Example sentences of "i [be] not " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But the adverts that really annoy me are not so much the ones aimed at women but the ones aimed at men . |
| 2 | A couple of people who work for me are not too clever — and one feels that you have to repeat instructions , and they — even so they 're not undertaken . |
| 3 | The discrimination between the local authorities throughout the country and the London boroughs pardon me are not included in this decision , in fact they 're exempt from it . |
| 4 | ‘ My wife and I are not badly off as we have the state pension , my police pension , and a police civil staff pension . |
| 5 | Julian and I are not terribly good at snooker . |
| 6 | Of course you and I are not snobs , are we ? |
| 7 | My father and I are not very close — I 'm not a son who could be sent to sea . " |
| 8 | Caro and I are not blood relations . |
| 9 | I assure the hon. Member for Normanton — with whom it is a pleasure to be debating again ; it has been our daily dose for the past three weeks , and he is a worthy opponent — that my party and I are not living in the past . |
| 10 | I hope David and I are not ill . |
| 11 | I am not confident that either book may be said to be well-written ; that question , too , could be thought to arise . |
| 12 | I am not sure how much work these last words are doing , and if there is tautology here , it is compounded by what follows . |
| 13 | Without the which I am not to be won , |
| 14 | I am not suggesting , he wrote , that this period was particularly unpleasant . |
| 15 | I sometimes feel sorry , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that I am not of their kind . |
| 16 | I am not talking primarily about myself , he wrote , for it will be obvious to anyone who reads these notes that you have used me simply as a stalking horse for some of your more outrageous views and . |
| 17 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am not sure if this will reach you and I know that even if it does you will not reply . |
| 18 | I am not talking about the long run , he wrote . |
| 19 | When I am not in the room with it , he wrote , it no longer exists . |
| 20 | The trouble is that I am not a tea-drinker , and so my plants get only the occasional treat when guests visit . |
| 21 | However , I am not hopeful that her example will force the institution to reassess its attitude to the critical account , for even the fears of someone like Stead , which came from a central location of police power at the Staff College at Bramshill , seem to have largely fallen on stony ground . |
| 22 | ‘ I am not going to have an affair with you . |
| 23 | ‘ I am not going to , ’ said Lucy vehemently . |
| 24 | Yes , I expect you do , said Lucy , a tiny precise voice in her ear , but I am not the one to help you . |
| 25 | However , I am not happy with the protectors I have seen and would advise all female contestants to buy a World Taekwondo Federation ( WTF ) padded jacket for their sparring practice . |
| 26 | Now this Act will bind six thousand of us — I am not speaking in my own interest , I am well past the age — but this Act will empty the glens of the young active men — and how can they marry if they are in barracks and camps in England , or in France if you send them there — you say you will not … |
| 27 | I am not — ’ He stopped and looked round , almost in alarm , at a noise outside the door . |
| 28 | ( One caveat : I am not saying that this is the only necessary experiential condition for objectivity : it is , though , the one which highlights the importance of action most clearly in differentiating the objective from the subjective within the stream of experience . ) |
| 29 | I am not suggesting that we should be completely sceptical about the value of introspection . |
| 30 | It is a heavy serviceable machine and I am not really knocking Wilson because in another situation it would probably do a very good job but for us it is just not a very pleasant tool to be with . |