Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose we were old friends who were meeting again after not seeing each other for many years . |
| 2 | He says these new recruits to higher education , entering universities in large numbers are not seeing long-term change towards the market , so much as a reduced staff:student ratio , meaning less one-to-one contact , and larger , less frequent tutorial groups . |
| 3 | The owners are not seeing guilty behaviour when Rover slinks across the floor , they are seeing the submissive behaviour Rover displays in anticipation of the aggression , however mild , the owners are about to use in attempt to reprimand him . |
| 4 | and , you 're losing money , , if you 're not , if you 're not seeing any return you 're |
| 5 | It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty . |
| 6 | ‘ We understand the president-elect is not seeing any heads of government , ’ he said . |
| 7 | But , if only by default , through simply reading the text in terms of the text and not bringing outside considerations to bear , she , as does Barth , shores up its authority . |
| 8 | And as long as you 're I do n't care what star you 're following you 're not bringing those camel through my garden ! |
| 9 | We should be aiming for higher standards , not encouraging lower ones ’ , said Dr Caldwell . |
| 10 | Erm a light bulb is not using much electricity in a given time . |
| 11 | This trait was noted by fellow politicians such as Enoch Powell : ‘ [ Ted ] believes there is an answer to all problems which can be worked out by proper bureaucratic means — I 'm not using that word abusively for once — by the proper approach . |
| 12 | They made a big thing about us sort of not using one millimetre holes using |
| 13 | There were some differences between the groups , mainly in the recognition of black speakers who were not using Creole features of syntax or segmental phonology . |
| 14 | By not using nuclear weapons and with repeated assurances via the hotline of limited goals and negotiable conquests , the Russians face the president of the United states with ‘ agonising decisions ’ and he hesitates in making any nuclear commitment for several vital days . |
| 15 | He said that his company , which also provides needs-analysis for companies , taught ex-service personnel skills such as not using military terms in their curricula vitarum and interviews . |
| 16 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 17 | Some became pregnant through contraceptive failure , such as missing taking the Pill for a day , or a faulty condom , but most do it through not using any kind of contraception at all . |
| 18 | ‘ We managed to keep a live feel to the record firstly by not using any click tracks ; we recorded drums and acoustic rhythm guitar together to start each song off . |
| 19 | The builders are not using any nails in the construction , in an effort to build an authentic cultural centre . |
| 20 | So I encourage people to play entire solos , only using chord tones , not using any approach notes or scale notes at all , but only using the three or four basic notes of whatever the chord is . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , four out of five of them were not using any form of birth control . |
| 22 | Even those companies not using these products directly find that they are affected by the de facto standards introduced by IBM . |
| 23 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 24 | The company , which will hold shares in the recycling business and assist in the marketing of products , continues to be criticised by environmentalists for not using washable plates and cutlery . |
| 25 | Later , Crawford generously conceded to Sherrin that the decision was right and it was a lesson in not using substandard material . |
| 26 | By September contracts had been signed for the import of scarce food and consumer goods worth 43,000 million roubles , mostly on a barter or joint-enterprise basis ( that is , not using hard currency ) ; some of the imports were to meet the demands of striking miners [ see p. 36826 ] . |
| 27 | Data volumes can also be cut by not using full screen video . |
| 28 | I think that maybe the magistrates are not using enough deterrent shall we say . |
| 29 | But you , you 're right that if we stick to somewhere between six hundred and seven hundred as , as a erm even a basic kind of subsistence I E you 've just got enough in just , you , you 're just not using enough food to get yourself up to two hundred , two thousand calories a day at that rate you were still being taxed on , a at a rate of almost twenty percent of your , of your income . |
| 30 | It is that people are forgetting or just not using Andean technology , so they are exhausting the soil . |