Example sentences of "n't [v-ing] to be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And I said smoothly that of course I did , for I was n't going to be inveigled into an emotional uproar .
2 I mean this coal tip is is n't going to be based on what I said a moment or two ago with it 's thirty million tons of coal covering nearly three hundred and fifty acres a bit of a monster .
3 Stuck in a cell , the light on twenty-four hours a day , at least the battery chicken was n't going to be fooled into thinking well of people .
4 ‘ I managed to get clear at Metropole but then Mick came up beside me at the Juniper chicane but I was n't going to be beaten at this stage and I just managed to hold on . ’
5 It is n't going to be defeated by watching C&C Music Factory or Sabrina Johnston or marky Mark going through the same tired MTV moves .
6 Erm and i also need to be concerned that the health authority I think is claiming that this merger will actually give them a better erm size population for research purposes for for purchasing , however , I think that it may well be that particular health needs , people in West Essex and Harlow in particular which has , for example , a rapidly ageing population and therefore needs facilities had not been planned into the town by way of health erm , that those statistics , those pockets of need are going to get overlooked in a much more large and vast disparate statistical picture , stretching from Hertfordshire right across to the coast I think it 's too big a sample and we need to make sure that our specific needs are n't going to be overlooked in all that .
7 ‘ One or two working party members felt there was no point in taking as many students on to courses if the practice placements were n't available and their skills were n't going to be needed in the new world . ’
8 The majority had no wish to stop work , particularly after the great strides which had been made in recent months , but they were n't going to be sat on either .
9 Jess was n't going to be left with the eyes of all the dead Jarmans ( if that 's who they were ) looking down on her from their elaborate gold-framed portraits .
10 I felt if I mentioned them [ the symptoms ] they 'd think I was skiving or malingering or being a hypochondriac or neurotic , and I was n't going to be labelled as those things . ’
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