Example sentences of "[be] not [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | U2 and close spirits are not simply fighting against lack of rock groups , or regressive traditional rock activity , but against the stiff tradition of Irish showbands , the giddy lack of pop choice or opportunity . |
| 2 | We are not just looking for tax disc dodgers , we are looking for insurance offences , or MOT offences and the condition of vehicles . ’ |
| 3 | He added : ‘ Players are not just training at club sessions , they continue to build up on their own . |
| 4 | We are not just talking about information ; we are talking about the ability to respond to the living language . |
| 5 | It is that those who are not currently working for money make no contribution to the nation 's gross national product — that they are consumers only , not producers . |
| 6 | This is , without doubt , a book for professionals who are not only thinking about quality , but who want to instill a fundamental change in the way people think about and do their work . |
| 7 | you 're not exactly thinking about sex . |
| 8 | Such gimmicks have helped to make Virgin 's upper class service tempting to business passengers , but Virgin knows the real business is done by men like this , and they 're not just looking at service but also cost . |
| 9 | The human race is producing so much information — it is n't factual information , we 're not just looking at price movements of stocks and shares , but in the scientific community it 's very much to do with ideas and how that person can get across his ideas , his concepts to people to half a world away . |
| 10 | It is n't factual information , we 're not just looking at price movements of stocks and shares , but in the scientific community it 's very much to do with ideas and how that person can get across his ideas , his concepts , to people half a world away . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not just asking for money , though , are you ? ’ he said . |
| 12 | You 're not just paying for milk . |
| 13 | Well , this is a slightly more complicated application , where you 're not just selling for example straight from stock , but you take orders from customers , and then you would have to manufacture , perhaps to buy in , to assemble , some sort of goods for sending out . |
| 14 | We 're not simply talking about opening and closing in response to a stimulus then , this first stimulus has left the channels in a state in which they 're relatively unable to gate open . |
| 15 | I trust they 're not now living in sin . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 're not seriously thinking of swimming , are you ? ’ |
| 17 | Well , we 're not really talking about traffic calming , we 're talking about a specific scheme in . |
| 18 | ‘ Six-year-olds are n't exactly brimming with curiosity about gays and lesbians — or sexuality in general . |
| 19 | ‘ London is a nice place to visit , but being from the North of England we were n't exactly overflowing with money . |
| 20 | The preamble further asserts that the company are making ‘ considerable progress ’ on the remaining portion of the main line between Bishop 's Castle and the Cambrian , which is not exactly according to fact , in as far as the term ‘ considerable progress ’ is popularly understood . |
| 21 | ‘ Reducing car tax is not really taking on board the long term interests , ’ he said . |
| 22 | As J. K. Galbraith ( 1979 ) has pointed out the adman actually creates markets and implants ‘ needs ’ in people ; he is not merely responding to consumer demand . |
| 23 | It 's not just standing in court . |
| 24 | Like I said at the beginning , Rickenbacker do n't churn designs out lightly ; the Atlantis and Excalibur are the result of careful consideration , and if you 're looking for a guitar that 's not only brimming with personality but is eminently playable in just about any style , I 'd suggest you check this one out , fast … |
| 25 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 26 | By contrast with the Liberal understanding , the kingdom as Blumhardt preached it was not gradually evolving through history , nor identified with the moral progress of human civilisation , but would come ‘ from beyond ’ . |
| 27 | Though by that time , he was not usually thinking of nourishment but the simple satisfaction of hunger . |
| 28 | She was n't even going to humour Mrs Fanshawe any more . |
| 29 | To prove I was n't totally lacking in appeal , I suppose . |
| 30 | I was n't absolutely brimming with confidence but there was nothing wrong with Seve 's tee-shot this time . |