Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 2 | He will want you at home , not always running about to meetings . ’ |
| 3 | By the time of the abolition measures of 1806 and 1807 abolitionists had failed to convince their opponents that they were not also looking forward to emancipation . |
| 4 | Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone . |
| 5 | But I mean , one of the major problems is a fact , these youth training programmes or Y , YP 's as they call them , are alright but they 're not really getting down to the basic er training we need ! |
| 6 | He was not particularly looking forward to it . |
| 7 | Both of them appear to suffer from a form of mental myopia in imagining the consequences of such proposals , and I am not here referring only to Mill-type consequences of harm brought about by unwise decisions . |