Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are not telling me the truth . ’ |
| 2 | We are not told who the petitioner is . |
| 3 | I you see you 're not exceeding what the government is establishing as your target level , you 're falling short of that , and that means that some people will not get services that they would get if you had gone up to the level . |
| 4 | ‘ You know you 're not telling me the truth , Barbara , ’ said Cardiff , shining the torch in her direction now that Jimmy Devlin 's torches arrangement was lighting up the basement like the stage of some avant-garde theatre . |
| 5 | They 're not doing what the workers want . |
| 6 | Now they 're not giving us the time to make . |
| 7 | The young people we surveyed felt completely let down by teachers and parents who are n't giving them the facts of life . |
| 8 | But if anyone said that Christianity was n't going to cost you anything , they were not telling you the full story . |
| 9 | But they were NOT told what the bug was — or that other babies were affected . |
| 10 | This is not to denigrate what the Six did achieve economically and politically during the first few years of the organisation . |
| 11 | Jack is not bothered what the tree looks like because it is not good enough to eat . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course , it is not known who the kidnappers of Mr McCarthy are , so we are interested to know why you came to the Government of Iran for help . ’ |
| 13 | It is not known who the Islay Correspondent was but the date line was always at Port Ellen . |
| 14 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 15 | No Alan 's not given me the go ahead really to , to do . |
| 16 | It 's not to make you the greatest soul winner . |
| 17 | ‘ I think it all caught up with me : Corrections , Police — and you build up these defences within yourself and you have to pull away because you know : Wait a minute man , it 's not hitting me the way it used to , I 'm not jumping into it . |
| 18 | Dr Neil — he 's Stair Cochrane 's younger brother — he works for the poor in an East End practice — ’ Her voice almost broke when she said his name , and her mama knew immediately that Sally-Anne was not telling them the whole truth about her East End adventures . |
| 19 | But Donald , to judge from the size of the congregation - they were three deep in the aisles and old Mr Donovan from 21b ( ‘ I fought two wars for you lot ’ ) had to wait outside the double doors — Donald was not experiencing what the French sociologist called the Lonely Death . |
| 20 | ‘ As wholesalers we felt that Billingsgate was not offering us the facilities we needed , ’ he explains . |
| 21 | Morris suddenly felt tired ; the doctored wine was not giving him the uplift he needed . |