Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reliance of elderly people on walking as a mode of transport increases their exposure to risk whilst their failing faculties raise the likelihood of them not seeing the striking vehicle . |
| 2 | not seeing the only point of being there |
| 3 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 4 | This produces the stress of tiring ambulance journeys , the long wait in the clinic and not seeing the same staff at each visit . |
| 5 | Just because some of them do n't know their arse from their elbow does n't mean that we 're not bringing the whole thing under control . ’ |
| 6 | I shall merely be requesting information about a taste which puzzles me , not demanding a further reason without which the whole string of answers will prove to be baseless . |
| 7 | Therefore , if we can not detect a particular coded message in an animal , there is no reason to say that they are not transmitting the particular message by some other means . |
| 8 | With this lot , we 've got A add B , that 's one number , take away A minus B. That 's going to come to A add B , A take away A or A minus A and then take away A minus B , taking away A minus B is the same as adding a B. So the A take away A go out and this comes to two B. Now this is not using a long way , a long way round to do it . |
| 9 | Patients with severe cardiorespiratory , renal , hepatic , neurological , or malignant disease were also excluded , together with women of childbearing age not using a reliable means of contraception . |
| 10 | Hobbes is not using an inductive argument here ; the ‘ possibility apparent ’ is not an inductive argument from observations about past children but is meant to refer to some discernible feature of present ones . |
| 11 | Not using the above sequence . |
| 12 | I had a particular gift with the tarot cards … not using the traditional interpretations which are given on the back of any £5-pack from W H Smiths . |
| 13 | Due to the way VMS handles privilege allocation , the entire command procedure must leave all the privileges set until the Exit option is selected — and this means not using the lexical function F$SETPRV , as this will remove a privilege which is default but not authorised . |
| 14 | He must get this right , not make a fool of himself by stumbling over the words , not using the correct terminology or not knowing which fish he wanted . |
| 15 | When the other industry ( meals ) is untaxed and in competitive equilibrium , we showed in the last section that the marginal cost of producing films is exactly the value of the marginal utility sacrificed by not using the same resources to produce more meals . |
| 16 | If you are not using the original version , you should say so ( e.g. by noting " second edition " or " reprinted version " or " facsimile " ) . |
| 17 | She knew it annoyed Mrs. Mott , which was why she had agreed so peaceably to the girls not using the main staircase and the hall of the house to get to their sessions . |
| 18 | Not realising the long-term strategy behind the offer , Haslam turned it down , regarding it as an inferior job for someone with his mining engineering skills . |
| 19 | We could kick ourselves for not realising the obvious distinction . |
| 20 | It was a sad but inevitable outcome of not maintaining a proper balance between productivity and personality . |
| 21 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 22 | Themes for fairs are often chosen well in advance of opening dates , so they run the danger of not reflecting the subsequent realities of the marketplace . |
| 23 | BEFORE the Oakland Athletics began their American League Championship series against the Toronto Blue Jays it was said that the team had a crucial flaw : when their celebrated home-run hitters were not peppering the upper decks , the A 's supposedly found it tough to manufacture runs base by base with base hits , steals and sacrifice flies . |
| 24 | NEXT time you have a craving for yet another chocolate bar or long for a stream of passionate sexual encounters , be careful you 're not nursing a potential addiction . |
| 25 | Those commentators who blame Labour for not pursuing an alternative set of more socially just proposals in the conditions of August 1931 ought rather to blame the electorate for not giving Labour sufficient support to form a majority government in 1929 . |
| 26 | They do agree , as a minimum , that there is a strong presumption against the use of nuclear weapons ; and that nuclear weapons must be subject , at the very minimum , to certain basic laws of war rules on such matters as not targeting the civilian populations as such . |
| 27 | And from a wider point of view , We 're not helping the genuine trader . |
| 28 | If sound insulation is also needed , glass fibre matting can be inserted between boards and walls , although to be really effective , this needs a separate timber frame , adjacent to , but not touching the separating wall . |
| 29 | Not allowing the primary sufferer to be inappropriately involved in food preparation . |
| 30 | Again he 's probably not eating the right things . |