Example sentences of "[be] [adv] not [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drugs often make people feel they 're coping , when they 're really not coping at all . |
| 2 | Had it been grown there expressly for the purpose of alluring cattle to their destruction , the defendant would have been liable , not on the grounds of Rylands v. Fletcher , but because he would have been in the position of one who deliberately sets traps baited with flesh in order to attract and catch dogs which are otherwise not trespassing at all . |
| 3 | Switch it on there it 's just not working at all . |
| 4 | I feel I should look about and see streams of groups being angry and hateful — but it 's just not happening at all . ’ |
| 5 | It seems that my mind is then not working at any high pressure intellectually and , somehow or other , it is receptive to completely new ideas . |
| 6 | I suppose it would bore you to come and see my poor children , but they do need amusing , they are at that stage of convalescing when nothing is entertaining for very long and Mamma is certainly not entertaining at all , so a pretty thing like you would be a breath of fresh air . |