Example sentences of "[be] not [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not lassoing Lucker . |
| 2 | I am not advocating thrombolysis in the absence of that , but provided that is available and he keeps his head and the family respect the GP , then he should be giving thrombolysis . |
| 3 | It follows that I am not using language properly if I say that you ought to do something , unless I hold by some universal principle from which this prescription follows and all other implications of which I would be prepared to endorse , most notably those which would prescribe under certain circumstances that I do something . |
| 4 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 5 | I am not marrying Antoinette . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not awaiting court-martial , ’ Gabriel declared . |
| 7 | I ought to explain that in this talk I am not attacking fundamentalism as such — I am in fact asking what are its strengths , weaknesses and challenges . |
| 8 | No , I am not giving way . |
| 9 | I am not giving way . |
| 10 | In saying ‘ Do such-and-such ’ I am not giving expression to a belief . |
| 11 | Lawrence added : ‘ I am not denying interest but nothing concrete has occurred . ’ |
| 12 | The inclusion of the notion of subjectivity in the above definition might seem surprising here , but I am not equating deixis with a concept that stands in rough opposition to objectivity . |
| 13 | People tend to think , because they are not doing sums on paper they are not learning maths — but they are . ’ |
| 14 | These are not shrieking cornflower hues , but smoky , inky or even blackish blues ( Lauder 's Dress Blue/Blue Mist duo , Lancôme 's Illusion Bleutée , Chanel 's Paradis ( Enfer ) . |
| 15 | The couple are not discounting marriage . |
| 16 | In particular it seems that members in the UK are not taking advantage of the scheme to the same extent as members in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland . |
| 17 | Members in Northern Ireland are not taking advantage of the savings available on Homecover to anything like the same extent as members in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 18 | There are very good grants but farmers are not taking advantage of them . ’ |
| 19 | Even though school generated activities are not taking place at these times judgements are made about the standard of work on display and the general state of order and cleanliness . |
| 20 | Police are not taking action until they know whether the men face charges . |
| 21 | Architects on both sides of the wall are worried that racing to provide the new capital , the politicians are not taking time to consult Berlin 's architects about the problems on either side of the wall . |
| 22 | Yeah , sorry I was going to ah er do , do you find that er the criminals are not taking notice of alarms off now because they know that people will be |
| 23 | Unlike the construction of age equivalents , in the generation of standard scores it may help to include children with linguistic difficulties in the standardisation sample , since the test 's items will be designed to discriminate these children from children who are not experiencing language difficulties . |
| 24 | If you need to send the remedy through the post and are not using dropper type stock bottles I have personally found it safest to add the granule to 10mls of alcohol in say a 10ml screw cap vial . |
| 25 | And I bet you , if you look at how many of your accounts are not using carriage forward when they should you would be amazed . |
| 26 | Fattening pastures , as opposed to land where growing youngstock is reared or dairy cows kept , require little manure apart from the droppings of the grazing animals , as they are not exporting bone ( phosphorus ) or milk ( calcium ) from the land . |
| 27 | Is the Minister aware that Members of Parliament , and anybody else with two homes , need only one television licence to cover both homes , the assumption being that they are not watching television simultaneously in both homes . |
| 28 | She is trying to make explicit what lies hidden at another level , one which the participants , whether schooled or unschooled , are not drawing attention to themselves : the cognitive level . |
| 29 | Along with other Scottish Local Authorities , we are not implementing care management in full in April 1993 . |
| 30 | ‘ We are not providing food in a normal environment , ’ he says . |