Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [is] not [verb] " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 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 .
3 Matching the job to the person will ensure that he or she is not overloaded and makes an effective contribution to the enterprise .
4 The first do n't is not to believe that the child is lazy because he or she is not managing to spell .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever .
11 and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes
12 In so doing , any hint of attempted indoctrination , conditioning , manipulation , even influencing and persuading , is misplaced because this dimension can only be grasped in freedom , or it is not grasped at all .
13 Either it is raining or it is not raining .
14 If your hair looks much straighter and flatter than usual the conditioner is either too heavy for your particular type of hair type or it is not washed out properly .
15 While it is a good idea to have something in which you feel confident and comfortable , and which is not getting ‘ tired ’ , it may have disadvantages .
16 There is no escape from it — that Damocles sword of a war on the first day of which all the chartered covenants of princes will be scattered like chaff : a race war which will subject the whole of Europe to devastation by fifteen or twenty million , and which is not raging already because even the strongest of the great military states shrinks before the absolute incalculability of its final result .
17 Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze showed that the USSR had not forgotten the ZOPFAN impulse in informing Sitthi that ‘ there can be no calm or stability in a region in which there exist foreign military bases and which is not protected from the military rivalry of non-regional powers ’ .
18 Any empirical study ( a category to which lexical semantics , as outlined in this book , undoubtedly belongs ) must rest , at some point , on a body of primary data , whose factuality is not questioned , and which is not subjected to further analysis .
19 Following Dressler and Wodak ( 1982 ) he distinguishes phonological variation resulting from connected speech processes from a more general type of linguistic variation which correlates with speaker variables such as sex or social status and which is not restricted to phonological systems .
20 She could do a lot worse — 'e 's a good , steady man and 'e 's not given ti strong drink . ’
21 ‘ But darling , she 's only just eighteen , ’ Nora said to Louise , ‘ and she 's not trained for anything .
22 And she 's not staying tonight cos she 's full of cold and she were n't very good when she come home yesterday er
23 to go with and she 's not gon na pay you
24 She 's got a really nice personality and she 's not gon na be the kind of person to say no I ca n't because I 've got so and so in Saudi
25 and she 's not doing any thing nice to endear herself to the public apart from erm , what gran grandma says that princess Diana spends too much time with aids patients
26 ‘ I 've promised to take Claudia away for the weekend , and she 's not going to let me off it even though we 're so shorthanded .
27 I was always the buffer between the two , I used to say I agree with you dear , I do n't want her to wear nylons , that 's not the point , all her friends are wearing nylons and she 's not going to be the
28 And she 's not going to .
29 just sit there and she 's not allowed to answer back .
30 She 's asked for the icing of off our cake not our cake and she 's not having it .
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