Example sentences of "not [v-ing] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the parent finds difficulty in not reacting to the child while in ‘ time out ’ on the chair , it may be better for the child to be placed in a safe separate room for the equivalent time .
2 It must be because I 'm not reacting to the socket like the receptionist would .
3 Many slimmers make this an excuse for not sticking to the diet , but I find it much easier being away from the kitchen and the kettle !
4 But we 're not pandering it 's not pandering to the kids !
5 Maritz is not returning to the L.P.G.A. She will play in Europe again next season , by which stage she believes that she will have gathered sufficient experience to fix her sights on America .
6 The new factory nearby is not keeping to the noise levels originally agreed , and heavy traffic continues to and from it late into the night .
7 Brownie Owl continued : ‘ I think Farmer Bolsover is mostly afraid that we might do damage to his crops by not keeping to the paths , or taking a fancy to the fruit in his orchard . ’
8 You may need to remind the Chair of the length of the agenda or the point at issue if a speaker is not keeping to the matter at issue .
9 Second , it is clear from the Report that motorists are not keeping to the Park 's speed limits and are thereby abusing the privilege of vehicle access .
10 As a result he was reprimanded by Henry Ireton [ q.v. ] for airing his views unnecessarily and not keeping to the point .
11 Lord Lyon King of Arms , ultimate authority in these matters , declared that the arms were part of the fabric of the building and not relating to the occupants .
12 I think it 's sometimes falsely represented as being academic or being unreal or as not relating to the masses of women 's lives , and it 's out of my own experience I just want to be clear about this , it 's out of my own experience as an incest survivor , as a pornography survivor , my father worked in the porn industry , that I came to revolutionary feminism .
13 In one of the few specific references to a member country , the G-7 statement said that the decline of the yen " was not contributing to the adjustment process " .
14 Barry Tuckett drove smoothly and quietly , not contributing to the conversation in the back seat , which was n't really a conversation but Bernice 's potted biography of Billy .
15 M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts .
16 But more than one such mention , or a too heavily insisted on mention , especially when it is plain that it is not contributing to the whole , simply draws attention to the fact that you are producing fiction .
17 You 're not listening to a word we 're saying , you 've done sponge , that 's good , now what else float ?
18 It 's easy to forget that you are not listening to a mate in a pub telling her latest , raucous , embellished anecdotes .
19 He should be at home in his father 's mansion , not listening to the ranting of some deranged maniac on the eve of what must surely be the one of the largest battles in the Empire 's history .
20 You 're going on er you 're not listening to the answers , you 're going too fast .
21 No , I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry , you 're not listening to the complaints of people , I am .
22 I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it .
23 Advantage of powering the receiver all the time the vehicle is moving is that , even though the driver is not listening to the receiver , it is continuously being updated by RDS data , in the same way as if the driver were listening to the CD player .
24 But I was not listening to the professor 's explanation .
25 Tolkien was not writing to a thesis .
26 Roskill J said that B was in breach of an implied duty in : ( a ) not communicating to the plaintiffs ' board the information which he received from the patent agents and in taking no steps to protect the plaintiffs against possible consequences of the existence of the patent ; and ( b ) using information regarding the patent for his own benefit .
27 Private cars are not permitted to use the access road and indeed can not cross via the pedestrian ferry , but in summer months a minibus takes visitors from the ferry to the lighthouse , a service not operating to a timetable and needing to be confirmed by advance enquiry .
28 But from Prime Minister to school dinner lady , married women are routinely classified not according to the work they do themselves , but by the work which is done by their husbands .
29 On the contrary , all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe .
30 That a language , whatever it be , not repress another ; that the subject may know without remorse , without repression , the bliss of having at his disposal two kinds of language ; that he may speak this or that , according to his perversions , not according to the Law .
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