Example sentences of "be [not/n't] even [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game .
2 The idea of them having to bring fortnightly evidence that they have been looking for work when in the majority of cases they are not even permitted onto premises to ask for a job suggests an obvious indifference on the part of the policy makers .
3 One loch looks very much like any other and some are not even marked on the 1:50,000 map , so always be properly clad and prepared to cope with fickle weather conditions , before setting out .
4 They are not even issued with little gold stars to wear .
5 They know about the misery of people who are unemployed , but are not even counted in the unemployment figures because of the way in which the Government have fiddled those figures .
6 ‘ Leon , you 're not even looking at it . ’
7 Vendors are jury-rigging tests , leaning heavily on the old SpecMarks of the Unix workstation crowd though they 're not even ported to NT .
8 But Johnson they 're often old words that are totally out of use erm and we 're not even used to Johnson 's vocabulary because
9 Is it usual to understand anyone — I 'm not even referring to my enigmatic self — at one 's second meeting ? ’
10 I 'm not even speaking to you because of that flipping letter .
11 I 'm not even looking at you .
12 Slim folk us So I 'm not even looking in their shops any more .
13 It 's evil and forbidden and I 'm not even thinking about it !
14 Yeah , so , so what happens then if they say I 'm not even going to that interview then because I could n't live on it , even with all the other benefits , what happens then ?
15 Aveline , I 'm not even checking for figures there I 'm just looking through , just scanning through , erm I 'm I 'm , I have n't said how we 're gon na check these .
16 What made them so unpopular that they are n't even commemorated in a country name .
17 Talk about jumping the gun — the machines are n't even announced for another three weeks , but Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based Clearpoint Research Corp reckons that there are potential users out there that already realise they ordered too little memory for the things and want to be prepared by having add-on memory ready and waiting on site .
18 Why do we have exams for subjects which we are n't even setted for ?
19 They were not even disturbed by the burning jetties , or the waiting batons of flame and black smoke that fenced the narrowing river beyond them .
20 Even when we were not even looking like fouling them he was giving free kicks against us .
21 Most of those who shouted ‘ Long live Dubcek ’ were not even born in 1968 .
22 Most of those who shouted ‘ Long live Dubcek ’ were not even born in 1968 .
23 To begin with , did you know that these black slaves were not even born in America ?
24 But I 've been surprised over the last erm few years of all these young men erm who have restored this museum who , although were not even born in those years , have taken a tremendous interest in what went on and erm well their results , some of their results you can see here today .
25 They were not even deterred by some afternoon rain but carried on enjoying themselves kitted out in colourful Mickey Mouse ponchos .
26 But they were not even to stay for the rest of that year .
27 But we must accept that these occasional audible signals were not even meant to be heard by all the chorus singers : they were to be heard by the sub-conductor(s) , who would then relay the beat visually .
28 But I would say to each of your listeners I sure you know people who find a tranquility , a centredness , a source of strength and confidence in their religious faith , they are the representatives of what religion can do , not the Ayatollahs , and not the fanatics , and not the people on television , but the people who spend their lives trying to be good and helpful , and one day they 'll look around and realise that happiness has snuck in the back door when they were n't even looking for it .
29 The humans were n't even looking in his direction .
30 In his semi-final Hartlepool 's Mark Chicocki was disqualified after being given three warnings in the last round for leaning on , a decision booed soundly by the crowd and highlighted by the fact that in following bouts boxers who leaned on just as much were n't even spoken to .
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