Example sentences of "not [adv] taking " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wan na be careful there because I 'm not tak I 'm not necessarily taking those . |
| 2 | Often , people who hesitate to come into the world of education — perhaps because English is not their first language , because education has not been highlighted as important in their households or because they missed an opportunity earlier in life — can come into adult education , not necessarily taking vocational courses in the first instance , but going on to take such courses , which provide them with the training and self-assurance they need . |
| 3 | As the government and many local authorities are striving to make the operation of the system quick , simple for the lay user and an encouragement to development when it is employment-related , so the public is not only taking a greater interest in its immediate environment , historic buildings and countryside and conservation generally , but is increasingly using the planning system to try to achieve its aims . |
| 4 | He was about to experiment with a drastic remedy — not only taking his own advice but overriding that ‘ occasionally ’ by cohabiting with a prostitute as a common law wife . |
| 5 | The many days spent not only taking oral and written evidence but taking part in the interesting innovation of seminars in which all the participants in the criminal justice system could come together and discuss the issues convinced him that there was no call and no advocate for the creation of a specific offence . |
| 6 | Specifically , this means not only taking into account man 's obvious close evolutionary ties with the chimpanzee and gorilla , but also his rather less obvious resemblance to another primate , the gelada baboon . |
| 7 | That is em if nothing happens , if the survivor , if the person being abused does n't do anything , then the abuse carries on and the abuser y'know continues to regularly perform this these acts of abuse , whatever they might be , and erm stopping it is something that er usually involves the , in inverted commas , victim , taking control of the situ well no no well not exactly taking control but trying to do something about it er making more fuss about it to other people , moving out of the house , as sometimes happens when people are adolescents . |
| 8 | He accomplished the most difficult of all sporting tasks : not just taking his team to the top but keeping it there . |
| 9 | But these changes are not just taking place at regional level . |
| 10 | When older people think of the past they are not just taking stock of their lives but trying to decide what to do with the time that they have left , and trying to do so in relation to concluding or making sense of what has gone before . |
| 11 | Not just taking me for a ride ? ’ |
| 12 | Erm , not just taking a back seat , we need to actually promote these . |
| 13 | You had a turn out then and I think it lasted till the next spring , not like taking curtains up and down like people do now and hoover for the carpets , course the carpet would be taken out and beaten as you as you know , they were n't they were slung onto a line and beaten with anything that was handy . |
| 14 | Well that lady gets punished but then he 's not like taking this so sort of view that there 's any sort of order in the world . |
| 15 | And Leicester understandably though not legally taking their time there . |
| 16 | They were concerned to be caring and look after him at this time of tragedy , and he was just not really taking in what had happened . |
| 17 | That erm you know , whatever you do , is very little , and we 're not really taking the pressure off , very much . |
| 18 | I must confess to not really taking in Rocky at his best , so I do nt know what his potential is . |
| 19 | ‘ Reducing car tax is not really taking on board the long term interests , ’ he said . |
| 20 | I 'm not even taking the next game for granted . |
| 21 | They are not even taking enforcement order now . |
| 22 | ‘ One felt at times they were not fully taking in how serious our problem was , ’ he said . |
| 23 | In this poem you get the feeling that Owen is not actually taking part in this but he has seen it happening before and so , unlike all the rest , it is not completely based on his own experience . |