Example sentences of "he is not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We want to give him the chance to tell us how this strong criticism of him is not justified . |
| 2 | As for rearing the child in a laboratory , the unit prepared for him is not equipped with bunsen burners and retorts and animal cages . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | He is not suggesting that it is ‘ thought ’ that is the main determining force . |
| 5 | Nor , said Thomas Gisborne in 1795 , must he himself disdain to borrow money at the appropriate moment if he is not to put his credit to real and serious hazard . |
| 6 | When Hilton talks about meditation , therefore , he is not using the word as a Christian would use it today . |
| 7 | They live in perpetual hope of persuading some head of chambers to take them in when a vacancy occurs ; meanwhile , to confer with a client they can only occupy someone else 's desk , by his good grace , when he is not using it . |
| 8 | Now the medical association are taking the Argentinian , Miguel Pereira , to court because he is not authorised to practise in Chile , and the country 's flyweight champion and former world title challenger , Alli Galvez , has begun a hunger strike to defend his right to work . |
| 9 | But when Colin Mackenzie , regional director of Fairclough Civil Engineering , a main contractor on the project , talks about a ‘ hard-nosed bunch ’ he is not referring to his men . |
| 10 | A way round this hearsay evidence is for the officer to say ‘ The passenger Mr. Jones says he is not licensed to drive this car so I am reporting you ( the defendant ) for quitting a vehicle ’ etc . |
| 11 | Little Paul spends a short time at Mrs Pipchin 's ( on the recommendation of Miss Tox , a former child-boarder ) , where he is not quelled as the others are , but thoroughly discomfits her with his sharp questions and grave stare . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He is a special category of senior civil servant whom a minister can send into temporary retirement and replace with another if he is not felt to share the minister 's party political affiliation . |
| 14 | ‘ He is not acting in the best interests of national heritage . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Where the contract is between a businessman and a party who is not a businessman , usually a consumer , it seems from s 1(3) ( a ) that the businessman will incur " business liability " ( and hence is caught by s 2(1) ) , while the other party can not incur " business liability " , since by definition he is not acting in the course of a business , and therefore will not be caught by the section . |
| 17 | He is not detained . |
| 18 | Yet he is not to die : at the very last moment the image jumps slightly and then we note Custer 's singular absence at the centre of the famous circle , which at that moment begins to break up . |
| 19 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 20 | But … he is not moved … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ He is not objecting and neither am I , ’ Felipe said quietly . |
| 24 | He is not looking for people who can make decisions for him , but people through whom he can implement his decisions . |
| 25 | He is not looking forward to Christmas and Sophie 's second birthday on January 15 . |
| 26 | But the co-ordinator of the elderly peoples ' service development programme Paul Cousins says he is not looking for uniformity . |
| 27 | When he is not looking over a sea of grain , is overlooking the sea ! |
| 28 | The topic he is speaking on is one which interests him greatly ( much more so than his own lecture topic ) but it is also one on which he is not recognised as an authoritative speaker . |
| 29 | ‘ If he is not invited to remain as our candidate I will resign . |
| 30 | He describes how he is not invited to a ball at Harrington but waits in the terrace garden to see ‘ Maud ’ afterwards : |