Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not doing this to provoke . |
| 2 | ‘ I am not doing anything . |
| 3 | ‘ I am not doing what I ought to do , ’ he kept saying to himself . |
| 4 | I am not doing what I ought to do . |
| 5 | I am not doing so badly at all . ’ |
| 6 | Well , said Abrams , almost visibly squirming , he was not in his department , and things are not done that way . |
| 7 | The estates then come to be seen as ‘ ghetto ’ , ‘ sink ’ or ‘ residual ’ estates , where no one wants to live , where the repairs are not done , and only people who have no chance of being offered anywhere better are forced to live . |
| 8 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 9 | The eggs are not done yet . |
| 10 | if I have to wait for you I 'll wait forever cos your eggs are not done |
| 11 | These suggestions are not to do with changing your personality , they are concerned with your behaviour . |
| 12 | Fashion is represented by photographs by Bruce Weber which are not to do with selling clothes but with creating a style — which is , in other pictures , harnessed to fashion . |
| 13 | They are not to do with whether we 're Catholic or Protestant , they 're more to do with whether we 're open or closed sort of people , whether we are willing to risk new ideas and the challenge of our old ones , or whether we want to scuttle away into our little corners and keep what we 've got . |
| 14 | People tend to think , because they are not doing sums on paper they are not learning maths — but they are . ’ |
| 15 | If you do n't do that efficiently then you are not doing a good job for the community . |
| 16 | But as an ex-Immigration Officer told the magazine Race Today ( June 1973 ) ‘ If you do n't show a good record in refusing people it is thought you are not doing your job properly . ’ |
| 17 | If they are not doing something ( like having a comic scratch ) , their faces supply the action . |
| 18 | If the box is overfull , then the overdrive seals are having to cope with excessive quantities of oil and are not doing so . |
| 19 | We are not doing that ; with our new standards they represent as good a risk as any house . |
| 20 | For example , if you have decided that it is essential for your long term plan to learn about computers then every moment that you are not doing this activity is a wrong use of your time . |
| 21 | There were some quite sharp interchanges which unfortunately are still there in the literature and I fear are not doing an awful lot of good . |
| 22 | It will be said that we are not doing justice to the viewpoint of the opposing group . |
| 23 | The state assumes that they are not doing so and gives increases on all of the additional pension as if you had never been contracted out . |
| 24 | ‘ In a democracy , that is very dangerous , because at the end of the day ministers are elected to take responsibility and if they fail in that , they are not doing their duty . |
| 25 | We are not doing well — the point of the passage seems to elude the class . |
| 26 | This may be because they are not working full-time or are not doing jobs which make full use of their abilities . |
| 27 | The only problem is that we are not doing enough of it and in the right way . |
| 28 | If the established players are not doing it , I will give the youngsters a chance to show they can . |
| 29 | The one area where we are not doing as much as we think we should is the Midlands ; that is why we are opening there . ’ |
| 30 | If your DSO is around 77 days and your terms are 30 days you are not doing well . |