Example sentences of "not [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They form a special class where , in the circumstances of the case , not helping is hindering . |
| 2 | The pastor who is not praying is playing ; the people who are not praying are straying . |
| 3 | The pastor who is not praying is playing ; the people who are not praying are straying . |
| 4 | Besides I see Tracey at the weekends so we can talk about that ’ , The bit she did not like was writing it up . |
| 5 | Many people who were not needed were leaving Liverpool each evening to sleep in the woods at Huyton or at various halls and cinemas on the outskirts of the city , but Julia was too frail to be moved . |
| 6 | Something inside me which I can not stop is whirling me faster and faster past beauty into oblivion . |
| 7 | And for a moment he was afraid that the huge grin he could not control was going to stretch his face permanently out of shape . |
| 8 | None of the children who did not recover were receiving medical care for symptoms of constipation at the time of follow up . |
| 9 | ‘ Cadet d'Arquebus ! ’ screamed the Chaplain , suffused with a righteous rage which he may or may not have been simulating . |
| 10 | Not only is AT&T probably paying too much , it should not have been trying to buy the firm in the first place . |
| 11 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |
| 12 | A High Court judge held that there was no basic statutory provision of education , so that if an LEA had ( instead of , as in this case , charging for it ) decided to cut music tuition altogether ( because of financial constraints ) it would not have been acting illegally . |
| 13 | ‘ Look for balding , bearded men , ’ I nearly said — but he may not have been looking for precisely that variety of technical person . |
| 14 | Esau can not have been expecting such remorse , such willingness to make amends from Jacob . |
| 15 | No , it might not have been counting when I think of it , cos it 'd be one guide coming out . |
| 16 | Killion should not have been flying ; he was supposed to be on reserve . |
| 17 | Horses would not have been lacking in the Isle of Wight . |
| 18 | But without Violet Blake , this match would not have been taking place . |
| 19 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 20 | My friend says I should not have been taking this drug during my pregnancy and that it is well known that it can cause these problems . |
| 21 | Many of them will not have been earning enough to pay national insurance , so will not qualify for unemployment benefit — and will not affect the unemployment statistics . |
| 22 | This aspect is something that has increased in importance with the rise of inflation because there are very few cases where the deceased would not have been earning more by the date of trial than he was earning at the date of his death . |
| 23 | If she had searched his bedroom earlier , she thought ruefully , she would not have been shivering on the pavement in a black pullover and jeans at two o'clock in the morning , carrying a large screwdriver . |
| 24 | A human being who suffers a fatal heart attack when out walking in a wood would not have been setting out to ‘ die alone ’ . |
| 25 | An initial point is that the LDDC could not have been operating in a more favourable environment . |
| 26 | ‘ He may not have been working on it ; more likely he was deciding how to frame it . ’ |
| 27 | Sheriff Risk rejected suggestions that the Sikorsky should not have been landing on a restricted helideck . |
| 28 | What , you might not have been going to ask but I 'll tell you anyway , was their favourite food ? |
| 29 | Technically , Harvard dealers should not have been selling stock to clients who had not dealt three times with the company , unless they had sent out written information about the stock . |
| 30 | The Crown said Wilson co-operated fully with detectives and although the total amount of drugs had a street value of £40,000 , the ‘ relative margins ’ for each link in the chain meant Wilson would not have been making significant money . |