Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves not only reflecting on why certain types of behaviours are defined as criminal in some historical periods and not others , but also why a particular criminal law comes to incorporate from relatively homogeneous behaviour patterns only a portion and exclude the remainder , even though each and every instance of this behaviour causes avoidable harm , injury , or deprivation . |
| 2 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 3 | The woman was not just getting on her nerves now . |
| 4 | Indeed , HIV could provide a means of encouraging people to broaden their sexual horizons , by not just relying on penetration as the goal of sexual pleasure . |
| 5 | A defendant who admits his conviction but denies its relevance is probably also putting up a positive case and not just relying on a denial of which particulars would not normally be ordered . |
| 6 | ‘ Not just waiting on me , McAllister , ’ he answered — he seemed to have an answer for everything , she thought . |
| 7 | and when the learning process of new material comes along , he 's not still struggling on learning how to read and write |
| 8 | ‘ You 're not still dwelling on our conversation on the beach , are you ? ’ he asked with a hint of impatience . |
| 9 | Where forecasts are not legally binding on the buyer , another commonly used alternative is for the buyer to agree to compensate the seller ( up to some agreed limits ) for excess inventory of the products covered by the agreement which are still in the seller 's hands on termination of the agreement , but which he can not reasonably dispose of elsewhere . |
| 10 | ‘ Reducing car tax is not really taking on board the long term interests , ’ he said . |
| 11 | So you 're not really concentrating on the television , because you do n't have to . |
| 12 | He does n't really seem to be very careful about distinguishing intellect from the one and , and so forth , does n't really , he 's not , he 's not really focusing on that difference and so seems to let it lapse in a less than useful way . |
| 13 | In short , in deciding whether or not a child was being abused ( and what course of practical action to take ) , social workers were not simply relying on clinical and other sources of more objective evidence , but were being asked to make value judgements about the kinds of situations in which child abuse is most likely to occur , and the ‘ types ’ of people most likely to engage in it . |
| 14 | I 'm not particularly driving on my own , normally Paddy does , but erm , |
| 15 | Fernie looked around the room , not quite focusing on anything . |
| 16 | Chancellor Norman Lamont is pressing the Bank of England to examine allegations that the big lenders are not fully passing on the cheaper rates . |
| 17 | The judge erred in law in holding that in mortgage proceedings if a mortgagee failed to seek an order for costs then the mortgagor could apply for the costs to be taxed on an appropriate basis ; if no order was made the mortgagor could require that the costs of the mortgage proceedings be referred by the master taking the account to the taxing master for taxation pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 24 ; ( 3 ) that a provision in the mortgage deed providing expressly or by implication the basis on which costs were to be taxed was not then binding on the court and the judge also erred when he held that in mortgage proceedings a provision entitling the mortgagee to an indemnity against all costs , charges and expenses was void so far as it purports to exclude the jurisdiction of the court under section 51 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 18 | Although he has already scored 13 goals for Aston Villa this season , the 24-year-old striker is self-critical enough to insist he is not yet firing on all cylinders . |
| 19 | Although he has already scored 13 goals for Aston Villa this season , the 24-year-old striker is self-critical enough to insist he is not yet firing on all cylinders . |
| 20 | The first option is one of not actually going on holiday alone , but going with a relative or friend . |
| 21 | Ah but I was n't just meaning on the concrete bit . |
| 22 | ‘ But Sabine Jourdain — and Fitzgerald , for that matter — were n't ever sleeping on the beach . |
| 23 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 24 | Ca n't even sitting on those chairs you see and she gave a really and loud whistle ! |
| 25 | It was n't even recording on that tape was on there , why ? |
| 26 | And I said I 'd be back for around one cos I was n't actually planning on doing much |