Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] is not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It wo n't hurt her a bit if another dog growls at her , as it will make her realise she is not considered top dog by them . |
| 2 | ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield . |
| 3 | Solid as a bull whale in his confidence and peering through eyes that suggest he is not lacking in a little magic himself , Hugh Smith calmly rebuts every argument that London is in decline . |
| 4 | We may also include in discourse deixis a number of other ways in which an utterance signals its relation to surrounding text , e.g. utterance-initial anyway seems to indicate that the utterance that contains it is not addressed to the immediately preceding discourse , but to one or more steps back . |
| 5 | A way round this hearsay evidence is for the officer to say ‘ The passenger Mr. Jones says he is not licensed to drive this car so I am reporting you ( the defendant ) for quitting a vehicle ’ etc . |
| 6 | But the co-ordinator of the elderly peoples ' service development programme Paul Cousins says he is not looking for uniformity . |
| 7 | He says he has a mean spirit on the golf course and he says he is not having fun , but he also says " this is my joy " . " |
| 8 | The Mercury One-2-One Ltd digital cellular joint venture between Cable & Wireless Plc and US West Inc has been talking to Reuters , and says it is not seeking to trigger a price war with Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Plc . |
| 9 | Moving cautiously into the Unix market , Software AG says it is not seeking to confront competitors at the moment . |
| 10 | America says it is not ruling out military action against Iraq following its defiance of Gulf War ceasefire terms . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope he is not going to be taller than me . |
| 12 | ( I am assuming that even if similar supplies to the Blues will help them , continuing not to help them is not hindering them . ) |
| 13 | Algae and other weed in the canal shows it is not used too often and some patches grow right across although it is not hard to paddle through them and the lengths of wood and other floating debris . |
| 14 | I think that most people would feel that is the right way to use the word , and yet if the animal is anaesthetised it is not suffering . |
| 15 | How they actually manage it is not revealed and so it is highly suitable for family viewing . |
| 16 | And the who 's going to do it is not determined until a couple of days before either party knows . |
| 17 | Let's hope it is not wasted . |
| 18 | Apart from this final item — a charge which District Audit assure me is not made by most other banks and which was not made by yourselves in previous years — I have been very happy with the standard of service provided by Natwest Bank . |
| 19 | New Level , a white and black son of Murlens Slippy , took part in last year 's Wimbledon event when only a pup , but Johnston obviously feels he is not suited to the tight London circuit . |
| 20 | And it is not it is not fixed it is not fixed or in geological terms , petrified . |
| 21 | As it is , Hagi will go to the World Cup with a price on his head , always assuming he is not snapped up beforehand . |
| 22 | ( Sometimes the discussion of rebirth sounds like Shirley Maclean 's writings on ‘ channelling ’ , though one suspects it is not meant to . ) |
| 23 | Most people when confronted by that kind of thing pretend it is not happening , hide themselves behind newspapers , show an unwarranted fascination in reading advertisements , but these four watched the drunk man 's progress , they seemed to monitor it . |
| 24 | If the communication option of the first process is taken up , the environment can not tell it is not operating the second ( for exactly the same option is present there ) . |
| 25 | I try to pretend it is not happening but I know it is . ’ |
| 26 | The Aston Villa manager , whose team can confirm their new favouritism for the crown by building on a two-point lead at the top , insists he is not fooled by Walker 's apparent concession of the title after Norwich 's 3-0 defeat at Wimbledon on Saturday . |
| 27 | One-time England star Lee , a member of City 's 1968 title-winning side and now a highly successful businessman , insists he is not planning a takeover of the Blues . |
| 28 | Also , the work that most influenced us is not mentioned because it is unknown to the intended audience , and thus would not be persuasively valuable or symbolically meaningful . |
| 29 | Of the children at the copper works it is not indicated precisely how many attended at least some form of educational establishment , though of course many did . |
| 30 | You toss the coin from hand to hand to show it is not gone . |