Example sentences of "[pron] [be] not [v-ing] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm not paying lip service to convention .
2 No I 'm not playing sex maniac so
3 ‘ They rang and asked why I was n't claiming income support , ’ he said .
4 The Official Unionists , who are not contesting North Down , have thrown their support behind Mr Kilfedder .
5 If you are not receiving Housing Benefit at the moment , but because you are on a low income you feel that you may qualify for help , please apply to the Council now .
6 And you 're not working Saturday morning , instead of going to work late we can go a bit early and do a bit of shopping ourselves .
7 Oh you 're not having Christmas lunch .
8 This applies even to those who were not receiving income support at the time .
9 Along with other Scottish Local Authorities , we are not implementing care management in full in April 1993 .
10 Erm , if we 're not allowing nerve tissue to be used in the feedstuffs of cattle , because we suspect that it might be carried in that , and therefore being transmitted to live , er , one species to another , how is it now we can buy chops with nerve ti tissue in it ?
11 However , that is n't the end of the sum because you do have to add a policy fee , and we 're not talking expense charge here , of one pound nineteen , we are talking a number which has been devised so that you get right answer from the rate book .
12 ‘ What do you mean , it 's obvious we were n't playing tic tac toe ? ’
13 When they are not speaking London English , they may choose to " talk black " or " chat Patois " : but this " black " variety , as I shall show below , is focused on Jamaican Creole in particular .
14 Deliveries of Cuban sugar , which arrives mainly in the first half of the year , load the Soviet sugar factories ' productive capacities in the period when they are not processing sugar beet ( Kolodov : 1984 , p. 16 ) .
15 Sometimes students get anxious about this , and believe they are not making audience contact early enough ; but if you think about it , the reasoning is clear .
16 So they 're not coming stone cold .
17 Whatever people might think about DHSS money , what it has meant in practice is that the global sum of money to help provide for the needs of people with dementia or other long-term needs is much greater than it would have been if they were not attracting DHSS supplementation .
18 and peasant antagonism ought to have been greatest and therefore you on the face of it it seems surprising does n't it that land reforms did n't take place immediately , or they were n't attempting land reform to take place immediately .
19 It 's not writing sound sound .
20 I said now there 's three more of us that know that he 's not paying poll tax
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