Example sentences of "be not [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not normally a vodka drinker but well , why not , it slipped down very easily with the sardines ! |
| 2 | I am not normally a follower of the daily horoscopes in magazines as I could not see how one small horoscope could possibly influence so many millions of people born under a particular starsign . |
| 3 | While many of the 200 young mothers , grandmothers , shoppers and office workers who drifted into the Women 's Education Day might never have thought of themselves in this light , they probably identified immediately with the cartoon on the fact sheet : ‘ I am not just a housewife , I am an accountant , vet , nurse , negotiator , teacher , cook , red coat , driver … ‘ . |
| 4 | I am not just a snake he said . |
| 5 | ‘ I am not just a child . ’ |
| 6 | I am not just a teacher , I 'm so much more than that ! |
| 7 | ‘ I am not yet a total incompetent , ’ he muttered walking away . |
| 8 | Though I am not particularly a Christian , I thought with sadness of my beloved dead . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not always a villain , ’ he added quietly . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not always a monster who will attack you . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I am not quite the Hochhauser rapist I am made out to be , but I expect a little peck , just here , on the cheek . ’ |
| 12 | Ever since my schooldays , I 've been aware that , mathematically , I am not quite the full shilling . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't have to prove to anyone that I am not only a serve and volleyer . |
| 14 | I am not really a hero , they were only small daysacks , but my fitness surprised me . |
| 15 | I am not really a coward or even a ‘ nervous ’ person . |
| 16 | I am not usually a forward sort of person as you know Elsie but I thought there had been enough talk about death enough of wanting bad bad things so I said why kill it it is not a fish for the pot . |
| 17 | The production itself carefully suppresses those aspects of Shakespeare 's play which suggest that Henry 's endeavours are not somehow the shared desires of the nation — most notably it cuts out any mention of the English traitors in Act II . |
| 18 | Where there is coverage of such systems as potential IT-based contributors to improved corporate strategy , the reference will be to systems that are not normally the province of librarians and information scientists ( such as financial market systems , credit-rating services ) ; or it will be to videotex-based systems which most librarians and information scientists would n't be seen dead using ! ( cf. Prestel ) . |
| 19 | Such piscatorial matters are not normally the column 's province , of course . |
| 20 | Irish singles champions from the NIBA are not exactly a dime a dozen . |
| 21 | First of all , they are not exactly the same now as they were then . |
| 22 | The accounts are not exactly the same . |
| 23 | ‘ It is the first time in 30 years that an international financial institution has been created , and we are not simply a bank , but also a political endeavour . |
| 24 | However , the new approaches are not simply a response to administrative or organizational problems . |
| 25 | Links with the disability movement are not simply a part of the justification of student participation , as argued earlier ; they may also play an important role in change within schools . |
| 26 | The destruction tests are not simply a means for the practitioner to show off his power . |
| 27 | Standardization to take into account the differing age and gender composition of the class groups indicates that the observed variations are not simply an artefact of the differential age and sex composition of the social class groups ( Table 4.12 ) . |
| 28 | The pleasure of the text stems at least in part from collective utopias , social wish fulfillment and social aspirations , and these are not simply the sublimated expression of more basic sexual desires . |
| 29 | Although all these theories flourished during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth , the links between them are not simply the product of historical circumstance . |
| 30 | From this point of view , women are oppressed and victimized ; they are not simply the unlucky recipients of prejudice . |