Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] being [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | " 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We are also not bothered about being famous or number one in the charts . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is because females reared on larger hosts are able to lay more eggs , but males do not gain by being larger . |
| 7 | This approach has been popular with teaching staff who are not known for being slow to complain about their administrative load . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps this will teach me not to think about being beautiful , ’ she said sadly . |
| 9 | So if we are to think of all of this in terms of Christian joy then we must realize that joy does not come from being immune to everything else that 's going on . |
| 10 | If you 've got a school where there are weak teachers then you do n't want to being weak . |
| 11 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 12 | But I was feeling a bit tense and restless , and did n't feel like being alone or sitting still . |
| 13 | Besides , she probably had n't got over being angry ; she needed time to cool down . |
| 14 | The barber took a knife to the thicket , weighed it when it was off , and gave her 2½ lb of hair wrapped up in tissue paper which the nurse briskly took from her as soon as they were outside because she did n't believe in being morbid . |
| 15 | I would n't dream of being late for Aunt Louise . ’ |
| 16 | He could n't admit to being afraid of a breath of air . |
| 17 | It has been expanding ever since those 70s feminists took to wearing boiler suits to prove they did n't care about being attractive to men . |
| 18 | Coffee , croissants and the morning papers had seemed very attractive on setting out , but I had n't bargained on being stuck for ages in Kilburn on the way home . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Scooper 's blind 83-year-old mother , Henny , whose cancerous breast parallels Scooper 's atrophied heart , is in a hospital bed , facing an appalling future ( she has cheated death by her refusal to stop talking ) but still struggling to get across her philosophy : do n't worry about being healthy — just live ! |
| 20 | Do n't worry about being tactful when you interrupt them . ’ |
| 21 | Well I certainly would n't worry about being rude to that to Don the train spotter . |