Example sentences of "and [not/n't] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , belonging may be gone by the board , historically speaking , she advises herself , wiping her face with this American paper dinner napkin and not wishing to be personal , to use a bygone phrase . |
| 2 | Not quite sure how to broach the subject , and not wishing to be indiscreet , she murmured awkwardly , ‘ I do n't quite know how to put this , but part of the reason for my visit was to try and trace someone who lived here a long time ago , only I do n't quite like to ask around , because the person I 'm looking for might not like it — might not want everyone to know her business . ’ |
| 3 | We may construct defences for our sensibility by being deliberately offensive , diminishing others and not listening to them . |
| 4 | Something ag again you when you 're doing it , in other areas of the industry if you 're not taught the structure you , you are not taught properly , you get these very bad habits and essential thing which is coming out by not following the structure in order I actually wrote down er by missing the business card and the buyer 's guide at the beginning , I was actually I 've got to slip this in somewhere and not listening to what you were saying and some of what you said went straight over my head which is bad because you 're missing things then . |
| 5 | I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it . |
| 6 | and not intending to er send things by first class post . |
| 7 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 8 | Alcohol taken in moderation is enjoyable and not damaging to health but the key word is MODERATION . |
| 9 | In Europe terrorist groups were bombing capitalist targets ; in London psychologists were saying you had to live your own life in your own way and not according to your family , or you 'd go mad . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A queue is a sequence of individuals , arranged according to time of arrival , and not according to size or strength , such that the first in the queue has prior access to some resource . |
| 12 | There 's a severe warning against those who ca n't do it in a spirit of of of , lardiness and , and not discerning to the body and and , and the will of Christ . |
| 13 | For instance , it would surely seem reasonable to suggest that a theory that anticipates and leads to the discovery of new phenomena , in the way Clerk Maxwell 's theory led to the discovery of radio waves , is more worthy of merit and more justifiable than a law or theory devised to account for phenomena already known and not leading to the discovery of new ones . |
| 14 | But she was guiltily aware that at least part of his reason for staying on the island so long and not returning to England was his hope of one day furthering their relationship . |
| 15 | Meal-times may be a signal for disruption to occur with children running around and not coming to the table to eat . |
| 16 | It comes ‘ from the notion that the beast , not caring to run and not needing to , can be shooed over the finish line , and win ’ . |
| 17 | Lord Lyon King of Arms , ultimate authority in these matters , declared that the arms were part of the fabric of the building and not relating to the occupants . |
| 18 | She was a , she was admitted to Hinchinbrook hospital , Huntingdon but was deeply unconscious and not responding to stimulus . |
| 19 | God is not ‘ up there ’ — not on a cloud , not in an upstairs heaven and not waiting to be glimpsed through the end of Laplace 's powerful telescope . |
| 20 | As a result he was reprimanded by Henry Ireton [ q.v. ] for airing his views unnecessarily and not keeping to the point . |
| 21 | Do you react well to stress , remaining fairly calm and not succumbing to anxiety or tenseness ? |
| 22 | But how you can expect people to become more sociable by just being , you know , shut behind closed walls , and and not having to actually , fend for themselves and cope with life outside prison walls . |
| 23 | Having gathered the data and not working to any specific time limit for analysis of the results or need to report , I found my self-discipline waning . |
| 24 | He was fined £100 and given a conditional discharge after he admitted theft , possession of a knife and not surrendering to court on an outstanding warrant . |
| 25 | quite happily and enjoying himself thoroughly and not going to school , which I think are are three excellent things . |
| 26 | It 's not going to be as accurate and not going to be as easy to read it off but |
| 27 | The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) assumes that I have been sitting drinking cups of coffee and not talking to people about the issues . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the coastline 's area is zero , so neither a one-dimensional nor a two-dimensional picture is appropriate , and in fact the way in which the length increases with resolution suggests a dimension D of about 1.2 The mathematics of sets of points with fractional dimensionality was developed in the early years of this century , but associated geometric objects were considered as ‘ pathological ’ and not corresponding to anything in Nature , Mandelbrot 's massive and single-minded achievement has been to convert this abstract formalism into a flourishing branch of applied mathematics , in three ways . |