Example sentences of "not be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack . |
| 2 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 3 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 4 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 5 | However , a substantial proportion of the long-term cases are children who have been taken into care against the wishes of their parents because they have not been receiving adequate care or control . |
| 6 | ‘ Others have not been getting initial appointments and have not been put on waiting lists because they are so long . |
| 7 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 8 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 9 | Sophia wished her sister had not been wearing tartan trews , but it would never do to say anything . |
| 10 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 11 | Keith Speed , MP , the former Admiralty Under Secretary , said on television ( BBC Newsnight ) that he would have been astonished if those ships , from Exercise spring Train , had not been carrying nuclear weapons . |
| 12 | Such was the emotion caused by the attack that it was some time before any of the defenders recalled that the Collector had not been feeling well and wondered what had become of him . |
| 13 | My wife and I are staying at the Danieli , but she 's not been feeling well and urged me to take up the offer of an observer 's seat here . ’ |
| 14 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 15 | ‘ We have not been running this campaign as an entertainment for our dear friends in the press and broadcasting media . |
| 16 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 17 | Do you think I have not been following all that you have done and all that has been done to you all these months ? ’ |
| 18 | But the CLE had not been practising racial discrimination . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've not been putting any in . ’ |
| 20 | I would have fled if the Earl 's retainers had not been standing right behind me . |
| 21 | The world outside Whitehall had not been standing still since Thorneycroft took over . |
| 22 | Despite the decline in its popularity , homoeopathy has not been standing still for the entire twentieth century . |
| 23 | The law has not been standing still since Jorden v. Money . |
| 24 | ‘ My own department has not been standing still . |
| 25 | ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’ |
| 26 | If you use the art lesson to check school meal monies , or mark your books , and leave the children to get on , you will not be teaching this subject well ; and the children will suffer and so will their work . |
| 27 | As many of you will have noticed from your Q.T. day programme Beryl will not be teaching this year ; for some time she has taken a great interest in the Back Pain Association and has now become involved particularly at weekends in special classes for back-pain sufferers . |
| 28 | They would not be expecting that . |
| 29 | A spokesman for James Bourlet said that the police would not be undertaking any further investigations . |
| 30 | But he maintained the government would not be providing extra money for SSDs to help establish a provision system for these young people , who are technically still children . |