Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , despite contact with patients between one and three times per week , the unmet needs in groups C and D suggest that certain community nurses either may not be carrying out the assessment tasks effectively or may not be reassessing clients adequately . |
| 2 | If you use the art lesson to check school meal monies , or mark your books , and leave the children to get on , you will not be teaching this subject well ; and the children will suffer and so will their work . |
| 3 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 4 | They would not be expecting that . |
| 5 | Ask the children to sit in a circle and explain that the aim of the game is to toss the beanbag ( bomb ) to a child in the circle who may not be expecting it , possibly by looking one way and throwing the other . |
| 6 | Mrs Boatman will certainly not be expecting her potential charges at Northumberland to be chasing all over the country in search of titles . |
| 7 | They will not be expecting her , they will see her as an intruder . |
| 8 | Within weeks she had sacked Kathy Pitkin , who played teenage bride Fizz and told six others she would not be renewing their contracts . |
| 9 | He approached the county councillor and poet , Francis Thomas , and told him he would not be renewing the lease on Tybrith as they had now outgrown it . |
| 10 | On the day on which 6,500 redundancy notices were delivered to army personnel , Grampian Enterprise confirmed it would not be renewing the grant when the 18-month contract runs out in March . |
| 11 | Obviously , if you have a heavy cold , a headache , are suffering from lack of sleep or are jet lagged , you should not be flying . |
| 12 | Peter also commented that the MIG-15 currently sitting in a corner of TFC 's hangar is only transiting through and will not be flying with TFC . |
| 13 | You will not be flirting at the kitchen door with the milkman and the coalman , and Matey will not be chasing you for doing so . ’ |
| 14 | At about 1 a.m. word passed through the encampment that we would not be boarding until the morning . |
| 15 | The US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) has announced that it will not be tightening the standard for low-level ozone , the principal ingredient of smog . |
| 16 | What Takashimiya may not be counting on , however , is the degree to which Americans regard art as an expression of individuality and social cachet . |
| 17 | Again , these can not be holding companies , but may carry out financing , factoring , treasury management and similar activities . |
| 18 | Christie 's will not be holding sales in Germany next year as it is our policy to centralise ‘ European ’ sales in London where the international range of buyers and sellers can benefit from the best marketing and auctioneering available . |
| 19 | Since it is the world leader at fashioning new-fangled superconductors made from thallium and bismuth ( which work at higher and more convenient temperatures ) , Sumitomo Electric sees no reason why it should not be supplying coils for sea-going SEMP vessels before the decade is out . |
| 20 | You could even say that you should worry if a child reaches the age of seven or eight without ever using swear words , since he or she may not be listening to people perhaps not even to you . |
| 21 | I would say that if you 're sixty years old and looking for meaning in life you should not be listening to this kind of music . |
| 22 | Sub-text : ‘ I have to convey my message , which is more important than yours ( and I may not be listening to you ) . ’ |
| 23 | But Mr Waigel may not be listening . |
| 24 | This may be true , but he should not be clouding the issue with irrelevant gibes at the ‘ competition . ’ |
| 25 | And they would not be choosing the Communist Party . |
| 26 | A spokesman for James Bourlet said that the police would not be undertaking any further investigations . |
| 27 | I am sure that he will not be preaching an anti-Christian message . |
| 28 | People like those keen gardeners who talk to their flowers and love them , may not be helping the flowers but they are doing themselves much good , for love benefits the lover more than the loved . |
| 29 | The Church should not be helping him up , but helping him over : false optimism does not need a helping hand ; it needs firstly the truth , and secondly love to salve the lost illusions and move on to a fuller humanity ( Walker 1986 : 214 ) . |
| 30 | We should not be helping our enemies ( in international terms , of course ! ) , but that 's what we are doing by allowing the Exiles to compete in our leagues . |