Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinging to the hillside amid scenic splendour , these houses sternly defy gravity by not tumbling down to the sea below . |
| 2 | ‘ You are not walking on to the stage at the Shield , or any theatre in which I have influence , again . |
| 3 | When not banging on about the sins of Vin Garbutt , the shaggy-haired Teesside warbler responsible for Little Innocents and other anti-abortion songs , certain feminist folkies have taken to conducting vigilante patrols through Folk Roots magazine in search of new sources of offence . |
| 4 | For I could tell that he was a little rusty , and I wondered if sometimes this affable and agreeable companion was worried because he knew that he was not keeping up with the strides that modern medicine was taking . |
| 5 | Salaries were not keeping up with the rate of inflation , which in the cities was estimated to be running at 20 per cent . |
| 6 | I 'm tempted to suggest the Mercedes S-class for being visually boring , but I respect Bruno Sacco too much , so I 'll plump for any current Maserati for not living up to the legend . |
| 7 | Often the buyer will exercise both remedies at once , i.e. will reject the goods and will also indicate that he is not going on with the contract , e.g. by demanding his money back . |
| 8 | Eventually , either Mr Smith or Mr Jones had remarked : ‘ Are we not going on with the journey ? ’ |
| 9 | I 'm not going on with the lecture if they 're going to play their childish little games in here . ’ |
| 10 | It does have the advantage of the computer not going off in the heat of the moment and hurting some innocent bank clerk , though . ’ |
| 11 | They are not going in at the moment but that does n't worry me because he is a smashing lad doing the right things again . |
| 12 | I was emotionally devastated , but I was not going back with the intention of finding a man to take care of me , to pay my bills , to embellish me and play papa as Helmut had . |
| 13 | Or if you 're not going back to the hospital , it will be sent to you by post . |
| 14 | Yeah we 're not going back to the underpass do |
| 15 | That , however , is of scant consequence to coach Brian Gilbert , who ruefully reflected : ‘ At this late stage of the season it should be about polishing off moves , not going back to the drawing board . |
| 16 | You 're not going back in the family business , are you , Floyd ? ’ |
| 17 | Lucien was so disturbed by the dream that the following morning he considered staying in his room and not going down to the exercise court to practice with Resenence . |
| 18 | Well you 're not going out on the razzle dazzle . |
| 19 | ‘ No you 're not going out to the cinema tonight . |
| 20 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 21 | For the two women , Bumface 's dismissal merited no more than perfunctory laughter and a slight impatience with Charles for not getting on with the business of bottle opening . |
| 22 | That what the inspector 's been telling us year after year , that we are in serious danger of not coming up to the protection safety standards , is something that we ca n't push into the background any longer and I 'm very glad it 's come to the full council so that the whole council can take it seriously the public protection committee has taken it seriously for a very long time . |
| 23 | She 's not coming up to the prison , it 's as simple as that . ’ |
| 24 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 25 | I notice it 's not coming out of the police authority budget , it 's coming out of publi , er this , this er committee 's budget . |
| 26 | The auctioneers Phillips have asked us to point out that they are not giving up on the continent , although they are reducing their representation there ( The Art Newspaper No. 21 October 1992 , p. 27 ) . |
| 27 | alarm , I hope they 're not running about in the barn all day going bad , we 'll all get fucking poisoned , did you leave us a couple ? |
| 28 | Government and hospitals are not opting out of the N H S at all , they are every much of it a as part of the Health Service as they every have been and you all know that and it 's about time you stopped saying it . |
| 29 | Monitoring of people moved from Friern Hospital in north London and Claybury Hospital in Essex shows that they are not slipping out of the system and are enjoying a better quality of life with greater independence and a more varied social life . |
| 30 | In the light of this new evidence , it seems that Shandruk 's account of why the Ukrainian Division was permitted to leave Austria is broadly correct , and that the inclusion in the division of considerable numbers from " Eastern Poland " was regarded by local commanders as sufficient reason to allow the Ukrainians through to Italy , bearing in mind the emphasis in all allied instructions on the importance of not handing over to the Russians " persons coming from those territories " . |