Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [prep] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as a leader can not exist without followers , so too strategic vision can not exist without being so recognized by followers . |
| 2 | Two striking differences from British and American assemblies were noticeable : top government officials were not disbarred from being deputies , the deputies were all part-timers who held another full-time job . |
| 3 | The study did not spring into being overnight of course , and for over a decade a number of community groups throughout Appalachia have tried to combat the worst excesses of a pattern of landownership which breeds power without responsibility . |
| 4 | It is understood that he decided not to appeal after being told that a mental health review tribunal would be held soon after his return to Britain . |
| 5 | Most solicitors are finding that a number of receipts issued by superiors or their agents are not completed by being signed in terms of Form 2 of Schedule I prescribed by the Act for redemption receipts . |
| 6 | Yet if , like John Cromartie in David Garnett 's novella A Man in the Zoo , such a person did not object to being caged up ( Cromartie enjoyed it ) then we would raise no objection to its continuing , however unenviable we might think it to be ( Garnett 1932 ) . |
| 7 | Bob Kernohan would not object to being called a very conservative Conservative . |
| 8 | ‘ You need not apologize for being so upset , ’ Morton said quietly . |
| 9 | He had not objected to being photographed but was upset to see photographs of himself and a feature in the Sunday Mail of 4 October 1990 headed ‘ The sheer agony of a food allergy . ’ |
| 10 | " Goodness me , do n't start taking that as a compliment , she cares about everyone 's feelings , she 's an archetypal victim , she 's an absolute fool about other people 's feelings , and let me warn you , I may as well warn you , the more she dislikes somebody , the more somebody annoys her , the more careful she is not to hurt their feelings , in fact the only people she is ever rude to are people like me and Gabriel and Papa , I mean people she cares for enough not to worry about being fair to . |
| 11 | By this time there was very little he did not know about being a prince ; and long before he came to it he would know more than most men born to it about being a king . |
| 12 | Your puppy is tense and will more often than not cry after being taken from his litter-mates . |
| 13 | A sale of goods is not prevented from being a sale by description by reason only that , being exposed for sale or hire , they are selected by the buyer . ’ |
| 14 | ( p100 ) This is now given statutory effect by s13(3) of SGA 1979 which provides that : A sale of goods is not prevented from being a sale by description by reason only that , the goods being exposed for sale or hire , they are selected by the buyer . |
| 15 | The SNC meteorites are not suspected of being material ejected from Earth following a major impact and which subsequently fell back to Earth . |
| 16 | In Britain , the character of being a mobilizer or a reconciler is not related to being in any one party or being in opposition or government . |
| 17 | You will probably not succeed in being word-perfect , and there is danger in reciting a memorised speech either of appearing unnatural or of forgetting a complete section or even coming to a dead halt . |
| 18 | True education does not consist in being taught just anything , any more than true religion consists in believing just anything . |
| 19 | One old man remembered that a visit as a child to the doctor did not result in being given a prescription . |
| 20 | We are also not bothered about being famous or number one in the charts . |
| 21 | Erm I 'm not bothered about being self employed . |
| 22 | The question mark over the reactor protection system is one of a queue of unresolved issues which now do not look like being settled before the public inquiry ends in the autumn . |
| 23 | The panda is a shy creature , not used to being in contact with other animals , particularly humans . |
| 24 | He had explained that , ‘ Mrs Miller is a woman not used to being idle and will sweep clean through the house with fearsome enthusiasm if she is n't watched . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's like a lighthouse , ’ Mickey Aronson whispered to Ada ; and , indeed , Mickey 's comparison was well chosen , for the smile of pride Max Klein could not suppress at being the baaleboss for such a momentous occasion seemed to reach his lips only after first puffing out his chest . |
| 26 | , Hot air is not filtered before being drawn into the engine and while you are on the ground probably contains dust particles which can easily cause accelerated engine ) . |
| 27 | Kevin Ball , who has not played since being carried off injured in the semi-final win over Norwich , is back in contention for a place . |
| 28 | One way round the problem is to script your commentary so that it does not depend on being recorded to accurate timings . |
| 29 | And , I do n't know , it seems that actually you 've got a very good sense of using all those traditions to inform things that happen , things that you do and erm you 're not locked in being regarded as in that sort of tradition and the pressures that result from that . |
| 30 | Awareness , although aided by propositional knowledge , is primarily of the concrete situation , to which one can not attend without being causally affected , so that to have become aware of it at all one must already be responding to it in ways which vary with the range and degree of awareness . |