Example sentences of "not [v-ing] with the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the planet 's surface you might think there is an eastward force , but there is n't , and if you were not rotating with the planet then this would be obvious . |
| 2 | Because of their different activity time clock , the owls are not competing with the hawks for the same food animals at the same time and can therefore co-exist . |
| 3 | The retention may also be used as a means of securing a vendor 's future obligations under the sale agreement or ancillary document such as not competing with the business or continuing to provide stocks and materials to the business . |
| 4 | The future is not interfering with the past ; instead , it is fulfilling its obligations , as it were , by bringing about events that have already been reported . |
| 5 | Health : THE CASE FOR NOT MEDDLING WITH THE NHS Whoever wins on Thursday , the only hope for the future of the health service lies in a period of stability , says Christine Doyle |
| 6 | My father was not going with the doctor because the operation would have much less chance of success if they were stopped on the way . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's not going with the bomb and the lugger . |
| 8 | you see , er , have some er , just a few comments , I mean I 'm not disagreeing with the outcome of that . |
| 9 | In recent months the City 's leading institutions have taken it in turns to come under fire : for regulatory failure , for losing money , for not moving with the times , or for lack of leadership . |
| 10 | The first principal reason for not proceeding with the Bill at this stage is that the European Commissioner rightly identified serious failures in the environmental impact assessment work which should have been carried out . |
| 11 | In ex parte Norwich City Council , the local authority were not proceeding with the sale of council houses as expeditiously as the minister wished . |
| 12 | However , MPs heard that Department of Employment officials got in touch with British Coal to discuss the legal implications of not consulting with the miners before making them redundant . |
| 13 | ‘ He was quite temperamental because of his perfectionism , and he was always concerned that there was something he was not doing with the material ; in other words , he blamed it on his delivery . ’ |
| 14 | John Hogan , managing director of LASMO North Sea , cited low oil prices , coupled with the marginal economic yield from the project , as the principal reasons for not continuing with the project at the moment . |
| 15 | The banks , threatened with the loss of many lucrative transactions ( and with expensive computer networks to maintain ) were not co-operating with the authorities , who talked of sending the police round to see that they did . |
| 16 | He was also at pains to stress that the Soviet Union had not been " bought " — it was not co-operating with the USA on the Gulf crisis in order to obtain economic aid . |
| 17 | ‘ You are telling me , Warrender , that my niece is not travelling with the Parslows ? |
| 18 | ‘ Your uncle Orrin tells us that you have been missing for months , not travelling with the Parslows as we thought , and when you surface again you have the gall to question us . ’ |
| 19 | In any case Payne 's case is not dealing with the Secretary of State 's decision on tariff . |
| 20 | Well , ye I 'm not dealing with the marketing people was I ? |
| 21 | We are not dealing with the Christ or Christos of theology , the figure who enjoys a very real and very puissant existence in the psyches and consciences of the faithful . |
| 22 | The Vienna Sales Convention has been criticized for not dealing with the passing of property or with priority conflicts between the seller/buyer and a third party . |
| 23 | One of the most important points of difference between language acquisition by human beings and the deficient parallel process in the case of the ape language experiments is , of course , that in the latter case one is not dealing with the acquisition by the young of a system employed already by conspecific elders . |
| 24 | And successful treatment is prolonging the lives of affected people — but not dealing with the causes or preventing them being affected in the first place . |
| 25 | Top pic : The WRONG way to link the bridle to the leading edge , not connecting with the cross-spar as in the lower pic where the bridle wraps both leading edge and cross-spar . |
| 26 | I am not talking with the benefit of hindsight when I say his success has not surprised me . |
| 27 | O. levis is now transferred to Ophiacantha from Ophiomitrella because the radial shields are thin and rib-like not integrating with the plates of the disk like Ophiomitrella species and the disk is covered with fine scales . |
| 28 | When cattle with brand marks not corresponding with the name of the seller were rejected , the owner went with a friend to a headman , and stated that he wanted to sell the animals to his friend . |
| 29 | But it was very clear that the Irish were not playing with the conviction they had demonstrated in Dunedin . |
| 30 | He warned : ‘ Our inspectors will be carrying out random checks in trading premises throughout Northern Ireland to identify those traders not complying with the order . ’ |