Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] to the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As a result he was reprimanded by Henry Ireton [ q.v. ] for airing his views unnecessarily and not keeping to the point . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But I was not listening to the professor 's explanation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Not according to the government . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Not according to the judicator |
| 19 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ she asked mutinously , deliriously thankful that she had succeeded in not succumbing to the urge to blub her eyes out when she had dashed out of the living-room . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're not going to the Moon , you 're going to prison ! |
| 21 | You 're not going to the North , are you ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ No , we 're not going to the mainland . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I expect when you 're not going to the theatre — sometimes — and going to the cinema — sometimes — you 're having cosy little evenings in with Arnie ? ’ |
| 24 | Alright poppet , we we 're not going to vet we 're not going to the vet we 're not going to the vet I know you 'd like to but you ca n't . |
| 25 | Alright poppet , we we 're not going to vet we 're not going to the vet we 're not going to the vet I know you 'd like to but you ca n't . |
| 26 | This time , however , we were not going to the Consulate but driving straight to the border . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not going to the opening . |
| 28 | Oh , you 're not going to the help are you ? |
| 29 | After two days Sheila announced truculently , ‘ I 'm not going to the university . |
| 30 | ‘ I get criticised for not going to the cinema to see people 's reaction — but I 'm not there to review the audience . ’ |