Example sentences of "is not [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need a government which is not afraid of playing its part , a government that is not clinging to some of the apparent certainties of the Cold War but one that is willing to step off the sidelines and help ensure that through co-operation between East and West we can move from the two old Europes to the one new Europe with stability . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , by ‘ obey ’ Paul is not referring to servile obedience to an authoritarian master , but an injunction to workers to carry out the job an employer has for them to accomplish . |
| 3 | ‘ Singapore is not competing with these countries but promoting all ASEAN countries so that the region as a whole can offer the full range of resources and become a global economic power , ’ said Mr Lee . |
| 4 | MILLIONS are staked every week but officially this is not gambling at all . |
| 5 | Eraut ( 1977 ) adopts a process viewpoint when he argues that : ‘ A teacher who is not developing to any noticeable extent is becoming a worse teacher , because development is natural and to avoid it is to deteriorate ’ . |
| 6 | But the positive interest of an agent is some guarantee that your work is not passing by unnoticed . |
| 7 | But then comes a statement about Christ which seems to emanate not from a rational clever man trying to help us to understand things more clearly , but from a rhetorical trickster who is not thinking at all . |
| 8 | The programme is not binding on any of the signatories but is likely to influence the lending and spending of Western donors . |
| 9 | The decision of the Divisional Court in the Manchester Corporation case is not binding on this court and , although it may in the event have reached a conclusion with which I would now agree , I find the reasoning by which that conclusion was reached wholly unconvincing . |
| 10 | Further , it is not binding on this court . |
| 11 | If a child subject to an EPO is not living in local authority accommodation , inquiries should establish whether it would be in the child 's best interests to be moved ( s47(3) ( b ) ) . |
| 12 | But if it is not calling for immediate independence , or for unity with Romania , the Popular Front is certainly demanding sovereign autonomy for Moldavia and a renewal of national culture and identity . |
| 13 | This government is not believing in integrated strategy , it never has done and it never will do and with the current the Government expansion plans it is becoming less and less likely . |
| 14 | Gettier here is not quarrelling with any of the three clauses . |
| 15 | The examiner is not looking for technical perfection and certainly would not find it in many candidates ' answers to this question . |
| 16 | Now , speaking in tongues is not the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is not speaking with other tongues , but they go together . |
| 17 | I have tried to show in this discussion that higher learning is not learning at all in any familiar sense . |
| 18 | A spokesman for Shearson said UK staff would not be affected and the group is not withdrawing from any area of business . |
| 19 | In practice , it is standard for agreements to seek to exclude any liability for pre-contractual representations by including entire agreement provisions under which the acquirer confirms that it is not relying on any representations , etc. other than those included in the agreement . |
| 20 | For this reason it is normal for the vendor to define precisely which documents comprise the sale agreement and to ensure the purchaser acknowledges that it is not relying on any statements of fact unless contained in these documents . |
| 21 | If that real convergence is to be achieved , it will be necessary for the Community and member states to have worked out , and agreed to implement , regional and structural policies that — in the words of the draft treaty — ’ promote balanced development ’ ; but the Prime Minister is not negotiating for that either . |
| 22 | Colm feels that one of the most common mistakes beginners make is not going in close enough on the subject matter . |
| 23 | That 's not going till one forty five and the one th er twenty five Manchester Victoria is not going till one thirty nine and the one twenty Manchester Airport is n't going till one twenty eight but there 's no big deal about any of that really so most of the trains are on time that you . |
| 24 | But it is not working like that . |
| 25 | If it is not working in that time then the chart should be discontinued . |
| 26 | Overeating through boredom is a greater danger , so you should monitor the patient quite carefully to make sure he is not putting on excess weight . |
| 27 | Lawrence Kasdan 's latest film , Grand Canyon ( Odeon , West End , from 1 May ) , is not reassuring at all . |
| 28 | The child who is cast in role as abbot of the cathedral is not identifying with some fictitious character called ‘ Abbot ’ , he is merely taking on an abbot 's function vis-à-vis the situation of being in charge of other people in the community , just as the football captain in a game is not playing a ‘ character ’ of a football captain , he is functioning in the required role of being in charge of his team . |
| 29 | Ruether 's , if she is not saying in any sense of Christ that he is unique , surely can not be said to be so . |
| 30 | Just consider , for a moment , all the things a person is not doing during those seven hours they spend in front of the set each day . |