Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No player not appearing in that particular game dared put his face round the door . |
| 2 | 1984 ) of 13135 children born in 1970 , found that one in ten five-year-olds were not living with both natural parents . |
| 3 | Erm it , we 've covered some of it , the rest , er , again , because we 're not looking at such large large sums , you know , as Cover Master for Home Health Checks and things like that , erm , but , basically , no . |
| 4 | A middle-aged woman , matronly in appearance and , thought Tony , not looking at all comical , went straight into a saucy monologue about an amorous coalman who left dusty handprints on various parts of his lady customers ' anatomies . |
| 5 | By now certain that Meehan and Griffiths were the murderers of Mrs Ross , the Crown Office in Edinburgh issued a statement that with Griffiths 's death and Meehan 's arrest , they were not looking for any other suspects in connection with the Ayr murder — thus , said Nicky , prejudging the very issue that was to come to trial . |
| 6 | Police say they found a hammer in the house and are not looking for any other weapon . |
| 7 | I am looking for a Leeds United match programme … not looking for any particular but I would prefer the most recent or a forthcoming copy . |
| 8 | They are not looking for some chopped-down Open University course . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 're not listening to that old yarn , surely ? |
| 10 | Some 11 % of interlending in UK is ‘ direct ’ lending between two libraries — i.e. not passing through any formal network . |
| 11 | If the syndicates running off their contracts were aware of the problems that were going to occur and did not inform Outhwaite , then they were not acting in utmost good faith . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | We have been involved in research of a very similar nature for some time , and although we are not publishing in such august journals as The Phyrologist you may be interested to learn of our most recent advance . |
| 14 | And yet , I 'm restless , for we are definitely not going into any present campaign , and the future seems a little empty . |
| 15 | Will hon. Members please leave the Chamber quietly if they are not remaining for this ten-minute motion ? |
| 16 | He let go and she stood up , waving her arms and not sounding at all pleased . |
| 17 | I was not aiming for any distant target , and nor does natural selection . |
| 18 | You are not aiming for some exact scientific precision ( if absolute precision is needed , you can use pen and paper ) , but you are meeting and communicating with another adult human being . |
| 19 | Children 2–11 years inclusive not sharing with two full fare passengers : reduction 25% . |
| 20 | When we talk about part-time holdings in any context — certainly in an island context — we are not speaking about small static parcels of land with which we can play about like pieces in a jig-saw puzzle . |
| 21 | Truly ungrammatical sentences are regarded as not resulting from any regular grammatical process ( e.g. ‘ I 've seen it happen is two girls fight . ’ ) . |
| 22 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 23 | He was already handing her the piece of paper which certified that she was in good health and not suffering from any infectious disease . |
| 24 | As fat women we are punished for not conforming to conventional feminine ideals . |
| 25 | I was not dealing with that important overall view , which the hon. Gentleman also expressed at length yesterday . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He says SunSoft is ‘ not betting on any single technology , ’ and will support other players , apart from SunSelect , too . |
| 28 | After the initial course it is advisable to have an occasional lesson every so often as a reminder and a check that you are not falling into any bad habits without realizing it . |
| 29 | Schools which were not thinking in such adventurous terms should easily be able to avoid ‘ a narrow and unproductive concentration ’ on the three core subjects of English , maths and science . |
| 30 | So she was not feeling at all friendly to Naylor when , shortly after breakfast , they left Parkwood . |