Example sentences of "[be] not [v-ing] at all " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If you do n't feel the muscles tense , then you are not stretching at all . |
| 3 | You 're not concentrating at all Paul are you ? |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not thinking at all — not for the minute , ’ replied Morse loftily . |
| 5 | I 'm not singing at all . |
| 6 | I 'm not going at all . |
| 7 | ‘ A-actually , ’ she managed to stammer as haughtily as she could , ‘ I 'm not playing at all , but you wo n't believe me . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | MILLIONS are staked every week but officially this is not gambling at all . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I have tried to show in this discussion that higher learning is not learning at all in any familiar sense . |
| 13 | Lawrence Kasdan 's latest film , Grand Canyon ( Odeon , West End , from 1 May ) , is not reassuring at all . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's not racing at all . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | Maybe it 's not coming at all … |
| 18 | Because she was not moving at all , she developed a weeping wound in her leg one day , and the circulation collapsed to the extent that she nearly had to have the leg amputated . |
| 19 | He was not digging at all now but taking a breather , evidently . |
| 20 | Harvard trainees , while waiting for dealing licences to be sent from the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , were given the job of establishing initial contact with persons whose names were Perfectly properly provided by Dun and Bradstreet , the American business information service , which was not dealing at all . |
| 21 | Mr Hollins 's voice was still kind , but he was not budging at all . |
| 22 | When five o'clock came and Jimmy began to tidy his desk , she was not thinking at all kindly about her employer . |
| 23 | Bob was not sweating at all . |
| 24 | Marguerite looked shocked , her eyes turning to Alain for some sort of confirmation , but Jenna was not waiting at all . |
| 25 | So she was not feeling at all friendly to Naylor when , shortly after breakfast , they left Parkwood . |