Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | motorist admits to not seeing boy who came from opposite pavement but accepted that motorist had only limited opportunity for seeing him . |
| 2 | Not seeing Fen for weeks or seeing him and knowing the futility of it all . |
| 3 | But his mother was disappointed at not seeing Tess . |
| 4 | if he 's setting it up if they 're not bringing while Friday and they set it up give you time to set it up |
| 5 | The counsellor has to enter into the family dynamic , not intrusively , not demanding compliance with the wishes or even with the needs of the elderly counsellee , but to ensure that the feelings and needs of each member of the family , however weak , are heard . |
| 6 | Perhaps now he was , like a child , content with little , not demanding detail . |
| 7 | Delegates stressed they were not demanding blood , but a real deterrent to murder and multiple murder . |
| 8 | Otherwise the clock would stop if the set were tuned to a transmitter not transmitting CT or if the set were switched off . |
| 9 | And I have a responsibility to the Committee , you know , and they have to the Regional Board , even though you 're working in a section of the hospital that 's outside the NHS establishment , and not using Ministry money . |
| 10 | It is unfortunate that Jha et al do not point out the disadvantages of not using incident cases , nor try to estimate the magnitude of the systematic errors thus introduced . |
| 11 | You 're not using stack |
| 12 | Rather than investigate ways of cleaning waste water , researchers at the German Textile Research Centre decided to explore the possibility of not using water in the dyeing process at all . |
| 13 | Again , it was mainly older people and those who were not using credit who said this . |
| 14 | But some people did say that high interest rates were a reason for not using credit cards , personal loans from finance companies , HP or second mortgages for home improvements . |
| 15 | ‘ Of the 65 per cent of companies not using credit insurance , half had no idea what it would cost as a percentage of total sales value , indicating that the industry has a real job to do explaining how little properly structured credit insurance can cost : often 0.5 per cent of turnover or less . ’ |
| 16 | Sawyer not using push stick . |
| 17 | We 're not using polystyrene anyway . |
| 18 | The person who prescribed the medicine may have had homoeopathic experience but was not using homoeopathy in this case . |
| 19 | When a horse communicates by sound it is not using language as we would expect it to . |
| 20 | It follows that I am not using language properly if I say that you ought to do something , unless I hold by some universal principle from which this prescription follows and all other implications of which I would be prepared to endorse , most notably those which would prescribe under certain circumstances that I do something . |
| 21 | Mr. Maunder then gave a list of ‘ don'ts ’ including not using peat based compost — he suggested coconut fibre or copra bean substitutes — and not buying hardwood trellis . |
| 22 | On May 14 a joint communiqué was issued outlining the guiding principles for settling the demarcation of their common border , which included not using force to resolve the issue . |
| 23 | ABOVE This drawing by Doreen Roberts was made with Neocolor crayons using some of the techniques described , but not using turps |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not using UNACO to pull any strings , Carmen . |
| 25 | If a family is not using planning , in a year they have one child and in ten years , how many ? |
| 26 | And I bet you , if you look at how many of your accounts are not using carriage forward when they should you would be amazed . |
| 27 | Mr Major 's advisers share a broad preference for fiscal neutrality — ie , not using tax breaks to favour certain kinds of economic activity and to penalise others . |
| 28 | If you need to send the remedy through the post and are not using dropper type stock bottles I have personally found it safest to add the granule to 10mls of alcohol in say a 10ml screw cap vial . |
| 29 | been attacked over the last few months of not wasting time on the hunt I spend an awful lot of time relieving heavy goods traffic in my area , concerned totally about the environment , about mineral extraction quarries , mining , open cast , things of that calibre . |
| 30 | Besides , I can also allow myself to feel smug about not wasting paper and therefore saving a piece of forest . |