Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reliance of elderly people on walking as a mode of transport increases their exposure to risk whilst their failing faculties raise the likelihood of them not seeing the striking vehicle . |
| 2 | not seeing the only point of being there |
| 3 | Just because some of them do n't know their arse from their elbow does n't mean that we 're not bringing the whole thing under control . ’ |
| 4 | I shall merely be requesting information about a taste which puzzles me , not demanding a further reason without which the whole string of answers will prove to be baseless . |
| 5 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 6 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 7 | Hobbes is not using an inductive argument here ; the ‘ possibility apparent ’ is not an inductive argument from observations about past children but is meant to refer to some discernible feature of present ones . |
| 8 | Not using the above sequence . |
| 9 | Due to the way VMS handles privilege allocation , the entire command procedure must leave all the privileges set until the Exit option is selected — and this means not using the lexical function F$SETPRV , as this will remove a privilege which is default but not authorised . |
| 10 | He must get this right , not make a fool of himself by stumbling over the words , not using the correct terminology or not knowing which fish he wanted . |
| 11 | If you are not using the original version , you should say so ( e.g. by noting " second edition " or " reprinted version " or " facsimile " ) . |
| 12 | She knew it annoyed Mrs. Mott , which was why she had agreed so peaceably to the girls not using the main staircase and the hall of the house to get to their sessions . |
| 13 | Not realising the long-term strategy behind the offer , Haslam turned it down , regarding it as an inferior job for someone with his mining engineering skills . |
| 14 | We could kick ourselves for not realising the obvious distinction . |
| 15 | It was a sad but inevitable outcome of not maintaining a proper balance between productivity and personality . |
| 16 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 17 | NEXT time you have a craving for yet another chocolate bar or long for a stream of passionate sexual encounters , be careful you 're not nursing a potential addiction . |
| 18 | Those commentators who blame Labour for not pursuing an alternative set of more socially just proposals in the conditions of August 1931 ought rather to blame the electorate for not giving Labour sufficient support to form a majority government in 1929 . |
| 19 | And from a wider point of view , We 're not helping the genuine trader . |
| 20 | If sound insulation is also needed , glass fibre matting can be inserted between boards and walls , although to be really effective , this needs a separate timber frame , adjacent to , but not touching the separating wall . |
| 21 | Not allowing the primary sufferer to be inappropriately involved in food preparation . |
| 22 | I 'm sure those fucking Officers are not eating the same crap as we are . ’ |
| 23 | INFERTILITY — A status of not producing a live-born child either for voluntary or physiological reasons ( voluntary infertility and physiological infertility respectively ) . |
| 24 | While Louise Newman 's cataloguing continues set the standard for European auctions , Christie 's Plc should be chastised for not producing a single owner catalogue that will become a standard reference . |
| 25 | British farmers are not producing the right kind of food for a healthy diet . |
| 26 | By 1900 it must have been increasingly obvious that the policies of Frederick and Bismarck were not producing the desired effect . |
| 27 | ‘ I think Mr Sheblee is being unreasonable in not accepting the revised price . ’ |
| 28 | The factors relevant to the giving of reasons by the Parole Board or a local review committee are not the same as those relevant to the Secretary of State 's giving reasons for not accepting the judicial view of the tariff . |
| 29 | We are not suggesting a sharp break at the turn of the nineteenth century or at the accession of Queen Victoria or whatever . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm not suggesting a wholesale restructuring , merely that a few of the top ladies could benefit from participating at a higher level of competition ’ . |