Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] is not [v-ing] " 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 | However , as with every part of the curriculum , there is a wider perspective to be taken into account , and that is the fact that there is a limit on what an individual teacher can achieve if he or she is not working in harmony with the rest of the school . |
| 3 | Comparison is also used to explain a current phenomenon by comparing the past experience of the group where it is occurring with that of a group where it is not occurring . |
| 4 | Either it is raining or it is not raining . |
| 5 | Sometimes the tears come for no reason ( by which phrase we mean that someone is not crying for a particular reason , for something or someone in particular , but that they are crying for everything ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Even though you know that she is not coming back , it does n't stop you missing her every day . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Well , we 'll get the cars to keep an eye out for her , but I have an awful feeling in my gut that she is not coming home . |
| 9 | The fault element in rape is that the man knows that the woman is not consenting or ‘ could not care less ’ that she is not consenting . |
| 10 | It may be difficult in certain circumstances for the man to understand that she is not consenting . ’ |
| 11 | A hostess in tight teeshirt and jeans lingers only long enough to assure Kate discreetly with her eyes that she is not poaching on her territory , smiles velvetly at Jeremy , brings them their drinks . |
| 12 | Peter immediately replied , ‘ I would like Susie to give up work and stay at home , so that I can be sure that she is not cheating on me and not planning to leave . ’ |
| 13 | It takes time and patience to get these quiet slow spoken people to talk ; they must be sure that one is not trying to make a fool of them or mocking them . |
| 14 | But in reality the amount and type of support which kin give each other varies with the particular historical circumstances within which family relationships are played out , so that looking at patterns of support at different points in time means that one is not comparing like with like in quite significant ways : there is variation both in people 's need for support and in the capacity of relatives to provide it . |
| 15 | But , in wrestling with it , it should be noted that one is not addressing the more fundamental question as to whether in fact feminism is compatible with Christianity . |
| 16 | STAINI RACK NUUL Introspection ( sometimes prompted by birthdays ) that one is not living as one determined to live when one was very young ; or , on the other hand , realizing that one is living in a mode decided upon when one was very young and which is now no longer applicable or appropriate |
| 17 | In many ways this is an understandable attitude to adopt , because it means that one is not forcing one 's moral decisions on someone else . |
| 18 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 19 | It is my contention that a similar process is occurring for at least a significant part of the people of Tyneside today , although it is not affecting everyone in the same way and involves a complex process of what may be more apparent than real social differentiation . |
| 20 | An initial objection which he poses is , interestingly , that it is not fitting that a woman should represent a father . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , its point about the evidence for God 's goodness — that it is not compelling and that , indeed , there may be moments when it appears that the facts of life may not be reconciled with a good Creator at all — might also be applied to the evidence for God 's existence . |
| 22 | They are reasons for holding that it is not binding . |
| 23 | In a more complex case I might sit in on a discussion within a committee but begin to consider that it is not moving in a direction that suits me . |
| 24 | If there 's one thing that is clear about desktop publishing it is that it is NOT publishing , a fact that often seems to escape those who sell it . |
| 25 | The latter may not realise in a coherent way what is afoot , but it knows that the duty of a government is to provide law and order and senses that it is not deploying its resources to do so . |
| 26 | Thus , the clear [ l ] in initial pre-vocalic position is a broad regional marker , and we conclude from this relative invariance that it is not undergoing change . |
| 27 | differentiate its broad product range in some way so that it is not competing directly with lower-cost products , or |
| 28 | Though about 95% of orders are placed without human intervention , people can , of course , monitor and override any of the system 's decisions — eg , to ensure that it is not ordering $2m missiles because of a statistical fluke . |
| 29 | Yet , paradoxically , despite a failure to agree about what education should aim for , what it should actually do , everyone seems to be certain both that it should do something , and that it is not doing it . |
| 30 | The government consultation paper insists that it is not gunning specifically for county or for district councils . |