Example sentences of "not [v-ing] to [art] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As a result he was reprimanded by Henry Ireton [ q.v. ] for airing his views unnecessarily and not keeping to the point . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You 're not listening to a word we 're saying , you 've done sponge , that 's good , now what else float ? |
| 11 | It 's easy to forget that you are not listening to a mate in a pub telling her latest , raucous , embellished anecdotes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But I was not listening to the professor 's explanation . |
| 15 | Tolkien was not writing to a thesis . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Not according to the government . |
| 21 | The question , for instance , whether the goods of a person who dies intestate ought to be divided among his relations according to the rules of English or of some foreign law , will be decided by an English court , not according to the citizenship , but according to the domicile of the deceased at the time of his death . |
| 22 | Not according to the judicator |
| 23 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ she asked mutinously , deliriously thankful that she had succeeded in not succumbing to the urge to blub her eyes out when she had dashed out of the living-room . |
| 24 | and if you 're not going to a game tomorrow … you can switch Central on at tea time for all the football news … we 're heading off now to Milton Keynes for a story of adventure for our Friday Feature |
| 25 | If there was a doubt then he would be better not going to a grammar school |
| 26 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |
| 27 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're not going to the Moon , you 're going to prison ! |
| 29 | You 're not going to the North , are you ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ No , we 're not going to the mainland . ’ |