Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it . |
| 2 | The rise in wages was therefore not basically damaging to profitability . |
| 3 | The spark that arises between Vronsky and Anna proves not only damaging to Karenin ( Anna 's husband ) but also to the young Kitty Shcherbatsky , who seeing Vronsky as a possible suitor , was in love with him . |
| 4 | As J. K. Galbraith ( 1979 ) has pointed out the adman actually creates markets and implants ‘ needs ’ in people ; he is not merely responding to consumer demand . |
| 5 | The preamble further asserts that the company are making ‘ considerable progress ’ on the remaining portion of the main line between Bishop 's Castle and the Cambrian , which is not exactly according to fact , in as far as the term ‘ considerable progress ’ is popularly understood . |
| 6 | The numbers were vast and this was very largely because the movies were not just appealing to sections of the masses but to the masses in general . |
| 7 | For an eleven year old schoolgirl , it 's not easy coming to terms with having a plastic eye . |
| 8 | She had also left some grasses free-flowing , stuck only at the bottom so they could move in the breeze , but had been told this was not strictly according to tradition . |
| 9 | Then before she could stop herself she asked : ‘ You 're not really going to Australia are you , Harriet ? ’ |
| 10 | Both the group and the person himself are necessary for the process ; the epic poet is actively creative and not passively responding to group pressures . |
| 11 | Already wise to the ways of two of the most notoriously sharkish industries , TV and pop , Kylie was not however going to Hollywood with her eyes closed . |
| 12 | But the organisational nightmare and sundry fall-out fade into insignificance next to Hendrix , though he 'd ditched his experience for a conglomerate called The Gypsy Sun And Rainbows Band , Hendrix was n't really looking to flesh out his playing . |
| 13 | She was n't even going to humour Mrs Fanshawe any more . |