Example sentences of "is not [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to an industrial lobby , the Union of Producers and Consumers , the new currency is not reducing inflation and is not proving to be convertible . |
| 2 | Advantage of powering the receiver all the time the vehicle is moving is that , even though the driver is not listening to the receiver , it is continuously being updated by RDS data , in the same way as if the driver were listening to the CD player . |
| 3 | ‘ One day ’ ; ‘ eventually ’ ; Salman Rushdie is not expecting to be released from his invisible chains tomorrow . |
| 4 | If B replies no he is inviting A to tell him , while a response of no could be taken to mean that he does not know and is not expecting to be told . |
| 5 | We need a government which is not afraid of playing its part , a government that is not clinging to some of the apparent certainties of the Cold War but one that is willing to step off the sidelines and help ensure that through co-operation between East and West we can move from the two old Europes to the one new Europe with stability . |
| 6 | But when Colin Mackenzie , regional director of Fairclough Civil Engineering , a main contractor on the project , talks about a ‘ hard-nosed bunch ’ he is not referring to his men . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , by ‘ obey ’ Paul is not referring to servile obedience to an authoritarian master , but an injunction to workers to carry out the job an employer has for them to accomplish . |
| 8 | ( In speaking of what a thing is like in this sense , one is not referring to its relation of resemblance to other things , only of that in it which could be the basis of such resemblance . ) |
| 9 | Eraut ( 1977 ) adopts a process viewpoint when he argues that : ‘ A teacher who is not developing to any noticeable extent is becoming a worse teacher , because development is natural and to avoid it is to deteriorate ’ . |
| 10 | And sure I am , two men there is not living To whom he more adheres . |
| 11 | He is not trying to be humble , he is genuinely perplexed by the chemistry that exists between himself and other people . |
| 12 | I have found it useful , when a child is being a thorough nuisance , making exasperating demands , to say to myself : ‘ He/she is not trying to be a ‘ problem ’ ; he/she is trying to solve a problem . |
| 13 | He is an enigma who is not trying to be one . |
| 14 | In this case what keeps them apart is not belonging to the same sex , rather , it is simply a condition of life that in no human relationship can two persons ‘ fuse ’ into one . |
| 15 | Any comments on any section that is not pertaining to the resolution that was on page nineteen ? |
| 16 | Needless to say , this is not going to be the last word in the debate between the constructivists and the nativists . |
| 17 | They simply share the belief that it is not going to be possible to explain behaviour adequately if mental processes are identified with the contents of conscious awareness . |
| 18 | In other words , when it comes to an attempt to understand how someone is likely to respond to a stimulus , a description of the stimulus in terms of its simple physical dimensions is not going to be of any value . |
| 19 | Most vets work on the assumption that if , after the third session , no improvement is noticed , acupuncture is not going to be effective . |
| 20 | Whatever future peace Lebanon can obtain , it is not going to be under the power-sharing system that existed before the start of the civil war . |
| 21 | Ewan Murray , the Games council 's chairman , said cost was not a factor in selecting the team , but only 15 athletes achieved the stringent qualifying standards set down by the Scottish Amateur Athletic Associaton — and one , Allister Hutton , is not going to Auckland because he wished to run in the 10,000 metres instead of the marathon , for which he had qualified . |
| 22 | ’ Well' , said Macmillan , ‘ he is not going to be my headmaster . ’ |
| 23 | You 've been a good friend but unfortunately this is not going to be enough to help your friend . |
| 24 | Brownie points for guts , if true ; but public confidence is not going to be restored in the integrity of official information unless it is seen to be properly independent of the government machine that is now exerting its improper pressures behind closed doors . |
| 25 | Unionists may not be ready to judge the republic on its merits for years yet , and the hatred bred by three centuries of religious animosity is not going to be bartered away by any group of politicians . |
| 26 | Clearly then the Labour Party 's goal of Irish unity by consent is not going to be achieved overnight . |
| 27 | It may be scholarly to give many references to work done in the 18th century and to plumb the depths of graph theory , but the result is not going to be of very much help to a working chemist . |
| 28 | Does it address the issue that it is the impact of social structures on older people that needs to be challenged , and that any amount of charitable good work is not going to fundamentally alter this situation ? |
| 29 | Now I 've gone lazy but I still have enough gumption to realise the breakthrough is not going to be intellectual but spiritual . |
| 30 | The ability to win over an informant who is undecided whether or not to grant the interview is important , as is the ability to put people at their ease and reassure them that the interview is not going to be some sort of viva voce examination . |