Example sentences of "be not [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The US Tour want me to conform , to be lily-white like Jack Nicklaus but I am not him — I am John Daly . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Am not I your own angel boy ? |
| 3 | when , when the does , when the Twiggys came in and and the , the the angular woman er , of which I am not I wonder if that was the male view or what is the wo , the view that women have of themselves ? |
| 4 | I am not I bet they do n't neither do I . |
| 5 | Either we are arrogant , saying , ‘ Thank God I am not you ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I am not you , so it 's best that you decide ; but we could talk over the options you have . ’ |
| 7 | But I am not you , and except for the shadow-elms I see little evidence of genesis from you — you are moving too fast , perhaps . |
| 8 | He goes on : ‘ I asked the whole frame of the world about my God ; and it answered me , ‘ I am not he , but he made me . ’ ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I am not he of Tellenor , ’ said my dad , who was always good at bluffing . |
| 10 | Germany 's needs are not ours and the treatment prescribed for German troubles is killing the rest of us . |
| 11 | the National Parks are not ours , but ours to look after , ours to treasure and enjoy . |
| 12 | So there is a real question whether or not there are sensations which are not ours , but it is evidence-transcendent . |
| 13 | Each of us knows the nature of his or her own sensory states ; but can we know the nature of the sensory states of others , or even that there are any other minds to have the sensory states which are not ours ? |
| 14 | Her moral responsibilities are not ours and therefore nor are her rights commensurate . |
| 15 | ‘ Are not we all one in Christ ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Naturally my blessing — are not we all King Edward 's men at heart ! ’ |
| 17 | Are not we entitled to be told the whole truth , as revealed by Greenpeace , which is that the total lifetime cost of Trident will be more than £23 billion ? |
| 18 | In a similar sort of way , as Fillmore ( 1971b ) notes , the editorial we of , for example , the New Yorker takes plural verb agreement ( thus we are not we am ) , but in the reflexive the underlying singularity shows through in phrases like as for ourself . |
| 19 | If they are not they should be bought . |
| 20 | Are not they an example to us ? |
| 21 | As to Crescent Wharves Ltd. and Ship Link Terminals Ltd. , it was pointed out that most of the heavy goods vehicles are not theirs but belong to their customers or carriers and that in any event it would be wrong to aggregate their respective contributions in the circumstances of this case . |
| 22 | A year or two later , expanding on her analysis , Iris Murdoch dubbed the journalistic novel ‘ loose and cheerful ’ , adding gaily that she was inclined to start writing a novel in the hope that ‘ a lot of people who are not me are going to come into existence in some wonderful way ’ — though frustrated , sometimes , by the prevailing theoretical power of her own philosophical mind . |
| 23 | Because they are experts and you are not it is easy for them to take the initiative . |
| 24 | are not I think it 's pressure that society 's putting on the women , I think it 's pressure that women are putting on themselves , and also that other women put on women and that men put on women . |
| 25 | ‘ Are not you forgetting something ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Are not you heir to the House of York — maman 's very own White Rose ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Are not you Miss Dinah Asshe ? ’ |
| 28 | Why should I dress myself up in clothes that are not mine ? |
| 29 | I thought that I would scratch out the pictures , but now that the woman has seen them they are not mine any more . |
| 30 | Your conception of pains which are not yours is not a conception of something which is like your pain , since it hurts , but which is not one of yours . |