Example sentences of "be not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not just trying to extol the virtues of a well-managed filtration system , nor should I need to , but this is an actual necessity to maintain Siamese Tigers at their best . |
| 2 | But he added : ‘ I am not just trying to play now so I can force my way into the Cup final team . |
| 3 | Again , I am not just talking about romantic attachments , but also about simple friendships . |
| 4 | ‘ I am not just saying that for effect . |
| 5 | I am not even asked if I want a line . |
| 6 | I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me . |
| 7 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It means , Sir ‘ I am not away to stay away , I am not away to leave you , I am not away to stay away , I shall always come back to see you . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I am not here to lose , ’ he said , never far from the negative response . |
| 11 | And I am not here to lose you readers . ’ |
| 12 | I am not here to defend British Rail 's management decisions — I am usually better at condemning them — but during the passage of the legislation to which my hon. Friend referred earlier , British Rail stated that it had picked the least safe of the 100 crossings to which I have referred . |
| 13 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |
| 14 | I am not here to discuss that now , but I mean it 's just to make sure that you know that things are n't planned for five years or ten years , but possibly for a lot longer than that . |
| 15 | ‘ I am not here to make myself known to the police . |
| 16 | ‘ I am not here to become involved in a controversy , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Of course I am not here arguing for a return to a three-tier model of reality seen in literalistic terms . |
| 18 | I announce that I plan to throw one honey of a tantrum , complete with sound effects and meteorological events , if I am not instantly issued with a remote to keep tabs on my subject . |
| 19 | I am not wholly retracting that , but as Martin Davies said in the speech to which I refer , when questioned about the relationship between NCC and SEAC and our traditional disease . |
| 20 | And I am not longer prepared to put up with the various parasitical fringe groups , ranging from the self-importantly irrelevant to the downright obnoxious , who are an unchanging part of the demo scene . |
| 21 | I am not exactly pushing a supermarket trolley but I make sure I have plenty of apples , bananas and water to keep me going . |
| 22 | I AM NOT FUCKING SHOUTING AND SWEARING . |
| 23 | ‘ You must know that I am not without artifice where magic is concerned , ’ said Weasel . |
| 24 | In opposing human spirit to human force I am not simply setting cognition against physique . |
| 25 | I call this an alternative theory because it seems obvious to me that the committee did think that clause 12 was necessary — and I am not simply referring to the definition of ‘ deception . ’ |
| 26 | But if I claim that my religious experience is experience of God , then I am not simply talking about my own feelings but about a transcendent being that I am claiming my feelings to be feelings of . |
| 27 | That is worth considering , but I am not completely sold on that idea . |
| 28 | And that 's an encouraging line because those of us , and I include myself who am not always articulate , who ca n't always get the , the words together to make a sentence and finish it , can try nevertheless to come up with something which is interesting , can contain the ‘ Hey , this is for you , ’ for the audience , along the lines we 've been talking about yesterday . |
| 29 | ‘ Here , if I am not much mistaken , comes his customer . ’ |
| 30 | He was entirely comfortable with the predictable opinion of the Senior Chief Inspector of Schools who confessed that ‘ I am not much moved by what appears to sacrifice the interests of the few in favour of the many when one result is certain to be that the quality of the person required to fill posts of great importance and of a highly specialized nature is likely to be degraded . ’ |