Example sentences of "[pers pn] are not [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though you are not swinging fully , you want the action to feel positive , so eliminate any hand action . |
| 2 | If you are not understood then re-phrase the sentence . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely you are not remembering clearly , ’ I said . |
| 4 | Keep it loose , you are not planting yet ; the purpose is simply to hold the bushes steady , to protect the roots from drying out and keep them in an environment that will encourage them to begin making new growth . |
| 5 | In making demands of a child you need to ensure that the request is appropriate to his or her age and ability , and that you are not expecting too much . |
| 6 | Something ag again you when you 're doing it , in other areas of the industry if you 're not taught the structure you , you are not taught properly , you get these very bad habits and essential thing which is coming out by not following the structure in order I actually wrote down er by missing the business card and the buyer 's guide at the beginning , I was actually I 've got to slip this in somewhere and not listening to what you were saying and some of what you said went straight over my head which is bad because you 're missing things then . |
| 7 | This differs from the previous exercise in that you are not looking directly at skills , but at the theoretical knowledge you require to undertake those skills safely . |
| 8 | For if you are not exercising aerobically using some form of whole body continuous movement ( brisk walking , jogging , cycling ) for 30 minutes at least three to four times a week , then by definition , you are sedentary . |
| 9 | ‘ As you can see , you are not wanted here . |
| 10 | ‘ You see , you are not involved directly , like the others . |
| 11 | If you are keeping strictly to 1,000 calories a day and not shedding surplus fat … then the chances are you are NOT keeping strictly to 1,000 calories a day . |
| 12 | Everything in the National Park is protected : conservation here is absolute , you are not allowed even to pick any of the 400 species of wild flowers that grow in the Pyrenees . |
| 13 | If the board fails to respond to your weight , this is an indication that , either you are not travelling fast enough , or your weight is not far enough back on the board . |
| 14 | If you are not running directly onto the outbound leg , tell ATC before arrival . |
| 15 | If you are not disciplined enough to arrive at the agency as though dressed for work you may not be taken on to the books . |
| 16 | You will find that ease of emphasis comes more readily if you are not standing stiffly to attention while delivering your speech . |
| 17 | If your DSO is around 77 days and your terms are 30 days you are not doing well . |
| 18 | But you are not dying now , and you are not going to die . ’ |
| 19 | A solicitor can help you ensure that you are not paying too much tax and that you claim every allowance to which you are entitled . |
| 20 | Wait for another day if you are not feeling absolutely on top line . |
| 21 | As a junior nurse you may not feel able to assist the patient to rest or sleep — especially if you are not feeling fully at ease yourself ! |
| 22 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
| 23 | Love makes you act in a certain way even — and this is the crunch — when you are not feeling very loving . |
| 24 | The , the minute , the note last time said a pool of cand , they , they will be told that a pool of possible candidat candidates will be contacted to attend for final interview once it 's decided to go ahead with the new appointment , so you could the thr the the three , or whatever it is that you are not putting forward , that their , that our interest in them has ceased |
| 25 | We are not employed just for work — dull , boring , monotonous work . |
| 26 | Does the panel agree that we are not communicating effectively ? |
| 27 | Well I would n't like to move , we are not moving again . |
| 28 | We are not speaking here so much of the kettledrums , which are on a higher artistic plane than the rest of the ‘ kitchen ’ , but with regard to the percussion instruments of indefinite pitch , one should be extremely sparing in their use . |
| 29 | And so we find that , apart from its use with predicate qualifiers , keep can also figure as the verb in an adverbal response to the question What … do to … ? ; as in : ( 36 ) what did the President do to the rebels ? he kept them incarcerated in Castellòn till 1835 Notice the inappropriate relationship of the question with how ? in this case , confirming that we are not dealing here with a predicate qualifier : ( 37 ) how did the President keep the rebels ? |
| 30 | My Lord we are not dealing here er with erm general principals . |