Example sentences of "not doing so " in BNC.
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| 1 | But managing director Mr Peter Jarvis admitted : ‘ Because of the squeeze on spending , retailing , particularly in the South-east , is not doing so well as we had hoped . ’ |
| 2 | If the box is overfull , then the overdrive seals are having to cope with excessive quantities of oil and are not doing so . |
| 3 | Crosland opposed this , and thought Crossman ‘ crazy ’ for not doing so as well . |
| 4 | The reasons are that even a partly defective vapour barrier can still be effective , and preservative treatment to timber is carried out , following the disastrous effects of not doing so during the 1960s and early 1970s . |
| 5 | Unless you are given convincing reasons for not doing so , insist on a reduction |
| 6 | They will be able to weigh up the advantages of breaking a law and not doing so ; and they will tend to choose the former path if it seems likely to secure economic and career advancement . |
| 7 | Not doing so only damages us . |
| 8 | The state assumes that they are not doing so and gives increases on all of the additional pension as if you had never been contracted out . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's not doing so bad either . ’ |
| 10 | In England the codes of the Anglo-Saxon kings , although they covered only a fraction of the area covered by custom , and although they contained numerous traditional items , involved some new legislation and made little pretence of not doing so . |
| 11 | The results of not doing so are all too obvious . |
| 12 | The decision lies between the possibility of losing future business by stopping supplies or of running the risk of a bad debt or a slow paying debt by not doing so . |
| 13 | That in itself was a minor triumph for the Popular Front agitation ; Chamberlain moved partly because he feared the domestic consequences of not doing so . |
| 14 | Fish which respond to herbal treatment are not doing so because they think they should get better . |
| 15 | One good reason for not doing so is that ‘ grandmother cell ’ models have real difficulty in explaining how our visual systems cope with novel input . |
| 16 | It also shows that , when Russian enterprises reacted to the reforms by jacking up prices and withholding output , they were not doing so because they could not adapt to the bewildering change around them ; they were reacting to the incentives they faced , which said that goods were stores of value while money was not . |
| 17 | In the end , Matza 's argument is not so much an attack on correctionalism as an assertion of the not very original point that , whatever your starting assumption , it is best to keep your mind open to all possibilities ( although he was right to draw attention to the fact that correctionalists had often been guilty of not doing so ) . |
| 18 | To feel this we need to be sure that other people are making similar sacrifices or , if they are not , that there are acceptable grounds for their not doing so . |
| 19 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |
| 20 | That this is the case stands , quite independently of the reasons which may have been given for not doing so in the past , reasons which may or may not appear cogent today . |
| 21 | He could think he was following the rule , when he was in fact not doing so ; the new sensation could seem to resemble the original one , when it does not resemble it in fact . |
| 22 | ( 4 ) Subsection ( 3 ) above does not apply where a society or associated body is authorised by the scheme to relieve itself of its obligation to take the steps it is directed to take or pay the compensation awarded by the society 's undertaking an obligation to give the requisite publicity for the reasons for not doing so and the society undertakes that obligation . |
| 23 | Young people 's knowledge about the harmful effects of smoking is considerable ; those who take up smoking are not doing so purely out of ignorance . |
| 24 | ‘ Those services which normally refer clients to us are not doing so because the local authority concerned does not have a contract with Roma or are struggling to sort out their assessment procedures , ’ he said . |
| 25 | That Aethelberht , king of Kent , exercised authority over his brother , Eadberht , is clear from the way in which it was necessary for Ealdwulf , bishop of Rochester , to secure confirmation of a grant of land from Eadberht in 738 from Aethelberht and Nothhelm , archbishop of Canterbury , acknowledging that he had erred in not doing so sooner ( CS 159 : S 27 ) , but nothing is said of any necessity to secure Aethelbald 's confirmation . |
| 26 | This year he was not doing so , claiming that he had left it too late to make arrangements . |
| 27 | When she had gone Scarlet began to peel courgettes , worrying the while whether she was not doing so prematurely : if she left them thus denuded , exposed to the air , they would discolour , while if she immersed them in water , their vitamin C content would dissipate . |
| 28 | The risk of confronting the disease may be the possible death of the sufferer ; the risk of not doing so may be his or her almost certain death from the progression of the disease . |
| 29 | ( vii ) Where the chairman holds a proxy requiring him to vote for a particular resolution , if no one else proposes that resolution , he must do so unless he considers that there is good reason for not doing so ( r 6.89 ) . |
| 30 | This contrasts strongly with higher education in the USA where institutional ‘ mission statements ’ are regarded as selling points , and key senior administrative staff may be hired to further achievement of specific goals ; and fired for demonstrably not doing so . |