Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose we were old friends who were meeting again after not seeing each other for many years . |
| 2 | He says these new recruits to higher education , entering universities in large numbers are not seeing long-term change towards the market , so much as a reduced staff:student ratio , meaning less one-to-one contact , and larger , less frequent tutorial groups . |
| 3 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 4 | and , you 're losing money , , if you 're not , if you 're not seeing any return you 're |
| 5 | It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty . |
| 6 | And as long as you 're I do n't care what star you 're following you 're not bringing those camel through my garden ! |
| 7 | Erm a light bulb is not using much electricity in a given time . |
| 8 | This trait was noted by fellow politicians such as Enoch Powell : ‘ [ Ted ] believes there is an answer to all problems which can be worked out by proper bureaucratic means — I 'm not using that word abusively for once — by the proper approach . |
| 9 | They made a big thing about us sort of not using one millimetre holes using |
| 10 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 11 | Some became pregnant through contraceptive failure , such as missing taking the Pill for a day , or a faulty condom , but most do it through not using any kind of contraception at all . |
| 12 | ‘ We managed to keep a live feel to the record firstly by not using any click tracks ; we recorded drums and acoustic rhythm guitar together to start each song off . |
| 13 | So I encourage people to play entire solos , only using chord tones , not using any approach notes or scale notes at all , but only using the three or four basic notes of whatever the chord is . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , four out of five of them were not using any form of birth control . |
| 15 | Later , Crawford generously conceded to Sherrin that the decision was right and it was a lesson in not using substandard material . |
| 16 | By September contracts had been signed for the import of scarce food and consumer goods worth 43,000 million roubles , mostly on a barter or joint-enterprise basis ( that is , not using hard currency ) ; some of the imports were to meet the demands of striking miners [ see p. 36826 ] . |
| 17 | Data volumes can also be cut by not using full screen video . |
| 18 | I think that maybe the magistrates are not using enough deterrent shall we say . |
| 19 | But you , you 're right that if we stick to somewhere between six hundred and seven hundred as , as a erm even a basic kind of subsistence I E you 've just got enough in just , you , you 're just not using enough food to get yourself up to two hundred , two thousand calories a day at that rate you were still being taxed on , a at a rate of almost twenty percent of your , of your income . |
| 20 | It is that people are forgetting or just not using Andean technology , so they are exhausting the soil . |
| 21 | The first thing to do is make sure you 're not wasting Conventional memory , |
| 22 | It suddenly says hang on , I 'm not wasting enough paper , let's shove a few blanks through , fires more blanks than the T A that thing . |
| 23 | By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses . |
| 24 | These men , either forgetting or not realising that work is but a component of life and not a reason for it , are likely to have spent too much time working , to the exclusion of family and leisure activities . |
| 25 | The legal system is still not reflecting public abhorrence of rape . ’ |
| 26 | It was not raining this time and the train went through to Latimer Road unhindered . |
| 27 | He came over and said , ‘ So I see you are not enjoying this concert . |
| 28 | ‘ So give , ’ Steve husked , obviously still feeling his loss and talking about it not helping one bit . |
| 29 | The Smiths were not helping this cause . |
| 30 | Perhaps they 're not channelling this pride in the right direction . |