil cases . |
| 8 | Now I find that I am not given it . ’ |
| 9 | They can thank whatever devils they happen to worship that I have much gentleness in my soul and am not given to vituperation or excessive polemic . |
| 10 | I am not lassoing Lucker . |
| 11 | He looked slightly amused as he said : ‘ I am not owed any explanations , this is your house . ’ |
| 12 | Cher said : ‘ I am not engaged , I am not married and I am not pregnant . |
| 13 | I am not expecting my parents to be reaching the end of their life when they are fortyish but I am likely to be expecting this , although probably unconsciously , when my parents are ninetyish . |
| 14 | I am not expecting the Test wickets to turn a lot — they did n't on the tour there in 1981-82 — and the current Indian attack is based more around pace than spin . |
| 15 | I am not thinking primarily of the well-established learned journals , which have high editorial standards and a long queue of articles waiting to appear . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not thinking of a police scene-of-crime picture . |
| 17 | Obviously I am not thinking of ‘ answers ’ as something necessarily conceptual or purely verbal , as if a Christian answer was a string of words beginning ‘ Christianity says that … . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I am not thinking anything , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 19 | When I say ‘ this war ’ , I am not thinking only of the current one , but of all our modern wars and our entire modern history from when we became free of the Turks in 1819 . |
| 20 | There is the dispositional fact that I believe my name is what it is , which is a fact about me when I am not thinking of my name . |
| 21 | ‘ I am not thinking here of the tabloid press , whose characteristics have been much debated recently , but more particularly of the quality press and the TV programmes which expect to be taken seriously . |
| 22 | I am not refusing him , but it is too soon . |
| 23 | there I am not the same I am not kidding . |
| 24 | I am not kidding you : for this high-level encounter he goes to the news-agents ' next door and gets the key that hangs behind the counter . |
| 25 | ‘ I am not living in a bed of roses but in reality . ’ |
| 26 | He replied , ‘ Herr Karajan , do you imagine that I am not listening to what you are doing ? |
| 27 | Order , I am not in , I am not allowing anything outside the scope of the debate Mr Michael Spicer . |
| 28 | I am not demanding that every subject which has a technical vocabulary or which employs concepts other than those employed by common sense should be rendered simple , and fit for consumption by every man or woman in the street . |
| 29 | Then he said : ‘ I hope I am not trespassing over a duty ascribed to someone else present here , but then I had heard no proposals for anyone to give a toast in thanks to our host , the most honourable and kind Lord Darlington . ’ |
| 30 | Do n't misunderstand me , I am not implying that she should be working … |