Example sentences of "he is not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Crawford proves that if he has not buried the Frank Spencer TV image , at least he is not here to praise it . |
| 2 | When Ian Paisley calls the Pope ‘ the Antichrist ’ , he is not just picking a choice term of abuse from the Bible , but referring back to what was once the mainstream Protestant and Anglican belief that the papacy does play one of the most important parts in sacred history and the Romans are absolutely mistaken about which . |
| 3 | He is not even disturbed by the fact that his beard , monocle and considerable size are not always the ideal ambassadorial countenance for delicate first encounters between East and West . |
| 4 | In June his mother enquired about progress only to be told ‘ Why , he is not even thinking of it … so far we know nothing either about the cast or about the libretto ’ . |
| 5 | Why , he is not even wearing respectable clothes ! " |
| 6 | ‘ The stitches are out and he is not even having to use crutches . |
| 7 | ‘ The stitches are out and he is not even having to use crutches . |
| 8 | He is not even denounced by the government . |
| 9 | The impression the debtor seeks to give in his affidavit evidence is that he is not well placed financially . |
| 10 | The best way is to get your mate to weigh it while you re-bait and cast , providing he is not otherwise occupied . |
| 11 | However this still situates " him " in the present with respect to want — he is the object of a desire right now — whereas he is not yet involved as the agent of the event go . |
| 12 | Although he has already scored 13 goals for Aston Villa this season , the 24-year-old striker is self-critical enough to insist he is not yet firing on all cylinders . |
| 13 | Although he has already scored 13 goals for Aston Villa this season , the 24-year-old striker is self-critical enough to insist he is not yet firing on all cylinders . |
| 14 | This is indeed the case here , where the support of the infinitive is made explicit by the pronoun I. The fact that I is the subject of the verb want automatically situates it in time before the event go : the first person is involved in the actualization phase of want in the present but he is not yet represented as involved in going . |
| 15 | Acads had cheerier news on the casualty front , when Rob Wainwright , their international back-row forward , attended training on Thursday , though he is not yet fit to play . |
| 16 | When Aragon asserts that he has become " an entirely new man , he is not simply engaging in literary rhetoric , but referring quite explicitly to social and political events which have had a profound effect on his life-style . |
| 17 | He is not simply presupposed ; he is constantly and actively at work . |
| 18 | He is not easily put off . |
| 19 | Like an angel , he is not easily seen . |
| 20 | You may argue that he is not easily panicked . |
| 21 | It is now suggested that ‘ he does n't know anything about politics ’ — in effect , that he is not medically qualified for his spin-doctoring consultancy . |
| 22 | He is not politely evading it — he is actually thinking about it . |
| 23 | This galloping course will suit his action and he is not badly treated at the weights on his best form . |
| 24 | ‘ He is not badly injured he can walk but obviously , as with all back problems , it hurts a good deal . ’ |
| 25 | But Dickie Arbiter , his spokesman , said : ‘ He is not badly injured he can walk but obviously as with all back problems it hurts a good deal . ’ |
| 26 | He won two handicap hurdles last season over this course and has had two races to tune him up again and he is not badly handicapped . |
| 27 | He is not badly informed here , perhaps because participants had accompanied Emma to Flanders , and his account generally complements and sometimes extends that of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . |
| 28 | The gift will have been one subject to a reservation either because the gift is treated as a class gift to all the discretionary beneficiaries and the donor is one of them ( so he is not entirely excluded from the property ) or , possibly because he has retained a benefit ( there is an ability to benefit him under the terms of the trust deed ) . |
| 29 | I think Imamu takes the most slack when it comes to proving himself because he is always around to hear the people who criticize him , where as although Boo is criticized , he is not there to hear it , seeing as he is locked up inside his house . |
| 30 | He is not down to address the conference at all . |