Example sentences of "not [verb] it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not just ignorance , but arrogance ; you do not think it is going to happen to you . |
| 2 | On the other question , new temples were not built on the Acropolis until after the middle of the century ( a ‘ Cimonian Parthenon ’ appears to me a mare 's nest , and even its proponent does not think it was begun before the sixties ; below , p. 93 ) . |
| 3 | I booked the conference not realising it was gon na be the control room by this time , and then this morning I turned up to find out we ca n't put the lights on without getting behind the bar , and we ca n't get behind the bar so that 's why this er |
| 4 | yeah , I 'm not suggesting it was done wickedly , and deliberately , I 'm suggesting with hindsight it 's sloppy and , and uncomfortably misleading , you follow the point do n't you ? |
| 5 | At the other end of the scale they quite often roll just beneath the surface , and if the water is choppy you will not know it is happening . |
| 6 | Krabbe and two other German women runners had admitted taking the drug Clenbuterol , but claimed they did not know it was banned . |
| 7 | His eyes filled , but he did not know it was happening , this overflowing , until I reached down , wiped his face , showed him my wet fingers which he dried with his own . |
| 8 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 9 | On the one hand , you wanted to play down the sleaze factor , not let it be thought that you 'd been involved with hundreds of men , that you slept with just anyone . |
| 10 | We are not pretending it 's taking place today . |
| 11 | Although I knew it was badly sprained I did not feel it was broken . |
| 12 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 13 | I cried and laughed and stared and could not believe it was happening . |
| 14 | One part of her could not believe it was happening , and perhaps that was why she did not resist . |
| 15 | Friends were able to find an alternative , but for a few moments Marilyn said she could not believe it was happening to her and looked about for the dreaded Jeremy Beadle . |
| 16 | But the embalmers are gaining ground fast , probably because the public does not realize it is happening . |
| 17 | It 's a bird does not entail It is adapted for flight |
| 18 | The semblance of UPH not owning it was created by allowing Smyth to put his nominees onto the board of Chestvale after he gave an undertaking to put the loan notes in place . |
| 19 | That such care may well characterize those activities which Scruton declares can not possess it is suggested by Andrew Lumsden 's appropriately passing remark on the casual , anonymous sexual encounter : ‘ for now I can only generalize : as I 've known it , men are never so peaceful , so unviolent ( physically and emotionally ) , so graceful with each other ( no matter how ‘ crude' ’ the act ) as they are — as we are — when content to take each other without the addition of names , or beds , or flats , or even of any clear impression of one-another 's looks ' ( Gay News , 235 ( Mar. 1982 ) , 17 ) . |
| 20 | We are not saying it is fixed in concrete . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not saying it 's going to be easy , giving all this up , I mean . |
| 22 | In the words of one politician , ‘ given that the major public utilities are under constant political attack , it is in the interests of the chairmen to have the minister broadly defending the industry and not letting it be known in the ways the minister has at his disposal that he basically agrees with the critics ’ ( fieldnotes ) . |
| 23 | Although not defined it is considered that the definition used in other Acts will apply ie. ‘ Includes any place to which the public have access , whether on payment or otherwise ’ . |
| 24 | Whether I pay or go free , whatever the cost , I will not let it be said I killed a decent man to keep him from accusing me . |
| 25 | But the absence of public apprehension over corporate crime does not justify it being ignored by criminologists ; rather , it should justify creating a publicity campaign to create an awareness of corporate crime . |
| 26 | Throughout the campaign he was deeply absorbed with the plight of the hostages in Teheran and when they were not released it was seen as a personal failure . |
| 27 | er they also brought out some a good range of lighting fittings er , which you still see about again used well I , I remember putting one , you saying about putting lights at different levels , erm a staircase which was in a new house which was architect design and built and erm , the staircase was er more or less centrally in the house rather than be stuck against one wall and so it had a well and down the centre of the well we strung one of these lights with er five different glasses suspended on black flex five black flexes and erm these were shades made of heavy glass er the glass was n't painted it was coloured all the way through , er and erm they were called er Chelsea , Chelsea glasswork and erm these each had a lamp inside them well er about three inch diameter cylinders actually about eight inches long and they were hung at different heights er so that the lip behind the staircase and also of course there 's a staircase being where it was , it was in the centre of er , a , quite a large hallway for modern stand for modern standards and erm it of course was a feature of the hall as well . |
| 28 | I do n't think it is going as fast as it can . |
| 29 | And any government which is going to be formed in the centre I do n't think it is going to last for too long . |
| 30 | But I think out of this we 'll all look back you know and things , I mean it 's a bit of a cliche , but er it 's not gon na be the same again I do n't think it is gon na be the same again in Blaenau I think people have changed . |