Example sentences of "[conj] not [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We consider that punitive policies such as cutting benefit payments or not providing adequate housing for lone parents or their children , would immediately damage the health and well being of children and we consider that that in itself is contrary to the U N convention on the rights of the child . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I think , I 'd like to just take up the point about secrecy because I am involved in talking to couples where the , there is a basic problem of male infertility where th the husband of the couple , or the partner of the couple is unable to father a child because he 's not producing any sperm , or not producing enough sperm and that couple come to us for help and advice |
| 4 | I asked Terry to come along because one of the things I tho I tho I hope we might get round to spending a few minutes on was about Alan 's raised it before about records coming in er , and what the state of the game is in records coming into us and how we 're transferring that information , or not transferring that information onto dep onto department 's national curriculum er material |
| 5 | Given the very patchy record of companies that have diversified into areas not related to their existing businesses or not requiring similar management skills , corporate managers ought always to bear in mind the option of planned divestment of inevitable dinosaurs with a view to returning cash to shareholders ( see Lorenz , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | Stealing ( or not paying other debts ) in order to gamble is commonplace and stories abound of any number of crimes — even murder — being committed for pitifully small amounts simply in order to gamble . |
| 7 | Not getting semen or menstrual blood in the mouth is an obvious way of reducing this risk even more ( by stopping before ejaculation , or not having oral sex during the woman 's period ) . |
| 8 | Although not showing these features , the colonic and rectal biopsies from our patient showed changes unlike those usually seen in idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 9 | As it was , some struggled on , more often than not incurring further losses . |
| 10 | On top of that Sumner practically accused Microsoft of biasing the test parameters in favour of Word and not allowing enough time for the testers to fully explore the respective packages . |
| 11 | made earlier on about erm women approving of one woman doing one thing , and not approving another woman doing another . |
| 12 | They used to do that : the chief inspector walking down on a Saturday morning in full regalia and one of these fellows would nod and they 'd always walk to the corner , and the Chief would n't say anything about it because they were on the corner and not causing any obstruction . |
| 13 | The Unit is educational first and foremost , so that patients are admitted to the beds only if they are fully ambulant and not requiring parenteral therapy . |
| 14 | ‘ … there are some persons maintained in the sick wards at the Bedford Institution who may be classified as infirm and not requiring constant hospital treatment . |
| 15 | The image of the immigrant as not yet integrated into American society , poor , and not fulfilling American standards of cleanliness was complete . |
| 16 | They had not approved of the baby ; they had thought Phoebe negligent at best for getting pregnant and not taking appropriate action ; they had chivvied her through the later months of her pregnancy with a mixture of indulgence and irritation , cross both that she was pregnant and that she was n't taking it seriously . |
| 17 | Allied Colloids is accused of failing to store dangerous substances safely and not taking proper fire precautions . |
| 18 | There are conditions you must meet in all services , such as using proper packaging , addressing things correctly and not sending certain things in the post . |
| 19 | ‘ . You 'd all at least have seen the same thing and not getting one person 's narrative of what happened across the school last week . |
| 20 | so as for emotional outbursts and not getting any penalty i guess he knows all albout it and that 's why he was asked/spoke to the press about Ooh-Aah 's turkish outburst . |
| 21 | But , if only by default , through simply reading the text in terms of the text and not bringing outside considerations to bear , she , as does Barth , shores up its authority . |
| 22 | ‘ THE ENVIRONS of Stokesley are fertile , ’ wrote John Bigland in The Beauties of England and Wales in 1812 , ‘ being chiefly in grass and not affording enough employment for the inhabitants , a general langour , as Mr Graves very justly observes , appears to prevail . |
| 23 | If you are keeping strictly to 1,000 calories a day and not shedding surplus fat … then the chances are you are NOT keeping strictly to 1,000 calories a day . |
| 24 | In their different ways , both absolute and relative concepts suggest that the struggle to make ends meet is fought out in and against the routines which sustain health ; in the routines of buying bones from the butcher and not buying new shoes for the children . |
| 25 | Especially when I first saw him sort of , crawling on his tummy and not wanting any food and I thought , ah ! |
| 26 | Uses behaviour that emphasises the interviewer 's powers to appraise and evaluate — sitting back in the chair , head tilting backwards , hand covering mouth , perhaps , looking doubtful and not registering any reaction to what is said , or indicating that he or she appreciates that their ‘ victim ’ has finished an answer . |
| 27 | Instead , he talked somewhat mystifyingly about not re-writing history , not substituting latter-day judgment for that of contemporaries , and not finding any evidence that the men were treated unfairly at the time . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's better if children see their parents in a normal existence and not having certain attentions thrown their way . |
| 29 | Our four weeks at Orange had been made up of marching , singing , being hit and not having enough sleep . |
| 30 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |