Example sentences of "be not [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I was given the opportunity to have a rehearsal with him but I declined because I am not like the professionals who can rehearse in detail and then put it over as fresh as a daisy when the time comes .
2 ‘ I am not in the counsels of bishops and archbishops .
3 When even the milkmen and the postmen are not on the streets , he sets off for his daily three hour run , then swims for an hour before finally starting his day 's work as a leather goods salesman .
4 ( If they are not on the shelves , you can always request them on inter-library loan . )
5 The Code provides that the search should be discontinued if it is clear that the goods are not on the premises unless the police have the right to continue the search under different power .
6 Well quite obviously if you are going to curtail something like that , some of those who had been on the police authorities will now find that they are not on the police authority and therefore that causes understandable anxiety and therefore rumpus .
7 Indeed , such communications are not without the deceivers and manipulators , as in all walks of life .
8 The best-fit results using history 1 imply climate sensitivities below the accepted range , but they are not beyond the bounds of possibility .
9 Many of the issues that women seek to raise are not in the interests of men .
10 They were extremely impressed by what he said and were buoyed up by his message that the Government are determined to ensure that the proposals on reform of the common agricultural policy are strongly resisted because they are not in the interests of Scotland 's farmers .
11 You d the other darts are not in the bits she 's given you ?
12 But men are not in the hands of blind fate , for karma speaks not only of the actions and thoughts of the past as explaining a man 's present condition or character , but also as creative of the future .
13 There are those which are not unlike the polytechnics both because they offer a very high percentage of advanced work and also because they are almost as big .
14 Thus , the issue can be joined as human beings are not like the objects of physical science and therefore can not be quantified , that human action is concerned with meaning , reasons , intentions and understandings and this , therefore , is an interpretative matter rather than a phenomenon subject to causal explanation , that qualitative studies are not really scientific , and so on .
15 I hope they are not like the ones we found in the store , still a bit alive .
16 To sum this up , the ‘ rules ’ of talk are not like the rules for solving equations or constructing syllogisms .
17 They are not like the cynics of the '60s , nor the defeatists of the '70s .
18 But we 're not on the flats in the daytime ,
19 But he wo n't come in Wrexham now they 're not on the wards much .
20 Apparently when they 're not on the lines , there 's .
21 Well then you 're going across , you 're not staying st er you 're not on the pavers are you ?
22 No , we 're not on the tea-bags this week ,
23 Cos we 're not at the pictures
24 No we 're not in the woods proper here .
25 We 're not from the estates .
26 Erm but this is more or less , indigenous within the engineering industry , there is even inherent within an engineering mind , and I 'm not with the planners or the technical experts , but even in the ordinary lay engineer , he looks to be able to do the job more efficiently , with the materials that he has in hand er and possibly introduce a new type of tool if he can get the proper material , and likewise the employer was doing the same thing .
27 well your mum said to me well I 'll tell you the same as I 've told Con but I said I 'm not against the children or anything the children
28 ‘ No , of course I 'm not from the police .
29 I 'm not in a police cell .
30 Just say I 'm not in a babies class at twelve .
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