Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose we were old friends who were meeting again after not seeing each other for many years . |
| 2 | He says these new recruits to higher education , entering universities in large numbers are not seeing long-term change towards the market , so much as a reduced staff:student ratio , meaning less one-to-one contact , and larger , less frequent tutorial groups . |
| 3 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 4 | ‘ Indeed , ma'am , ’ said Wilson politely , not seeing this had anything to do with her . |
| 5 | not seeing this . |
| 6 | ‘ We understand the president-elect is not seeing any heads of government , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty . |
| 8 | and , you 're losing money , , if you 're not , if you 're not seeing any return you 're |
| 9 | Johnson even complained a little — or so Boswell suggests — that he was not seeing enough of Boswell : ‘ He asked me today , how it happened we were so little together . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Obviously you are not seeing enough of Señor Mitchell . |
| 11 | But , if only by default , through simply reading the text in terms of the text and not bringing outside considerations to bear , she , as does Barth , shores up its authority . |
| 12 | And as long as you 're I do n't care what star you 're following you 're not bringing those camel through my garden ! |
| 13 | Now if I was a cadre and I received that I think I would be thinking right erm if I really want to be at the forefront of this that 's the policy that I want to promote erm and if the peasants in my area are not demanding this and not achieving this well we , I , I ca n't be seen not to be going it , I 've got ta go with this . |
| 14 | We should be aiming for higher standards , not encouraging lower ones ’ , said Dr Caldwell . |
| 15 | Even the historical travelogues , with their resource to tap existing stocks of costumes and sets , were not proving that great as money savers . |
| 16 | Members of the research and development department , put under the massive strain of trying to turn production over from rock slippers to ‘ rubber craft ’ ( not proving all that popular according to market research anyway ) were dropping like flies . |
| 17 | On the other hand , if the recordings are not proving useful , then perhaps you should think again about making them . |
| 18 | One word from Rainald that you are not proving useful to us and young de Tracy dies . |
| 19 | This is not proving easy . |
| 20 | This is not proving easy . |
| 21 | The post-medieval , ultramontane model was simply not proving workable in either intellectual or social terms . |
| 22 | But institutional ownership is not proving ideal for economies , because fund managers are poorly placed to monitor firms . |
| 23 | Erm a light bulb is not using much electricity in a given time . |
| 24 | This trait was noted by fellow politicians such as Enoch Powell : ‘ [ Ted ] believes there is an answer to all problems which can be worked out by proper bureaucratic means — I 'm not using that word abusively for once — by the proper approach . |
| 25 | all the time , and eventually , I 'm not using that , and he 'll just start giving you the answers , and when he does start giving the answers , keep on , let him get a lot right . |
| 26 | You know , you 're not using that particular tool any more and you hop out of it and walk away . |
| 27 | However , USL says it 's not using all the Tivoli applications and will be going to Pyramid Technology Corp for its user and group management and storage device control , Unisys Corp for its software installation and distribution and Siemens Nixdorf Informationssystemes AG for its print management . |
| 28 | I 'm not using one of them ! |
| 29 | They made a big thing about us sort of not using one millimetre holes using |
| 30 | There were some differences between the groups , mainly in the recognition of black speakers who were not using Creole features of syntax or segmental phonology . |