Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not want to be handing our paper profits back to the Government . ’ |
| 2 | He did not want to be backing anything other than the North Yorkshire and South Durham League B Division 's number one wicketkeeper . |
| 3 | Some of the things we have listed ( such as Weetabix or baked beans ) have sugar in them anyway so ideally you do not want to be adding even more sugar to breakfast meals . |
| 4 | When he was consecrated , however , Cranmer made a public protestation that any oath which he took acknowledging the authority of the Pope was not intended to be binding if it were against the law of God or the King 's prerogatives , nor would it bind him to be less free in reformation of the Church . |
| 5 | A person does not need to be acting involuntarily ( see Chapter 4 ) to be guilty of this form of manslaughter . |
| 6 | The report 's contents are not expected to be damaging to the government . |
| 7 | Belinda , five , had n't expected to see Santa yesterday — but then her mother and father , Gill and Paul , had not expected to be celebrating at the hospital . |
| 8 | When he left his home this morning he had not expected to be carrying Lestrade of the Yard and Sherlock Holmes , and was by no means certain he was ready for this responsibility . |
| 9 | It seemed a funny sort of freedom to me when all you saw was poor people working like crazy and getting poorer and rich people not appearing to be doing much of anything except remaining quietly rich |
| 10 | But bearing in mind the unfortunate consequences of his earlier correspondence , he was probably anxious not to appear to be supporting his own cause . |
| 11 | but when I got the car back on to the road , I mean I 'm a , a complete bag of nerves and I 'm , I 'm not wanting to be walking along the , the edge of the bypass at one o'clock in the morning |
| 12 | Penny Duce of the Poetry Library , who recently visited Lending Services said that the Library would be pleased to accept requests for books on BL forms , but that she did not expect to be borrowing material for SPL itself . |
| 13 | 3 If you are coming back from injury or lay-off , go slowly — train progressively and do not expect to be doing the same times as you were before . |
| 14 | I am glad that the Minister does not appear to be accepting a quota system for other products , but how will he deal with our not being self-sufficient ? |
| 15 | The theory seems to have a middle class bias in that it assumes that all criminal and rule-breakers accept and cherish middle-class goals , but many delinquent activities do not appear to be aiming for material gains . |
| 16 | Consistent with this , the results of recent research on Kuwait oil fires indicate that the smoke did not appear to be rising high enough to reach the stratosphere , where transport may occur over considerable distances with soot particles remaining for months . |
| 17 | The latter two did not appear to be speaking to each other , and Sid and Algernon were prowling round each other like lean and hungry panthers waiting for an opportunity to strike . |
| 18 | He did not appear to be reading it . |
| 19 | The dark gaze looked back at her , hard to decipher , though at least she could see he did not appear to be joking . |
| 20 | Examples are provided of the use of medication , including stopping such treatment when it does not appear to be helping a patient . |
| 21 | Oil does not appear to be emanating from either the filler cap or the dip stick tube and no obvious cause is apparent . |
| 22 | Wexford was listening with concentration , but he did not appear to be listening at all . |
| 23 | Cassie did not appear to be listening . |
| 24 | When I first met the car manufacturers , they did not appear to be taking the matter very seriously at all , but my last meeting with them revealed that they are now much more prepared to make their cars more secure . |
| 25 | She said that the public were becoming agitated because the council did not appear to be taking the toughest line possible . |
| 26 | Inside Cambodia , Khmer Rouge guerrillas do not appear to be planning any big offensives against the towns . |
| 27 | As it happens , the telephone does not appear to be working . |
| 28 | However , these children did demonstrate the ability to shift or switch strategies if the one in force did not appear to be working — e.g. , ( 4 ) : |
| 29 | The monitoring of staff who take time-off due to sickness does not appear to be working well . |
| 30 | The noise did not appear to be coming from any particular direction . |