Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [is] not " in BNC.

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1 even though seeing them is not that different
2 I since you 've already contacted them in person , erm phoning them 's not going to you know reassure them that we 're a bona fide company
3 ‘ I am just hoping and praying he is not going to be used as a human shield .
4 There the wee man goes and spoils it all by sayin' he 's not an ice man and if we get ourselves into a really bad pressure ridge he could n't say fur sure what would happen .
5 Smoking them 's not too bad , it 's putting them out with your foot that really hurts ’
6 Anyone like us who , after two hand-outs , tries pretending she 's not there is eventually offered what sounds like a horrible curse .
7 And there 's Master Tristram pretending he 's not listening to his father , who might 've been sitting in the Fowey stocks by now if it was n't for that same father 's efforts . "
8 He 's not listening he 's not listening
9 What practical steps are we taking to discover how the Church appears from the outsider 's perspective and how its message is being interpreted ; remembering it 's not what we say but what they hear which really counts ?
10 I 'm looking it 's not one job for one person in one company today .
11 He 's pretending it 's not there .
12 Mm , he 's laying there pretending it 's not him , look !
13 By avoiding this situation and pretending it 's not happening means that we can actually be risking the lives of one our friends , one of our family .
14 At the time of writing it is not clear what will happen to the Draft Directive .
15 However , at the time of writing it is not clear how the new structure will work in practice , especially since RENFE 's systems for determining costs of services appear to be less advanced than those used by BR .
16 At the time of writing it 's not even out yet .
17 Erm well slightly different in the fact that er we er have two close schemes with far more er beneficiaries than there are er subscribing members , and at the moment that are four nominated by the er employer and four by the unions er we wish to say a pensioner erm that the rights were a pensioner nominee to that board of trustees , because we feel that er the situation is er is going to increase , we 've got so many beneficiaries and that the pensioners have no representative er I know that erm people on the boards of trustees are completely impartial , but on the other hand there is no pensioner there , the members are unsure of the fund , because of what 's been said , not that I 'm implying it 's not a secure fund , it is a secure fund , but they think why are they keeping the pensioners off , they there is some sort of hidden agenda they will not have us on there because neither of the businesses although we have tried for several years er they will not entertain at the moment erm a pensioner trustee , and yet Professor Good in his report acknowledges the merit of pensioner nominated trustees , er particularly in the sort of schemes where we 've got , wh where th the majority of beneficiaries .
18 Fun tray Children soon learn how to undo buckles on car safety restraints , but tying or turning them is not the solution as they wo n't come undone quickly in an emergency .
19 And use you 're you 're not going it 's not going to be negative is it ?
20 But if older women do have special survival skills , evaluating them is not a simple matter .
21 Thus a councillor may find himself co-opted on to a committee of another local authority , since such a committee may , providing it is not a finance committee , co-opt non-members .
22 Added Cliff : ‘ We can reproduce virtually anything providing it is not obscene . ’
23 providing it 's not raining
24 At the time of printing it is not possible to confirm Clive Owen and Leslie Phillips will be present .
25 Strictly speaking it is not possible to compare contents , address by address , because addresses do n't correspond to each other across species barriers .
26 However , strictly speaking it is not a number but a physical quantity with units of mol-1 .
27 I would prefer to see an inter-club with Skelm and an inter-club with Hulton I think they get too big , two clubs is too difficult to organize when there 's three cos you , you 're getting it 's not , it 's the
28 there 's a lot of backtracking it 's not a question of learn every integral there is and you have them all neatly laid out in your head in a
29 What I said about him saying he 's not changed any ?
30 I want to tell them I 'm going to Drama School , but I ca n't stand the look on their faces , the thought of their whining voices saying it 's not a suitable occupation for their darling daughter . ’
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