Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be not [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | But you will no doubt also understand what I mean when I say it is not at all easy to define just what this quality is . |
2 | ‘ And I say he 's not on any drugs . |
3 | ‘ Since then , our players have said they are not at all worried . ’ |
4 | Hope they 're not like that bloke at Audrey 's |
5 | As I suspect it 's not for many of the people here . |
6 | In what follows I shall describe one type of such interconnection , though I confess I am not by any means sure that it is the one responsible for the rapid modification process . |
7 | ‘ At least you know she 's not in any danger , do n't you ? ’ |
8 | But they know you 're not like that do n't they , round and about ? |
9 | All too often , students engage in study that only results in shallow or superficial learning of the first type — for example , the rote learning of names , dates , superficial factual data and characteristics that you hold in your short-term memory just long enough to pass an examination and that are then rapidly forgotten , because they have not been internalized — perhaps because our psyches know they are not of much use in the long run . |
10 | Yeah , it was , and th erm but it 's just saying it 's not like that . |
11 | Once Felipe 's mother died I was not at all welcome . |
12 | Personally I liked it , but felt it was not worth all the publicity I had helped create for it . |
13 | A quarter consider it very worthwhile and almost another half consider it to be fairly , a quarter found it to be not very but only 5 per cent thought it was not at all worthwhile . |
14 | I fear he is not in such sound health as you may think , my lord . |
15 | I mean it 's not like that important is it ? |
16 | There is a major difference and it 's easy to see he was not at all well . |
17 | She thinks he is not at all the great genius he is made out to be — just possesses a pleasing talent . |
18 | But the scene which awaited her was not at all what she expected . |
19 | And I think it is not at all clear what sort of mechanism he has in mind . |
20 | It glamourises what is not at all a glamourous job . |
21 | And er she says Jean I swear to God she says if she comes over near my door , I 've told Jim she says , I , I 'm ready for her I 'll beat her round that square and she said I 'm not like that but she says that 's just the way she says , and she hurt my kids when I sent them Easter eggs over , doing that she says , that really galled me , she says cos they were hurting my kids rather than me . |
22 | Owen thought he knew what kind of assistance that was but Mahmoud said it was not like that , or not like that entirely . |
23 | Although horses were kept it is not at all clear whether they , as opposed to cattle , were used for traction . |
24 | Some were already serving in the Militia , the Territorial Army and the LMSR Army Supplementary Reserve Units ( RE ) : others volunteered who were not in these units and more were conscripted . |
25 | But in shopping it 's not like that is it ? |
26 | I in a mammal it looks as if that the mother 's body i is , is an oven , and once you 've put the bun in , it 's gon na rise it 's not like that . |