Example sentences of "[pers pn] is not [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first do n't is not to believe that the child is lazy because he or she is not managing to spell . |
| 2 | She may know that she is not going to recover from the blow of widowhood any sooner than other women do , many of whom at least have a large legacy of happy memories upon which to draw in the years ahead of them . |
| 3 | It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us . |
| 4 | Since she is not going to advise Octavia to marry the suspect Philander , she suggests celibacy : |
| 5 | She is not going to make the same mistake Jimmy Carter 's First Lady Rosalyn did . |
| 6 | She is not planning to marry a cook . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It is not trying to infer that the people in the classroom are supporting me . |
| 8 | A large part of all advertising is designed ( deliberately or accidentally ) as ‘ reminder ’ or ‘ reinforcement ’ advertising : it is not trying to change anything . |
| 9 | It is not scaremongering to raise these spectres . |
| 10 | The Mercury One-2-One Ltd digital cellular joint venture between Cable & Wireless Plc and US West Inc has been talking to Reuters , and says it is not seeking to trigger a price war with Cellnet Mobile Communications Ltd and Vodafone Group Plc . |
| 11 | Moving cautiously into the Unix market , Software AG says it is not seeking to confront competitors at the moment . |
| 12 | " The food web is so isolated from anything we consume that it is not going to affect people " , she added . |
| 13 | The likelihood that , after all the fanfare and ultimatums , it is not going to happen , or at least not for the time being , is another boost for the ‘ rebel ’ general in his lonely defiance of Lebanon 's Muslims — indeed , a good many of its Christians , too — much of the Arab world , and international communities . |
| 14 | It is not going to happen all at once , so we have to hark back to that original commitment and say , ‘ I 've made a commitment not to bring this up any more , not to hold it against them . ’ |
| 15 | It is not going to happen ; not yet . |
| 16 | Conversely , people think that myocardial infarction is something that you die from , quite rightly , and therefore most believe that " it is not going to happen to me " . |
| 17 | You and they have to understand this : it is not going to happen here . |
| 18 | Well clearly it is not going to yield to any such analysis , and to believe that it will is to deny the reality of subjective life and to side with the behaviourists . |
| 19 | All server versions of CICS should give programmers the same familiar application development environment and rich set of programming interfaces to hide the underlying machine and network — it 's easy to see why this will aid downsizing , but it is not going to do much for IBM 's hardware sales . |
| 20 | What worries me is that it is not going to end there . |
| 21 | I thought driving up today would have been a good day but the reality is that it is not going to start until Easter time . |
| 22 | After about five minutes you may need to change the blotters but , eventually , when it looks as if it is not going to curl , you can remove the weight and let it air dry . |
| 23 | It is not going to disappear like so many initiatives that start well but fade away . |
| 24 | Request : Joan Hammell , his secretary , wrote to say : ‘ I am afraid it is not going to prove possible for Mr Kinnock to make a contribution as much as he would love to . |
| 25 | It is not going to require all schemes to increase pensions in payment by up to a maximum of 5 per cent a year . |
| 26 | I mean , erm you yo , the amount of oppression and completely ridiculous situations that that is going to cause , it is not going to solve any problems at all ! |
| 27 | ‘ February is only a short month , so it is not going to have a devastating effect on figures , and there are now signs that the recession is bottoming out , which has to be good for the industry , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 28 | The approach , however , is fundamentally marginal : it is not going to have a great effect on urban economies faced with the impact of massive corporate restructuring ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 29 | Together they have created a warm and welcoming atmosphere , with Tony ( when he is not trying to improve his golf handicap ) working front of house , and Mary preparing the meals . |
| 30 | I told him he is not trying to get fit in time . |