Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the parent finds difficulty in not reacting to the child while in ‘ time out ’ on the chair , it may be better for the child to be placed in a safe separate room for the equivalent time . |
| 2 | It must be because I 'm not reacting to the socket like the receptionist would . |
| 3 | Many slimmers make this an excuse for not sticking to the diet , but I find it much easier being away from the kitchen and the kettle ! |
| 4 | But we 're not pandering it 's not pandering to the kids ! |
| 5 | Maritz is not returning to the L.P.G.A. She will play in Europe again next season , by which stage she believes that she will have gathered sufficient experience to fix her sights on America . |
| 6 | The new factory nearby is not keeping to the noise levels originally agreed , and heavy traffic continues to and from it late into the night . |
| 7 | Brownie Owl continued : ‘ I think Farmer Bolsover is mostly afraid that we might do damage to his crops by not keeping to the paths , or taking a fancy to the fruit in his orchard . ’ |
| 8 | You may need to remind the Chair of the length of the agenda or the point at issue if a speaker is not keeping to the matter at issue . |
| 9 | Second , it is clear from the Report that motorists are not keeping to the Park 's speed limits and are thereby abusing the privilege of vehicle access . |
| 10 | As a result he was reprimanded by Henry Ireton [ q.v. ] for airing his views unnecessarily and not keeping to the point . |
| 11 | Lord Lyon King of Arms , ultimate authority in these matters , declared that the arms were part of the fabric of the building and not relating to the occupants . |
| 12 | I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism . |
| 13 | In one of the few specific references to a member country , the G-7 statement said that the decline of the yen " was not contributing to the adjustment process " . |
| 14 | Barry Tuckett drove smoothly and quietly , not contributing to the conversation in the back seat , which was n't really a conversation but Bernice 's potted biography of Billy . |
| 15 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 16 | But more than one such mention , or a too heavily insisted on mention , especially when it is plain that it is not contributing to the whole , simply draws attention to the fact that you are producing fiction . |
| 17 | He should be at home in his father 's mansion , not listening to the ranting of some deranged maniac on the eve of what must surely be the one of the largest battles in the Empire 's history . |
| 18 | You 're going on er you 're not listening to the answers , you 're going too fast . |
| 19 | No , I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry , you 're not listening to the complaints of people , I am . |
| 20 | I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it . |
| 21 | Advantage of powering the receiver all the time the vehicle is moving is that , even though the driver is not listening to the receiver , it is continuously being updated by RDS data , in the same way as if the driver were listening to the CD player . |
| 22 | But I was not listening to the professor 's explanation . |
| 23 | Roskill J said that B was in breach of an implied duty in : ( a ) not communicating to the plaintiffs ' board the information which he received from the patent agents and in taking no steps to protect the plaintiffs against possible consequences of the existence of the patent ; and ( b ) using information regarding the patent for his own benefit . |
| 24 | But from Prime Minister to school dinner lady , married women are routinely classified not according to the work they do themselves , but by the work which is done by their husbands . |
| 25 | On the contrary , all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe . |
| 26 | That a language , whatever it be , not repress another ; that the subject may know without remorse , without repression , the bliss of having at his disposal two kinds of language ; that he may speak this or that , according to his perversions , not according to the Law . |
| 27 | Not according to the government . |
| 28 | New ways of coping can be shared , and solutions to problems can be found based on the values and ideas of their generation , not according to the views and attitudes of the modern world . |
| 29 | The question , for instance , whether the goods of a person who dies intestate ought to be divided among his relations according to the rules of English or of some foreign law , will be decided by an English court , not according to the citizenship , but according to the domicile of the deceased at the time of his death . |
| 30 | Not according to the judicator |