Example sentences of "that he [is] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And if you explain to Thomas that he 's not to touch things like that , but must come and tell you when he finds one , then he 'll avoid any danger in future . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If you come out and tell a person to his face that he 's not selected and why , ’ I said , ‘ well , it might hurt but at least you know . ’ |
| 3 | I said now there 's three more of us that know that he 's not paying poll tax |
| 4 | It seems there could n't be anyone better qualified to ride motorbikes than Simon Wigg … the only problem is that he 's not qualified … he 's never passed his motorcycle test . |
| 5 | We 're told that he 's not falling behind or there 's no real problem with it . |
| 6 | or even if he , even if he is doing that he 's not gon na , he 's not gon na |
| 7 | Now the Home Office has said , the Home Secretary rather , has said this year that he 's not granting any more policemen this year , but he also said that if county councils wished to fund more policemen , he would certainly look at that . |
| 8 | So Ernie will be very pleased to know that he 's not required to er , star this morning . |
| 9 | Every time he buys me something I think it is proof that he 's not going to kill me or do anything else unpleasant . |
| 10 | Although the cause of the fire is n't yet known , one of the men who owns the farm says that he 's not ruling out an arson attack . |
| 11 | He makes explicit that he is not writing as some individual Messianic figure propounding an individualistic gospel deriving from ‘ the ineffable wisdom of primitive peoples ’ . |
| 12 | It is never the case that a writer creates a hypocrite without giving us some clue , however subtle , to his dissimulation ; and it is seldom the case that he is not exposed within the bounds of the artwork . |
| 13 | At this point in his work , Freud would be much more acceptable to modern thinkers , for he shows that he is not deriving man 's destructiveness from a similar instinct in animals . |
| 14 | The Conservative party is lucky that he is not displaying his intellect on Labour 's Front Bench . |
| 15 | The clearest reflection of the way in which the full implications of Marsh 's book were not appreciated in physical geography is shown in the fact that he is not referred to in relation to the history of the study of landforms before Davis ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) , or in Explanation in Geography ( Harvey , 1969 ) , in Geography Its History and Concepts ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) or in Geography and Geographers : Anglo-American Human Geography ( Johnston , 1979 , 1983a ) . |
| 16 | He is even more adamant that he is not stealing a place that could be filled by an Englishman . |
| 17 | Apart from anything else , that 'll ensure the court that he is not tempted to be involved in any similar incident in the future with is girlfriend . |
| 18 | The suggestion that he is not supporting her while she is receiving benefit can not therefore be taken as positive evidence that their relationship is not comparable to that of husband and wife . |
| 19 | Mr Smith has publicly refused to endorse any of the deputy leadership challengers , insisting that he is not seeking a ‘ running mate ’ . |
| 20 | She makes no acknowledgement of their affair in public and he understands that he is not to refer to it with these new acquaintances . |
| 21 | Somebody 's actually got to do the appointing if you have the , the er er er i i independent members and I do n't think it 's u is unreasonable for my Right Honourable Friend to say that the Home Secretary should do that er provided that he is not seen to have been taking an overtly political view . |
| 22 | Soon the employee learns that he is not getting from the phone calls what he wants and expects . |
| 23 | Like bees buzzing up and down my window pane , the instinct is too deep for such a creature to see or to reason that he is not getting the expected response . |
| 24 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 25 | Rather , the courts have held that it is enough if the constable has a power to act as he does , and that he is not acting illegally in the exercise of that power at the time of the act complained of . |
| 26 | It is important to notice that he is not granted sovereignty . |
| 27 | If the requested State has not filed a declaration under Article 18 , and measures of compulsion are not available by other means under internal law , the request must state that he is not compelled to appear or to give evidence . |
| 28 | confessed to having initially found ‘ prima facie perverse and incomprehensible ’ — was that a police officer is not acting in the execution of his duty if he is doing something that he is not compelled by law to do . |
| 29 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 30 | It aims to secure both that the consumer is not misled and also that he is not left in ignorance of matters of which he should lie informed . |