Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I belatedly realized I was not looking at a reproduction . |
| 2 | ‘ What 's the matter , Claudia — just realised I 'm not Garry ? ’ |
| 3 | Surprisingly , I found I was not acting . |
| 4 | This situation arose when a Prime Minister died in office or resigned for personal reasons , that is to say , when a vacancy occurred which was not accompanied by any change in the position of the parties . |
| 5 | Yet the choreography is by a Russian who studied among the Spanish peasants and worked out his design with the help of a particular peasant , a natural dancer , whose passion for dance was such that his life ended tragically when he found he was not to perform in the ballet . |
| 6 | When the accident occurred he was not wearing a safety belt . |
| 7 | made at the moment , but I was erm Gemma came for tea last night and she wears glasses she 's long sighted in one eye and er , anyway I noticed she 's not wearing them as much now , so I said to her mum what 's happening ? |
| 8 | She fell asleep for a short time but it was about 3am that Mr and Mrs Phillips noticed she was not breathing , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 9 | But she was to experience yet more joy , since it seemed they were not to go back to their hotel straight away . |
| 10 | This section ( 1 ) disqualifies persons in certain trades from acting in any way as a member of a board , ( 2 ) disqualifies a person holding a disqualifying interest in a company from taking part in proceedings in which the company is an applicant or an objector , ( 3 ) disqualifies an employee of a licence holder under the Act , and any person engaged in a business dealing with alcoholic liquor , including the directors , officers and employees of companies engaged in such businesses from acting as a member of a licensing board , ( 4 ) disqualifies a member of a board , who is the owner or tenant of premises , from acting in the granting of a certificate in respect of those premises , ( 5 ) makes it an offence to contravene the section , ( 6 ) declares , subject to the proviso ( that the grant of a new licence is not liable to objection on the ground that one or more of the members of the board who granted it were not qualified to act ) , anything done in contravention of the section void , and ( 7 ) exempts members of a committee to determine the distribution of licences in a new town from disqualification for being members of a board by reason of their membership of the committee . |
| 11 | Blanche noticed he was not rubbing his hands together : a sure sign that he had something of significance to impart . |
| 12 | It was held that when the first vehicle parked it was not done so ‘ as to cause ’ an unnecessary obstruction . |
| 13 | Campbeltown took the brunt of the shot and shell , her captain — Lieutenant-Commander S. ( Sam ) H. Beattie RN — blinded by search-lights yet making last-minute corrections to her course when a rift in the smoke showed she was not heading for the caisson , still 700 yards upriver . |
| 14 | Police confirmed they were not treating the fire as suspicious . |
| 15 | A spokesman at the fire and rescue centre in Chambery , which co-ordinates rescue services for the Savoy region , confirmed they were not notified until 4.40pm . |
| 16 | A spokesman at the fire and rescue centre in Chambery , which co-ordinates rescue services for the Savoy region , confirmed they were not notified until 4.40pm . |
| 17 | Several of the care assistants working at the homes were angered because they claimed they were not told what was happening . |
| 18 | And Scotland Yard confirmed it was not getting involved . |
| 19 | Abbey Life claimed it was not making a political statement or dealing in anti-Labour propaganda . |
| 20 | He claimed he was not given a fair hearing . |
| 21 | They realised we were not going to budge until the plan was implemented . |
| 22 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 23 | If I ask somebody stuck you 're not gon na go why . |
| 24 | Despite his deadpan expression , Polly sensed he was not referring solely to the wine . |
| 25 | I could n't sleep or eat for thinking about it but I decided I was not going to be beaten by AIDS . ’ |
| 26 | ( Contractors ) Ltd [ 1972 ] 3 All ER 557 ( CA ) the question arose whether profits lost in consequence of physical damage were alone recoverable , or whether profits lost which were not related to physical damage were also recoverable . |
| 27 | McLeish decided he was not going to get much more out of this and went on to check , gently , what Francis Morgan had done with the weekend . |
| 28 | If women could enjoy sex as much as men , as the report affirmed , then the implication was that they always should and those who realized they were not achieving Kinsey 's statistical norm of orgasm soon asked themselves why not ? |
| 29 | As these teachers realized they were not to get the major posts of responsibility , that their objective career progression had come to an end , that their own subject expertise was being compared unfavourably with that of their colleagues from former grammar schools , and that they were to be allocated the ‘ dirty work ’ of teaching the lower-ability groups in the lower streams — they formed a staff counterculture which set about resisting the initiatives of the head , and they withdrew that commitment and enthusiasm in the classroom that had previously been a major part of their secondary modern identity : |
| 30 | Having felt pain , I knew I was not dreaming , and I wondered if I had gone mad , though the fact that I had hallucinated , and had shown myself to have such a naive view of God , would be sufficient proof for some . |