Example sentences of "are [not/n't] [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sums of money I am describing tonight are large , revenue and capital spending combined , of over three thousand million pounds is many times the amount spent by quangos in Wales outside the health service and the grant represents a large share of my total budget for Wales and I hope members opposite are not suggesting I should cut spending on health , that is a vital service which I thought they supported as well . |
| 2 | There will still be local government inspectors — we are not privatising them . |
| 3 | And we are not accepting them . ’ |
| 4 | Many people are not aware of the existence of some of them or of their own eligibility to make a claim , so are not taking them up ; and you may find that you are one of them . |
| 5 | The Socialists , though , are not taking it lying down . |
| 6 | ‘ We have simply said we are not taking it seriously . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We are not taking you to an uncivilised place , Jenna , ’ he murmured . |
| 8 | There is a well known phrase : " Just because I 'm paranoid it does n't mean that people are not persecuting me . " |
| 9 | switch off lights when you are not using them |
| 10 | monitor current prescriptions to make sure that children are not using them for their first experiments with drugs . |
| 11 | As a suggestion , could I ask you to consider whether Constabulary could share the Heather/Sally machine when they are not using it ? |
| 12 | Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it . |
| 13 | We are not kidding you ; it does work . |
| 14 | But once we do so , once we see that by calling God ‘ transcendent ’ we are not banishing Him to some distant celestial isle from which to look down on us , then it becomes easier and not harder to understand His presence . |
| 15 | Make sure that the story you have for them is interesting and if it is merely constituency information , explain that you are providing it for background briefing and that you are not expecting them to publish it . |
| 16 | Check if this carries VAT — it comes as a nasty shock if you are not expecting it . |
| 17 | Tom Banks and some twelve year old in a thirty five year old body anyway you are not watching it because you are going to bed eight o'clock , is that not right daddy ? |
| 18 | ‘ They grudgingly agreed , but they are not producing them for general sale . |
| 19 | But they know my ancestral chain so they are not trying it on too much . ’ |
| 20 | I notice that even when you are simply listening to music on tape or watching it on the TV monitor when you are editing you are still breathing with the music even though you are not conducting it . |
| 21 | " We hope we are not bothering you , " the chief said . |
| 22 | If you are not receiving it but believe you should be doing so , you should write to your local tax office ( see under Inland Revenue in the telephone directory ) stating your age and , if married , that of your partner . |
| 23 | " And how can I be sure you are not telling me a little mentirola ? |
| 24 | ‘ You are not telling me the truth . ’ |
| 25 | Frey would solve the problem in the following manner : Recognition involves certain beliefs ; specifically , that the object has been previously encountered , that we are not imagining it , and so on . |
| 26 | But " originality " presents a difficult problem because ( unless you are doing advanced research ) you are unlikely to be in a position to advance new facts or radically new interpretations , or even to have a wide enough knowledge of what other people have written to be sure that you are not duplicating it . |
| 27 | We are not pretending it 's taking place today . |
| 28 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 29 | You need flexibility to change tack if you are not getting it right . |
| 30 | It is no benefit to us that the work is produced in Edinburgh , because we are not getting it . |