Example sentences of "[conj] he is not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little Paul spends a short time at Mrs Pipchin 's ( on the recommendation of Miss Tox , a former child-boarder ) , where he is not quelled as the others are , but thoroughly discomfits her with his sharp questions and grave stare . |
| 2 | He makes explicit that he is not writing as some individual Messianic figure propounding an individualistic gospel deriving from ‘ the ineffable wisdom of primitive peoples ’ . |
| 3 | It is never the case that a writer creates a hypocrite without giving us some clue , however subtle , to his dissimulation ; and it is seldom the case that he is not exposed within the bounds of the artwork . |
| 4 | At this point in his work , Freud would be much more acceptable to modern thinkers , for he shows that he is not deriving man 's destructiveness from a similar instinct in animals . |
| 5 | The Conservative party is lucky that he is not displaying his intellect on Labour 's Front Bench . |
| 6 | The clearest reflection of the way in which the full implications of Marsh 's book were not appreciated in physical geography is shown in the fact that he is not referred to in relation to the history of the study of landforms before Davis ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) , or in Explanation in Geography ( Harvey , 1969 ) , in Geography Its History and Concepts ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) or in Geography and Geographers : Anglo-American Human Geography ( Johnston , 1979 , 1983a ) . |
| 7 | He is even more adamant that he is not stealing a place that could be filled by an Englishman . |
| 8 | Apart from anything else , that 'll ensure the court that he is not tempted to be involved in any similar incident in the future with is girlfriend . |
| 9 | The suggestion that he is not supporting her while she is receiving benefit can not therefore be taken as positive evidence that their relationship is not comparable to that of husband and wife . |
| 10 | Mr Smith has publicly refused to endorse any of the deputy leadership challengers , insisting that he is not seeking a ‘ running mate ’ . |
| 11 | She makes no acknowledgement of their affair in public and he understands that he is not to refer to it with these new acquaintances . |
| 12 | Somebody 's actually got to do the appointing if you have the , the er er er i i independent members and I do n't think it 's u is unreasonable for my Right Honourable Friend to say that the Home Secretary should do that er provided that he is not seen to have been taking an overtly political view . |
| 13 | Soon the employee learns that he is not getting from the phone calls what he wants and expects . |
| 14 | Like bees buzzing up and down my window pane , the instinct is too deep for such a creature to see or to reason that he is not getting the expected response . |
| 15 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 16 | Rather , the courts have held that it is enough if the constable has a power to act as he does , and that he is not acting illegally in the exercise of that power at the time of the act complained of . |
| 17 | It is important to notice that he is not granted sovereignty . |
| 18 | If the requested State has not filed a declaration under Article 18 , and measures of compulsion are not available by other means under internal law , the request must state that he is not compelled to appear or to give evidence . |
| 19 | confessed to having initially found ‘ prima facie perverse and incomprehensible ’ — was that a police officer is not acting in the execution of his duty if he is doing something that he is not compelled by law to do . |
| 20 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 21 | It aims to secure both that the consumer is not misled and also that he is not left in ignorance of matters of which he should lie informed . |
| 22 | There are four possibilities which need to be covered : ( 1 ) that he is held out as a partner and is liable as such ; ( 2 ) that he is held out as a partner but is indemnified against liability as such ; ( 3 ) that steps are taken to ensure that he is not held out as a partner ; and ( 4 ) that , even though the original intention may have been as at ( 3 ) , he is in fact held out as a partner , either by the firm or by himself acting in the course of his work for the firm , in circumstances not initially contemplated by anyone . |
| 23 | Often the buyer will exercise both remedies at once , i.e. will reject the goods and will also indicate that he is not going on with the contract , e.g. by demanding his money back . |
| 24 | The Minister of Agriculture has said that he is not going to have land set-aside in Britain so that the rest of Europe can produce more' . |
| 25 | Taylor is adamant that he is not going to quit . |
| 26 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 27 | But Mr Rafsanjani is exposed to accusations that he is departing from the policies set out by the leader of Iran 's Islamic revolution , the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and may have seized on the Mujahideen attacks to demonstrate that he is not selling out the imam 's legacy . |
| 28 | ‘ All the same , it is a relief that he is not doing anything further that could upset the delicate balance at this stage . ’ |
| 29 | Peter Monroe , president of the RTC 's supervisory board , said in a recent interview that he has got ‘ a pretty clear message from Congress ’ that he is not running a social service . |
| 30 | He will admit that he is not running just for his own enjoyment , but against himself to see what he can achieve . |