Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , recent research indicates that the slim person is not necessarily eating in a way to promote maximum health . |
| 2 | When I first started , I was not exactly working toward a goal , but having fun collecting with Basil Taylor 's assistance . |
| 3 | You 're not just looking for a brother . |
| 4 | A defendant who admits his conviction but denies its relevance is probably also putting up a positive case and not just relying on a denial of which particulars would not normally be ordered . |
| 5 | er not really looking for a revolution , just looking back to where you were before |
| 6 | So far as Mr. Beazley 's other points are concerned : ( a ) I do not accept that the English choice of law rule is relevant , since we are not here dealing with a choice of law problem . |
| 7 | Of course I am not here arguing for a return to a three-tier model of reality seen in literalistic terms . |
| 8 | There are , of course , many other accounts by Turovsky , Serge Baudo , Michel Plasson , Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and others — not bad going for a composer who , according to one recent scribe , owes his place in the repertoire , ‘ albeit at the fringes , to Karajan 's stunning account of the ‘ dona nobis pacem ’ resolution of his Symphonie liturgique ’ . |
| 9 | Not bad going for a full-back is it . |
| 10 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |
| 11 | I 'm not actually talking to a teenager though I can be talking to anyone . |
| 12 | It is n't easy coping with a person who is twice your age and beset by problems you have no hope of being able to understand . |
| 13 | There was a time when you could n't go through a week , perhaps could n't even going through a day , without hearing the British National Anthem somewhere . |
| 14 | He says he is praying for rain , but is n't yet resorting to a rain dance . |