Example sentences of "[be] n't [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Janice and Ken are n't snapping at each other ( a level of conflict they seem to have got used to ) , they are snappy at the three children . |
| 2 | No , Tumbleweed are n't dabbling with any radically new threads here — cool melodies blasting through the '60s garage and topped off with some neat psychedelic baubles — but there 's such obvious songcraft at work that they burn new holes in some well-worn fabric . |
| 3 | I 'm in London I 'm in the nick I 'm in fucking Paddington Green for Christ 's sake , the high-security station they use for the Provos and they think I 'm so dangerous so much a security risk they 've got me here and even holding me under the Prevention of Terrorism Act Jesus God because some of them still are n't convinced they are n't dealing with some unholy alliance of the IRA , Welsh Nationalists and uppity jocks . |
| 4 | People who are n't staying at the centre can book for half a day or day long activity sessions too . |
| 5 | ‘ I hope that they are n't staying for the dance . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You are n't thinking of going out into the jungle to exercise for old times ’ sake ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ My lady , you are n't thinking of running off with a pedlar ? ’ |
| 8 | You are n't thinking of refusing ? ’ |
| 9 | Except that the world 's financial markets are n't thinking in Ppounds , and they get very nervous . |
| 10 | Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person |
| 11 | First release will either be the atmospheric ‘ Tomorrow 's Day ’ , or the livelier ‘ It 's Like This ’ but — despite attention from major labels — Reborn are n't looking for overkill . |
| 12 | ‘ We are n't looking for scandals , ’ said Roland . |
| 13 | You are n't looking for quantities that will fill air balloons but , nonetheless , you need amounts that call on industrial preparation and , as was the case for Paneth and Peters in Germany , the question was where to get it . |
| 14 | On the other hand , do n't go looking too battered : they are n't looking for Walter Huston , they 're looking for a younger , well-scrubbed , cheerfully confident Robert Mitchum . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't know why they are n't voting in favour to be honest |
| 16 | You are n't coming to the Pole with me . |
| 17 | So ‘ men are going to get off on women anyway , just walking down the street ’ and of course magazines whose raison d'etre is the presentation of the naked or seminaked female body as a spectacle are n't contributing to this state of affairs , are they ? |
| 18 | However , it is encouraging they are n't rushing into expanded budgets , ’ says a spokeswoman . |
| 19 | My friend Pauline , she has a daughter of eight , and her mother and father still are n't talking to her . |
| 20 | We are n't talking about knives and guns and machine guns . |
| 21 | Now , it 's the pay formula er that is that is the problem in your mind , er have you got any suggestion that they are n't talking about that ? |
| 22 | " But we are n't going towards them , captain , " protested Joseph , standing on the bottom rail and craning his neck to get a better view . |
| 23 | We are n't going with him , are we ? ’ |
| 24 | Unless you can promote yourself as a bit-part player in some concocted yarn involving Madonna , outlandish sexual indiscretions , wilful substance abuse or , better still , all three , they are n't going to be interested . |
| 25 | As you prepare to give your patch of grass its final once-over , it 's a good time to make sure you are n't going to be a tragic statistic next year . |
| 26 | Obviously with this sort of music the ideas are n't going to be : ‘ Yes , my girlfriend is a nurse and I would like a job in the pit ’ . |
| 27 | Erm and i also need to be concerned that the health authority I think is claiming that this merger will actually give them a better erm size population for research purposes for for purchasing , however , I think that it may well be that particular health needs , people in West Essex and Harlow in particular which has , for example , a rapidly ageing population and therefore needs facilities had not been planned into the town by way of health erm , that those statistics , those pockets of need are going to get overlooked in a much more large and vast disparate statistical picture , stretching from Hertfordshire right across to the coast I think it 's too big a sample and we need to make sure that our specific needs are n't going to be overlooked in all that . |
| 28 | It 's better that they understand that than make demands that are n't going to be met . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ These girls and boys are n't going to be afraid of animals , ’ I said to the robot . |
| 30 | I said ‘ No and I are n't going to now , am I ? ’ |