Example sentences of "[be] [not/n't] [verb] [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not spreading or sagging , the glow of an early sun tan had probably removed a year or two and I 've discovered that lipstick does wonders , but there could have been little doubt in his mind that I was closer in age to his mother than to him . |
| 2 | ‘ We are not thinking or talking about the past , ’ he insisted . |
| 3 | Make certain that you are not disturbed when making a call and that there is the minimum of background interference . |
| 4 | Notice boards must be large enough to ensure that displayed items are not overlapping and obscuring one another . |
| 5 | Elections are not seen as providing a pathway to power . |
| 6 | These situations and circumstances are not seen as operating as ‘ causes ’ , in a determinist sense , but as offering incentives or disincentives that will have some degree of probability of influencing the direction in which the choices are made . |
| 7 | Mourning and depression are not seen as overlapping through different processes ; rather , early loss or bereavement actually produces the vulnerability to psychiatric disorder ( which may not necessarily be depression ) . |
| 8 | ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch . |
| 9 | Today 's vagrants , squatting under railway arches and in shop doorways , are not regarded as having strayed from anywhere . |
| 10 | The database administrator may choose to optimise the performance of some query type which is posed frequently , but these considerations are not made when building the data model . |
| 11 | This is not just a matter of showing that you are not stealing or plagiarising other people 's work . |
| 12 | The four circles are not presented as dealing with quite separate topics , such that to move from one to another would be in any sense a change of subject , but rather as four equally fundamental and interlocking dimensions of the same ground-motif that runs throughout : that Jesus Christ is the actualisation and realisation in time and history of God 's eternal decision to be God for and with man ; he is himself the everlasting covenant of God with us , and in that covenant the meaning and purpose of the created universe itself is contained ; and in him too lies the uncovering and overcoming of man 's estrangement from God by the divine ‘ No ! ’ of the cross which leads on to the ‘ Yes ! ’ of the resurrection . |
| 13 | It is essential that links are not lost when maintaining pointers . |
| 14 | Er we are not required or intending to look at objections which have been submitted on other aspects of the structure plan . |
| 15 | They are not condemning or denouncing this from the pulpit , ’ said Mr Greer . |
| 16 | If they start to fall beneath their percentile band then they are not growing or gaining weight at the expected rate and it is important to try to determine why this is happening . |
| 17 | After all , normal children , who are not identified as having language problems , show considerable variation with respect to the overall speed of language development and in terms of the relationship between the structural , semantic and functional features ( Brown 1973 ; Lieven 1978 ; Nelson 1973 ) . |
| 18 | The results are expected to show whether these motivational styles are more prevalent amongst pupils with learning and behavioural difficulties than amongst pupils who are not identified as having these special needs . |
| 19 | To collect a body of information/data on the prevalence of learned helplessness and self-worth motivation in three samples of pupils , and to show whether these motivational styles are more prevalent amongst pupils with learning and behavioural difficulties than amongst pupils who are not identified as having these special needs . |
| 20 | If ever you see bream at the surface moving in several different directions , or merely lying with their backs or just the tip of their dorsal fins out of the water , or cruising sedately along , then they are not rolling or feeding bream . |
| 21 | I said , Richard we 're not pushing and nosing but we want doing right . |
| 22 | If you 're not weeping and wailing people think you 're doing alright . |
| 23 | If you 're not playing and feeling bad , what actually happens . |
| 24 | And er , then I should go to the bobbin shop and ask them if they could get these done today and er , well we got this on , I said no but I , we want it if you could leave them on one side and erm I used to er I , I became , if I might say so and I 'm not boasting or bragging or anything , Michael , I 'm trying to tell you the situation as it was and er I was a very important man to and er they er got me er at one time to er figure out , they , they used to make what was called Woolworths locks . |
| 25 | I 'm not signing or changing anything Richard until we have exchanged contracts |
| 26 | The erstwhile ubiquitous road men , always in couples , bent double when you were not looking and sucking pipes and leaning on long-handled spades when you passed , were locals you knew and waved to . |
| 27 | The er directive of December nineteen ninety three did have details that we were not expecting and looking for so there was a great deal of new work to take on board . |
| 28 | Only one of the infants with these malformations was delivered by elective caesarean section ( the one with Vater syndrome ) ; three of the four others were not recognised as presenting by the breech until labour was established , which limited the scope for prenatal diagnosis . |
| 29 | If words such as scio and non dubito in the second half of the second century were not regarded as showing clear intention to set up trusts , might they have been after these cases ? |
| 30 | In spite of the high risk profile of the participants , that is , an average of seven previous and often recent convictions ( see above ) , 95 or 63 per cent of the sample were not recorded as having committed further offences during the twelve month follow-up . |