Example sentences of "[pron] be not [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inertia has kept the sites occupied , but functionally many of them are not related to their countryside surroundings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Many of them are not used to disabled people , and , being temporary , they rarely get to know her anyway . |
| 4 | I said ‘ No and I are n't going to now , am I ? ’ |
| 5 | The truth is I am not speaking to your father . ’ |
| 6 | I am not referring to the debate on methods : the disagreements of the floggers and anti-floggers are dwarfed by the appalling facts of prison provision and the deficiencies of our penal system . |
| 7 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 8 | In this section , I am not referring to those blocks in the memory which the subconscious mind has created to prevent the subject remembering some deeply traumatic incident in his or her past . |
| 9 | By ‘ humanism , I am not referring to people who do n't believe in God . |
| 10 | I am not referring to the wonders of the universe , or to the workings of the human brain , but merely to the genetical and biological formation of us humans . |
| 11 | ‘ I stress I am not referring to this incident , but ball-tampering must never be allowed to happen again . |
| 12 | I am not referring to the victims , of course , who do n't know me and who , for all practical purposes , are n't human but come in sections of interest , so that even their smiles and yawns and frowns come in sections . |
| 13 | I am not referring to ad hoc arrangements or short-term palliatives . |
| 14 | I am not referring to The Sunday Times cocked-up , distorted version , which CIPFA denounced after it had been printed . |
| 15 | He replied , ‘ Herr Karajan , do you imagine that I am not listening to what you are doing ? |
| 16 | I am not wed to your son by church law . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not walking to any hut with you , ’ she assured him with icy defiance . |
| 18 | Fortunately I am not driven to this expedient that often , because I have many other stratagems that I have devised for attaining the same object . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not going to , ’ said Lucy vehemently . |
| 20 | I am not going to be provoked . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And I am not going to be your mama ! ’ |
| 22 | B : I am not going to . |
| 23 | No , I am not going to a fancy dress party , but to work . |
| 24 | I am not going to be vulgarly inquisitive . |
| 25 | My time is extremely valuable , and I am not going to be kept waiting here while people like patients take up five or 10 minutes when I shall not be earning at a rate that would put the salary of Members of Parliament to shame . |
| 26 | ‘ I am not going to Rome ! |
| 27 | ‘ No , I am not going to be sick again , ’ she added fiercely as Elise eyed her in alarm . |
| 28 | I am not going to ma ma my , I do I am not going to go in my own chair ! |
| 29 | I said I do n't mind this doing statement , I said , but I am not going to court ! |
| 30 | In view of this , it would be no more than proper and right for me to talk in some in great detail about it , but I am not going to , and not just because I have an eye on the clock , or an ear for the protest of stomachs . |