Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [pron] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | committee and that on behalf of West Sussex as a whole , we should grasp that responsibility , make it clear and I 'm not talking about the emergency arrangements which we 're coping with quite adequately it seems to me erm but I 'm talking about the coordination and overview of all the er contributing factors erm so that we can demonstrate that there is ultimately one body who can take er a view of these matters er ensure that there are not grey areas in future and to er initiate er action wherever it may be dealt with necessary . |
| 2 | If you have never experienced this , try it out for yourself one day when your mind is calm and you are not with companions who will ridicule you or otherwise disturb your peace of mind . |
| 3 | How a fish decides what is edible and what is not is fairly simply explained . |
| 4 | To crash a plane into Beckindale around about the anniversary of Lockerbie it is n't funny at all it 's not funny and it 's not clever . |
| 5 | I served an apprenticeship , worked hard and now I am in the wrong and it is not my fault . |
| 6 | One prisoner writes of another in his block : ‘ He has an IQ that 's slightly above freezing temperature Fahrenheit but he knows that he was wrong and he is not as dumb as he wants people to believe . |
| 7 | But then again Irene and Fred 's old and they 're not like that . |
| 8 | You must remember that she was still hardly five years old and it is not easy for somebody as small as that to score points against an all-powerful grown-up . |
| 9 | Cos I 've got one in my car that 's over two years old and there 's not a , you know nobody 's written anything on it or anything . |
| 10 | The language is distinct and self-contained and it is not dependent on an established programming language . |
| 11 | ‘ How dare you make speeches to me about what 's proper and what 's not ? |
| 12 | If obscenity laws were really about sexual conformity , their Report continued , then ‘ no Royal Commission could … draw an intelligible line between what is acceptable and what is not acceptable … [ nor could ] such a Commission find any evidence that anyone has been corrupted or … depraved by pornography ’ . |
| 13 | It is not easy to set standards for what is acceptable and what is not in terms of production expertise and technical quality . |
| 14 | Religion has given structure to what is acceptable and what is not acceptable in our lives and even those who claim that they do not believe in God , abide by these rules . |
| 15 | As riders and trainers we must explain to the horse what is acceptable and what is not . |
| 16 | Cooperation overrides competitions as group norms or behaviours codes develop around how the task is performed , what behaviours are acceptable and what are not , what sanctions will be used for deviants . |
| 17 | Perhaps there was something wrong but it was not that serious . |
| 18 | Every time you say that , what you really seem to mean is that there 's a hell of a lot wrong but you 're not prepared to discuss it . ’ |
| 19 | The grant-aid earned under the new Regulations was adequate but it was not generous and although class programmes were extended to new centres and programmes expanded in existing branches , the costs of provision also increased and the District required overdraft facilities until 1950 when a small surplus was secured . |
| 20 | He 's , he 's funny but it 's not , cos if Ryan 's , he 's not going to get anywhere , because he 's just a little shit , basically . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's already one other couple interested but I 'm not sure it 's such a good idea to have just two couples . |
| 22 | He should be brown but he 's not . |
| 23 | Your logic is sound but I 'm not feeling very logical at the moment . |
| 24 | He may be old but he 's not stupid . |
| 25 | Only John of Ferentino , who acted for Innocent as a notary when subdeacon , was made a cardinal but he was not given the title of chancellor . |
| 26 | Er er the principle was that erm th the birth of a child is , it is painful but it 's not a pain too much for a mother to bear , that was the , the id the principle that they went on . |
| 27 | She felt light-headed and it was not just the swift change from lying down to standing . |
| 28 | A chargeable transfer is a transfer of value which is made by an individual and which is not an exempt transfer ( an exempt transfer would be , for example , a transfer to a spouse which comes within IHA 1984 , s18 or a transfer which comes within the annual exemption of £3,000 contained in s19 of that Act ) . |
| 29 | Moses and Monarchism is not one of those books of Freud as I expect you to read for this course , I mean I expect you to read things like Civilization 's Discontents and so on because they 're , they 're kind of central and they 're not very large books , they 're clearly er focused on our subject but erm it would be I think a little bit unreasonable for me to expect you to read this one , although , er I 'd quite like you to I mean some ways erm it 's a fascinating book , erm my guess is if it , if you do n't hate it , you 'd probably quite like it . |
| 30 | Whilst the venue on this occasion was central and it was not the first time the A.G.M. had been held on a Friday evening , the Committee appreciates that perhaps the idea of holding the Meeting on the evening before the Dinner Dance to enable those travelling to London to attend both events was not a good one . |