Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Vision screening procedures , even when administered regularly and appropriately , are useless if the results from them are not followed up .
3 There is good evidence that the differences between them are not caused by differences between the DNA sequence of their genes , although it may be that different genes are active in different kinds of cells .
4 ‘ The challenge will be to maintain morale among the staff because what really matters is to make sure that services to people who need them are not disrupted during a period of change . ’
5 Inertia has kept the sites occupied , but functionally many of them are not related to their countryside surroundings .
6 Only four of them are not dated ; their position in the chronological ordering has been estimated .
7 I HAVE listened with great interest to those voices who do n't want the ‘ South African tour rebels ' ’ ban to be lifted , and it is clear to me that many of them are not expressing these views out of a sense of justice or respect for the millions of blacks still suffering in South Africa .
8 Deposits can also be held at non-bank financial institutions such as building societies , mortgage corporations , savings and loans associations and finance houses ; however , such institutions generally have to hold cheque account balances at banks themselves and thus public deposits with them are not regarded as part of the nation 's money supply in many countries .
9 There are other goods which are held in common ownership , such as the air , the sea and common land , which it is difficult to prevent people from using because property rights in them are not assigned to individual owners .
10 Some of them are not going to vote Conservative this time — if at all .
11 If an asylum claim that is not justified under the United Nations convention is to be the means of obtaining settlement in the United Kingdom , we need at the very least to explain , particularly to the minority communities legitimately settled here , why their friends and relatives who would like to come and join them are not allowed to do so because they told the truth when they made their applications , whereas others who are prepared to make an unfounded asylum claim can remain indefinitely .
12 Many of them are not used to disabled people , and , being temporary , they rarely get to know her anyway .
13 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 .
14 I want to emphasize that in my discussion of social differentiation I am not dealing with an ‘ underclass ’ in the sense in which that term has recently been employed by , among others , Dahrendorf ( 1987 ) .
15 Thorfinn said , ‘ I am not dealing with your brother-in-law , or your son , or your nephew .
16 I am not promising miracles but one thing is certain .
17 I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control .
18 I am not discussing my sex life at a bus stop ! ’
19 I am not intending to go through the report in detail erm but I hope that I we will now need to draw attention to one or two issues erm which are of particular concern and which emerged through the consultation process .
20 I am not living in a bed of roses but in reality . ’
21 Just because the vicar down the road is selfish and insensitive , I am not justified in concluding that therefore religion is bad .
22 Oh certainly not I 'm staying at or the I am not traipsing across France .
23 Yet , I am not writing about him for the above reasons , it 's rather on account of an unlikely weakness of his than for one of his many strengths .
24 When I am not writing I draw .
25 At this point I am not writing about open conflict , mutiny , factions or friction , but about a quiet pulling in a different direction .
26 In embarking on this section of my reminiscences , I need to stress once more that I am not writing my own memoirs .
27 I am not writing this as a need for revenge .
28 I am not writing to discuss the subject of inflation although give a soap-box to stand on I could go on for ever .
29 But , equally , I am not reporting on my state of mind ( 20–21 , 26 , 36 , 41 , 44 , 47 , etc . ) .
30 But , for all the reasons given by my noble and learned friend , Lord Browne-Wilkinson , with whose speech I entirely agree , I am not placed in that invidious situation .
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