Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board saying they wanted to sell him will have made him think ‘ Why not , no point hanging round where I 'm not wanted ’ . |
| 2 | For three separate periods I have taken up quarters , each time for several weeks , where I was not known , and as a lodger have shared the lives of people … |
| 3 | I 'm thinking : I 'm not wearing this , or I 'm not wearing that , my leg shows in that ; but it 's funny , it 's only really at parties that I worry about things like that . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me now , or I 'm not going to be able to . ’ |
| 5 | The main doubts about level and standards in higher education probably relate to new or interdisciplinary courses for which the criteria are not well established , or courses which have atypical entrants ( e.g. ‘ unqualified ’ mature students ) or which are not assessed in conventional ways ( e.g. with a heavy reliance on course or project work rather than unseen examinations ) . |
| 6 | Bill : I do n't know if anybody feels they have , but this is a thing which I felt was central to the gay movement of the seventies and I think I would go so far as to say that I assume that most of my close friends feel , like Mark , that it 's fine to have special relationships but it is n't fine to have ones where you are n't allowed to have anything else and also that there 's nothing more deadly to a relationship when you are trying desperately not to have it off with anybody else because you feel guilty about it . |
| 7 | That 'll teach you , gilgul , trying to tag along where you 're not wanted . |
| 8 | Where you 're not buying from a trader , you 're buying from an ordinary member of the public . |
| 9 | You know , I , I maintain if you 're gardening you 're thinking about work , or you 're not thinking about watering or whatever you should be doing in gardening . |
| 10 | The weather 's a bit grotty or you know , or you 're not feeling too good , it 's easier to get a car , you know , to get a lift in with someone . |
| 11 | Or you 're not allowed |
| 12 | Or you 're not going to Lee Ann 's . |
| 13 | Get her back on or she 's not having this I 'm sorry about that hang on just a minute block your ears I 'm just going to spin round again okay hang on oops er are you their Rachael are you there ? |
| 14 | If you do n't tell him it though and you assume he 's gon na to pick it up just by looking at your eyes he 's not going to or she 's not going to pick it up . |
| 15 | Matching the job to the person will ensure that he or she is not overloaded and makes an effective contribution to the enterprise . |
| 16 | The first do n't is not to believe that the child is lazy because he or she is not managing to spell . |
| 17 | The Board is obliged to publicise the escrow account the balance of which is paid to the person if he or she is not convicted or at the end of the five year period . |
| 18 | From birth , the baby and infant imbibes moral values and learns to control instinctual wishes so that he or she is not chastised by parents , or other agents of socialization . |
| 19 | If one suppresses the name , one does not suppress the rest of what is reported , so it is reported that someone , or perhaps more than one person who has been defamed , has done something in the course of the case and it may be that he or she is not known to the public and is of no interest to the public . |
| 20 | However , as with every part of the curriculum , there is a wider perspective to be taken into account , and that is the fact that there is a limit on what an individual teacher can achieve if he or she is not working in harmony with the rest of the school . |
| 21 | But for the average home-owner to find good taste cheaply , displayed informally , and feel certain that he or she was not making a mistake because it was already arranged and coordinated , was quite new to Parisians . |
| 22 | ‘ He means , ’ said Rita , slowly , in her loud classroom voice , ‘ anyone could walk in as long as he or she were not carrying a package that did look suspicious . ’ |
| 23 | While individuals may be seeking : ( 1 ) freedom to advance their careers by moving on to other firms , but " job security " in the meanwhile ; ( 2 ) payment , on death or retirement , of the full value of their partnership shares ( including capital contributions , undrawn profits , goodwill etc ) ; and ( 3 ) upon death and/or retirement from practice , financial security for themselves and their families , the firm 's priorities in the interests of preserving profitability are likely to be concentrated on : ( 1 ) the need to impose restrictions on the freedom of partners to leave without adequate notice and/or thereafter to compete with the firm ; ( 2 ) the ability to remove from the firm any partner who has failed to meet proper professional standards who is disruptive or who is not seen to be pulling his weight ; and ( 3 ) the need to minimise the strain on the firm 's finances when a partner leaves whilst recognising a certain moral responsibility towards the family of a deceased partner . |
| 24 | Where we are not dealing solely with our own affairs but forming general preferences as to the kind of society we would like to live in , the main pleasures and pains we are concerned with are precisely these pleasures and pains of sympathy . |
| 25 | If my girlfriend f—s somebody else , or if I f— somebody else , or we 're not getting along , it 's always my reaction to write about things . |
| 26 | just pure inset , and just headquarters , that 's all they 're interested in , not whether he knows his job or not , not whether he could give advice because he has no control over whatever comes into that shop , he does n't decide we 're not having these T-shirts in or , or we 're not having these suits in because really they 're a load of rubbish , headquarters decides it , all he does is put a nice little display out , usually , and it 's shown how to do it by headquarters and so on , these people come round and show them what to do and so on , do all that , in fact he 's as much expertise in there as I have or you have , anybody could literally with a bit of training in the company way of doing things |
| 27 | Everything here at the college is geared up for those with no sight , or very little , which really does help because it prepares you for University training really , where they are n't geared up for you . |
| 28 | The obligations , particularly where they are not funded by a scheme financially independent of the company , carry very significant deferred tax implications . |
| 29 | All young people are at risk where they are not wanted , despised or feared . |
| 30 | In rural areas the house drains , where they are not connected to sewers , are directed into enclosed tanks called cess pools or into septic tanks . |