Example sentences of "[be] not [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are an Imperial player and facing a foe that uses such despicable tactics then console yourself with the thought that at least the units firing at the Helblaster are not firing at other targets . |
| 2 | ‘ We are not leaving at six . ’ |
| 3 | A combination of factors — including cost and disruption to office life , together with the recession and an inability to provide the right balance of work experience — means that either smaller firms are not training at all or they are opting to train certified accountants and accounting technicians . |
| 4 | If you do n't feel the muscles tense , then you are not stretching at all . |
| 5 | And we are only voting on whether we will accept to add these words or not , we 're not voting at this stage on deliverance number two . |
| 6 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 7 | We 're not looking at that point of view we 're looking at more like working together to find a solution . |
| 8 | Erm it , we 've covered some of it , the rest , er , again , because we 're not looking at such large large sums , you know , as Cover Master for Home Health Checks and things like that , erm , but , basically , no . |
| 9 | So on Friday he tried to pull same stunt again so I says oh no you 're not , I says we 're not playing at that , I says chuff that for a lark , I says what do you think you 're playing at ? |
| 10 | Alright , so the , the important piece of information here is , I have a train to catch so we 're not finishing at four thirty . |
| 11 | You 're not concentrating at all Paul are you ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not thinking at all — not for the minute , ’ replied Morse loftily . |
| 13 | And if every , everybody brings a friend then you 're looking at fifty people , and I 'm not looking at fifty people , I 'm looking at this lot . |
| 14 | I 'm not singing at all . |
| 15 | Now note I 'm not asking at this point in time for a general opening . |
| 16 | I 'm not going at all . |
| 17 | ‘ A-actually , ’ she managed to stammer as haughtily as she could , ‘ I 'm not playing at all , but you wo n't believe me . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not playing at any game . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not smiling at that and I 'm not interested in what you thought , ’ she snapped , then fell silent until they arrived at the zoo . |
| 20 | But they were not looking at one point , as the worshippers did at the Wimbledon Islamic Boys ' School ( Day Independent ) : they were moving up and down , backwards and forwards , bumping into each other and generally carrying on like people at Victoria Station during the rush hour . |
| 21 | Emily only then took in that the others were not swimming at all but standing on the bottom , and that the reason she was worn out from treading water was that she was a good eight or twelve inches shorter than the rest . |
| 22 | We were not feeling at all holy when we went in , having decided that all men were rotters , and fancy leaving us at Christmas for a couple of dames they had only just met ! |
| 23 | MILLIONS are staked every week but officially this is not gambling at all . |
| 24 | But then comes a statement about Christ which seems to emanate not from a rational clever man trying to help us to understand things more clearly , but from a rhetorical trickster who is not thinking at all . |
| 25 | I have tried to show in this discussion that higher learning is not learning at all in any familiar sense . |
| 26 | Lawrence Kasdan 's latest film , Grand Canyon ( Odeon , West End , from 1 May ) , is not reassuring at all . |
| 27 | If the variometer is fluctuating and reading up on one side of the circle and down a little on the other , the probability is that the glider is not climbing at all but is just drifting further down wind . |
| 28 | It 's not racing at all . |
| 29 | Their view of the world is contained in the belief ‘ if it 's not happening in the domestic market , it 's not happening at all ’ . |
| 30 | Maybe it 's not coming at all … |