Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not using the above sequence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you are not using the original version , you should say so ( e.g. by noting " second edition " or " reprinted version " or " facsimile " ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We could kick ourselves for not realising the obvious distinction . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And from a wider point of view , We 're not helping the genuine trader . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Not allowing the primary sufferer to be inappropriately involved in food preparation . |
| 16 | I 'm sure those fucking Officers are not eating the same crap as we are . ’ |
| 17 | British farmers are not producing the right kind of food for a healthy diet . |
| 18 | By 1900 it must have been increasingly obvious that the policies of Frederick and Bismarck were not producing the desired effect . |
| 19 | ‘ I think Mr Sheblee is being unreasonable in not accepting the revised price . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Central police were not naming the dead man last night . |
| 22 | While not doubting the pharmacological dimension to drug-addiction , it is nevertheless true to say that in many cases this is only an external consequence of an existing internal dependency which is just as addictive , even though repressed . |
| 23 | Simultaneously we had been in touch with Sir Hubert and had discovered that he did indeed give an interview to the representative in London and had spoken ‘ off the cuff ’ to quite an extent but not justifying the outright statement attributed to him . |
| 24 | ‘ David had a very good game at Leeds , apart from not applying the golden rule of playing until the ref blows his whistle . |
| 25 | Better to lose face and be open about not understanding the cryptic message , than to lose sleep at night over it . |
| 26 | Would-be grandparents can express their disappointment at not acquiring the longed-for grandchild . |
| 27 | They are not adopting the broader role that we envisaged . |
| 28 | Checking her rear-view mirror , she accelerated and moved into the centre of the road , not noticing the dark-grey jeep pulling out in front of the truck . |
| 29 | This is something where the local authority is the lead agency , but it does involve , increasingly involve very close joint working with other agencies , particularly in the health authority , and there were various conditions attaching the funds , which have a number of , of purposes , but one of the key ones in terms of where you must spend your money , or a proportion of it , was very much aimed at not destabilizing the existing sector . |
| 30 | Gibbs-Heaviside eventually won as regards applicability but the quaternions have the honour of being the first to demonstrate the existence of consistent number systems not satisfying the commutative law of multiplication . |