Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consistent with this , the results of recent research on Kuwait oil fires indicate that the smoke did not appear to be rising high enough to reach the stratosphere , where transport may occur over considerable distances with soot particles remaining for months . |
| 2 | Inside Cambodia , Khmer Rouge guerrillas do not appear to be planning any big offensives against the towns . |
| 3 | And the Liverpool Society warns of the threat of external interference if the profession is not seen to be demonstrating effective self-regulation . |
| 4 | If you are not going to be carrying heavy weights over rough ground , a range of very lightweight boots becomes available for those short excursions into the country . |
| 5 | I hope you 're not going to be feeling mean about it you know because |
| 6 | Sir Patrick Mayhew , the latest incumbent of this difficult office , is not thought to be expecting any great political breakthrough . |
| 7 | They later realized , however , that there was a much more general class of Friedmann-like models that did have singularities , and in which the galaxies did not have to be moving any special way . |
| 8 | Users in this group were not known to be taking any drug other than cannabis ( though , like any drug user , they may have taken other drugs without official knowledge of this ) . |
| 9 | The fog had fallen overnight and did not seem to be showing any sign of becoming less thick . |
| 10 | For strict conventionalism gives only the negative advice that judges must not pretend to be deciding such cases on legal grounds . |