Example sentences of "not [be] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Keynes had talked of the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ he had not been thinking of cricket , but the MCC had to face the reality of the decline of the leisured classes . |
| 2 | ( Jacques had not been living at home at least from 1707 , the year his Principes was published , which gives his address as rue Christine . ) |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Taylor has completed ignored the fact that Catholics have been under the jackboot of the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and it is ridiculous to say that they have not been living in fear . ’ |
| 4 | Remember the riot that broke out at Leeds towards the end of the 1970-71 season when Ray Tinkler allowed a West Bromwich goal to stand , ruling that Colin Suggett , standing offside when the attack crossed the halfway line , had not been interfering with play . |
| 5 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 6 | ‘ Llanelli was a setback , and we are not sure of our best Test side , but we will not be wanting in confidence . ’ |
| 7 | It follows that the person — doctor , nurse , or other — who complied with the request that treatment be withdrawn , provided he acted in good faith , would not be acting in violation of the criminal law . |
| 8 | Graeme Souness had ensured this fourth round replay would not be lacking in spice by making disparaging remarks about Palace 's muscular approach in the 1-1 draw at Anfield two weeks ago . |
| 9 | Surely , I thought , he can not be reflecting with pleasure on days of danger and incarceration ? |
| 10 | They may not be looking for treatment or rehabilitation but er what we can offer them is clean injecting equipment er free condoms , because H I V is transmitted sexually as well , probably more than , more often than in Oxfordshire , er and also we have been prescribing from an assessment clinic in the city centre . |
| 11 | say it , even if he gets C Ds , he 's not be getting into college is he ? |
| 12 | You ca n't have grown that high in eighteen years , stood up to all those gales , frosts , rain and hail , and not be bounding with energy . ’ |
| 13 | I conceive that the promise would not be binding for want of a previous request by the testator . |
| 14 | Whatever it might be for you , but something that you 're going to have to be thinking about , and while you 're thinking about that you can not be thinking about work . |
| 15 | After thanking the committee for their work during the year , Mr. King announced that John Edelsten , John Sayer and Eddie Bryant would not be standing for re-election . |
| 16 | A TORY county councillor will not be standing for re-election next month because he fears his business affairs could lead to his disqualification from office . |
| 17 | President Francesco Cossiga , 63 , who had been elected in July 1985 , had made it clear that he would not be standing for re-election . |
| 18 | After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war . |
| 19 | After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war . |
| 20 | I for one shall not be waiting with hope a-beating in my breast when Manchester 's Most Indolent resume their careers — DQ |
| 21 | Mrs. McKenzie , whose mother was also a member of Grayshott Good Companions , will be very sorry to leave the Thursday afternoon friends she has known for so long — but she will not be sitting at home alone as she is going to Grayshott 's weekly day centre . |
| 22 | Were it to do so , literally hundreds of thousands of people would tonight not be sitting at home frightened about whether they might be dragged into the courts and on to prison . |
| 23 | Can I remind you we will not be sitting after lunch tomorrow , but what I would hope is we could probably deal with C and E in the morning , b by one o'clock . |
| 24 | His silence about Megara is not complete : Pericles is described as telling the Athenians that they will not be going to war over a trifle , if they refuse to rescind the Megarian decree as the Spartans demand . |
| 25 | The clever Canaries may not be brimming with university honours but assistant manager John Deehan revealed : ‘ We have got a set of very intelligent players — and it would be naive of myself and the manager not to take their advice . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I told him you would not be returning to Milano for a few days . ’ |
| 27 | The wounded and disabled , of course , would not be returning from work or anywhere . |
| 28 | In the long run it does not work ; if it did , the parents would not be asking for advice . |
| 29 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 30 | She had again unwittingly revealed her misgivings , for on the face of it we had n't been speaking of marriage . |