Example sentences of "is [not/n't] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boss Kevin Keegan is not pushing the 30-year-old striker out of the door , but he is unlikely to stand in the way if Quinn decides he wants to leave . |
| 2 | But Clough is adamant , saying : ‘ Pearce is not getting a new contract . ’ |
| 3 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 4 | The stated aim is to bring product engineering closer to customers ; the Wall Street Journal quotes a senior DEC manager saying president Ken Olsen feels DEC is not getting an adequate return on its $1,600m annual investment in product engineering . |
| 5 | ‘ Aid to these countries is of a high humanitarian priority at the moment , ’ he said , ‘ and it is not getting the desired coverage because of problems in neighbouring states . ’ |
| 6 | Like bees buzzing up and down my window pane , the instinct is too deep for such a creature to see or to reason that he is not getting the expected response . |
| 7 | Kemira is not seeking a complete ban of imports from the East . |
| 8 | Kemira is not seeking a complete ban of imports from the East . |
| 9 | Jason Donovan is not seeking the full amount controversially awarded him by the jury in the High Court , but we are still required to pay him the sum of £95,000 in reduced costs and damages . |
| 10 | It can also help us to identify why a student is not achieving the stylistic effect he or she is seeking . |
| 11 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 12 | Hobbes is not using an inductive argument here ; the ‘ possibility apparent ’ is not an inductive argument from observations about past children but is meant to refer to some discernible feature of present ones . |
| 13 | All that says is that this particular product line is not following a smooth transition from youth to middle age and then old age , but that it has managed to find some rejuvenation late in life . |
| 14 | Costain is not paying a final dividend , making the interim 43/4p the total for the year . |
| 15 | However , it seems more justifiable to claim that the RSVP technique is not testing the normal comprehension of sentences . |
| 16 | If the monitor works but appears to have lost one or more of the red , blue or green colours , the cable connecting the card to the monitor is not making a good connection . |
| 17 | He is not making a temporal point about something that must have happened ‘ in the beginning ’ — the first push . |
| 18 | In developing a critique of scientism ( which Habermas regards Knowledge and Human Interests to be ) he is not rejecting the epistemological validity of the nomological sciences or the hermeneutic sciences but is trying to orient them in relation to the critical sciences . |
| 19 | Peter Monroe , president of the RTC 's supervisory board , said in a recent interview that he has got ‘ a pretty clear message from Congress ’ that he is not running a social service . |
| 20 | Blithely oblivious to the fact that France is about the only member country with any money that is not running an enormous budget deficit , the European Commission yesterday outlined a grandiose plan to spend $15,000m on a network to link bureaucracies in the 12 European Community countries to help their authorities to exchange information in areas from social security to natural disasters in the single market . |
| 21 | They 're the ones that call radio stations and demand more airtime , scream when the station is not playing the new album , and eventually cause it to happen for you . ’ |
| 22 | But is it not necessary sometimes to inflict violence and is not killing the only course open to a man in certain circumstances ? |
| 23 | Now at the moment the black chemical that 's in there is not doing a great deal . |
| 24 | The commonest start-up problem is not giving the offline system the media items to make the copies . |
| 25 | NATO is not introducing a new dimension in warfare ; nor is the alliance even increasing its nuclear warheads in Europe . |
| 26 | In that situation , the band is n't using the live gig to plug their current record , like an appearance on the ‘ Wogan ’ show . |
| 27 | The council is n't building the nuclear submarine or the underground cavern itself . |
| 28 | So Bill Gates is n't having a great time at the moment and things may get worse once the US Federal Trade Commission reveals its findings about Microsoft 's business practices . |
| 29 | Is n't caring a rewarding occupation ? |