Example sentences of "[not/n't] being [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE troops ' intervention in the ambulance strike is not being authorised under the Emergency Powers Act , but under a Whitehall arrangement which enables one department to request ‘ military aid to the civil ministries ’ from the Ministry of Defence and pay the bill afterwards . |
| 2 | It is clearly impossible to anticipate every eventuality , but the guiding principle must be that if the source of difficulty does not lie in the implementation of a selected strategy and is not being assessed during the conduct of the investigation , then assistance can be given . |
| 3 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — The Colombian government said it had rejected an offer last year from drug traffickers to give up the drug trade in exchange for not being extradited to the US , and firmly ruled out any dialogue with the traffickers . |
| 4 | She passed on up the street liking and not being detained by the people there and reached her house . |
| 5 | There is growing concern within the Youth Work Service that the changing needs of young people in Northern Ireland are not being met by the variety of statutory and voluntary bodies involved in youth work provision . |
| 6 | And most of those were anomalies , such as consolation prizes to Julie Andrews ( Mary Poppins , 1964 ) for not being cast in the screen version of My Fair Lady ; and to John Wayne ( True Grit , 1969 ) , whose only other nomination in forty years was for a war movie ( Sands of Iwo Jima , 1949 ) . |
| 7 | That means that the reduction in the rent applied throughout the years down to the end of 1944 , but early in 1945 it is plain that the flats were fully let , and , indeed the rents received from them ( many of them not being affected by the Rent Restrictions Acts ) , were increased beyond the figure at which it was originally contemplated that they would be let . |
| 8 | While it is easy to imagine the value of having the information available in digital format , one realises that its preservation is not being undertaken for the value to posterity of the data , but because of its commercial value to 20th Century-Fox . |
| 9 | This is showing you that the sentence or command line is a comment or reminder , and is not being implicated at the moment . |
| 10 | Of course our cost reductions are not being achieved at the expense of quality in our building standards . |
| 11 | Of course , it is always possible to say that people are suffering from false consciousness ( women , for example , are continually suffering from the illusion that they are not being exploited in the home ) but that is surely too patronising a view to be taken at all seriously . |
| 12 | This study was carried out to determine the number of haemophilic patients seropositive for HIV antibodies and the mortality from HIV infection and to confirm that young children were not being exposed to the virus . |
| 13 | Sit downwind , of course , but be aware that wind often swirls in woodland clearings , so look at the leaves on the tops of the trees to make sure you are not being misled by the wind direction at ground level . |
| 14 | Not being connected with the world , and being more spiritual . |
| 15 | Insect muscles differ fundamentally from those of Annelids , both in histological structure and in not being incorporated into the body-wall to form a dermo-muscular tube . |
| 16 | Rather the criticism is that the basic and structural problems are not being tackled with the vigour that is required . |
| 17 | The man , who is not being named at the request of his family , was detained with a German man at Umm Qasr on May 28 and sentenced to eight years in jail in Baghdad on June 6 , a spokeswoman said . |
| 18 | The doctor , who worked in general practice in Bolton from August 1991 to February 1992 , is not being named by the authority , and officials are refusing to confirm reports that he was a trainee GP in the West Haughton area of the town . |
| 19 | This means not being bound by the commitment to a narrow specialist view . |
| 20 | Er , well , she she 's not being supported by the commission for year one , and in fact she wo n't be supported for year two either , so the thing that , I I 'm I 'm I put it in as a potential budget |
| 21 | There are many cheaper and constructive ways to contain young offenders , but they ware not being funded by the Government . |
| 22 | Position clearly has an influence but it is probably most significant when the individual 's goals are not being satisfied by the opportunities within a job . |
| 23 | We did not want to be the cause of friction ; but as we were unable to ascertain what the Club had in mind by way of arrangements , we proposed tea or dinner , or , if he were not being entertained in the evening , both . |
| 24 | Walesa also claimed to be prepared to govern the country by force because legislation was not being implemented by the Sejm [ see p. 38305 ] . |
| 25 | Will the hon. Gentleman explain why the question is not being answered by the Home Secretary ? |
| 26 | Perhaps the value of this single word lies in its being repeated by another whistling beak , in its not being forgotten during the interval of silence . |
| 27 | These certainly were not in the box when it arrived in England and I fear were purloined from you either at Perth or Sydney , the tin box where in all probability you intended to put them not being opened at the Docks . |
| 28 | The corporate calculator has little to fear ; and he is correct in not being deterred for the costs incurred by corporate crime are indeed small . |
| 29 | For the same reasons sex is better at weekends or on holidays because your sexual desires are not being swamped by the trivia of everyday life . |
| 30 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |