Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | She was n't even going to humour Mrs Fanshawe any more . |