Example sentences of "not be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | TIGHT-LIPS Taylor to-morrow meets the Press he 's not been speaking to . |
| 2 | Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other . |
| 3 | And , the greatest guilt of all , if she had not been in Maisie 's house … if Maisie had not been tending to the birthing … then the fire would not have happened and that darling woman would be alive today . |
| 4 | Dougal had not been listening to her for at least a minute . |
| 5 | Has the right hon. and learned Gentleman not been listening to the chorus of demands from the CBI , from the trade unions and now also from a number of Conservative newspapers for an increase in capital allowances for manufacturing industry ? |
| 6 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 7 | and says erm we 've not been talking to her it sa she 's not the one to write . |
| 8 | Because she 's not been going to the first aid room . |
| 9 | She was right , as it happens , but Scarlet , not being clairvoyant , could n't be expected to know that and resigned herself to yet another evening which would not be wholly enjoyable even had she not been going to the theatre . |
| 10 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 11 | So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house . |
| 12 | You could even say that you should worry if a child reaches the age of seven or eight without ever using swear words , since he or she may not be listening to people perhaps not even to you . |
| 13 | I would say that if you 're sixty years old and looking for meaning in life you should not be listening to this kind of music . |
| 14 | Sub-text : ‘ I have to convey my message , which is more important than yours ( and I may not be listening to you ) . ’ |
| 15 | But as family size may not be tending to zero , it is evident that income and material benefits are not the only considerations in determining family size . |
| 16 | As we have seen in Lecture 7 , equilibrium in the factor or output markets may not be achieved , and we have to examine in the context of a fully specified disequilibrium model whether the economy converges to an equilibrium path , which in turn may or may not be tending to a steady state . |
| 17 | Despite the go-ahead , Environment Secretary Michael Howard announced yesterday that 2,000 civil servants will not be moving to the Canary Wharf office block in the near future . |
| 18 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 19 | We have already mentioned that strikes need not be damaging to individual firms ; and while it is true that the economy as a whole can be damaged by certain groups of workers ( eg. power workers , miners and transport workers ) , relatively few groups actually have this kind of muscle . |
| 20 | We should not be converging to the lowest common denominator in Europe . |
| 21 | The statute can not be referring to the interests of all those individuals because they may differ and the interests of the majority are not necessarily the same as the interests of the State . |
| 22 | Then you would not be talking to me like a business client with whom you have experienced an unfortunate misunderstanding . ’ |
| 23 | Sometimes I stick to ‘ driver — ’ well , I have a cab ( though you 'd better not be talking to a real musher ) and a Heavy Goods Vehicle licence . |
| 24 | Why should they not be travelling to cities and places beyond ? |
| 25 | ‘ This place we 're going to , it 's in Mariánské Láznë ? ’ she thought she should enquire , since it seemed they would not be walking to this lunchtime venue . |
| 26 | They will not be coming to the cinema , and I was like , what time are they gon na come , and he was like , hang on , I have n't finished yet . |
| 27 | please would you tell Bill I will not be staying at the same hotel as the owners , and that I will again not be going to the president 's lunch , but that I will be at the races , even if he does n't see me . ’ |
| 28 | He would not be going to the funeral either . |
| 29 | Taylor said : ‘ I shall not be going to Italy to see him again . |
| 30 | His silence about Megara is not complete : Pericles is described as telling the Athenians that they will not be going to war over a trifle , if they refuse to rescind the Megarian decree as the Spartans demand . |