Example sentences of "be [not/n't] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ people with learning difficulties are not respected to begin with and because the women 's Individual Programmes , including skills training , are not in place , they are not progressing as well as they could and they are not getting respect . ’ |
| 2 | What I do is to stop these last two if apparently indicated remedies are not working as well as I would have expected . |
| 3 | Erm we are not going any further than that erm we the debate this morning erm we were looking at the differences between ourselves and then for example Selby District of what what they would like to see which was er certainly more than growth oriented the County Council 's proposals are . |
| 4 | cos these blooming policies are not doing as well as I expected |
| 5 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |
| 6 | I 'm not staying around just so you can use me as your verbal punch-bag again . |
| 7 | I 'm not riding as well as I was and I 'm not as brave as I was and I have to face facts |
| 8 | For when I plead with him he says , ‘ I 'm not going any slower than this . |
| 9 | CHRIS De Burgh stunned owners of a top London recording studio when he told them : ‘ I 'm not working here again unless you change the carpet ’ . |
| 10 | A spokesman for Destiny Technology said settlement talks fell through because they ‘ were not moving as rapidly as they could have . ’ |
| 11 | In general , observers noted that the economic reforms were not proceeding as quickly as originally envisaged . |
| 12 | At first there was a lack of trust between us : I thought they were not trying hard enough as we went over and over the same issues ; they thought I was trying to take over . |
| 13 | As we noted above , the latest 1988 BCS indicates , that indeed , crime is not rising as steeply as police statistics imply . |
| 14 | One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co . |
| 15 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 16 | Despite its impressive growth it represents only 5 per cent of the total population and is not growing as fast as evangelical sects . |
| 17 | Can I make the point that if you do n't get to the parents of kids kids , before the end of summer term you could be jeopardising the chances of what they 're doing in the SATS because if you get to the parent erm in the beginning of the spring term and say you know , Fred is not doing particularly well because of this the parents are then in a position to do something about it but if you actually tell them once , basically the stable doors closed what can |
| 18 | But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ His hip 's not mending as quickly as it ought , which makes him very impatient . |
| 20 | No he 's not saying that , he 's not going that far because he 's not talking about all religions . |
| 21 | Thames Water says demand for supplies is n't growing as fast as expected . |
| 22 | So do n't write off the ‘ old country ’ yet Amanda it is n't doing as badly as it thinks . |
| 23 | The fact that the long-stay population was not declining as rapidly as had been thought meant an expensive ‘ double running ’ situation . |
| 24 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 25 | Her temperature was not falling as rapidly as had been expected , and this , he feared , had been caused by her determination to get out of bed too soon . |
| 26 | They wanted him to like this house but he did n't , and he was n't saying so just so they 'd feel better . |
| 27 | ‘ She said he kept promising to marry her , but by mid-May she had got very frustrated that the relationship was n't accelerating as quickly as she wanted , said Antonia 's friend . |
| 28 | Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph . |
| 29 | She was n't going so far as to make protestations of delight in Betty 's company . |