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 .
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