Example sentences of "was not [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Harry he was not expecting to meet a superman like you . |
| 2 | A new Cabinet of " national unity " had been named in advance of Gaviria 's inauguration , although he emphasised that he was not seeking to form a coalition government . |
| 3 | His order was not seeking to determine the rights of those represented by Crossman Block should there be any challenge to them . |
| 4 | At a press conference in Tehran on March 4 Nasrallah said that his organization was not seeking to kidnap Westerners in Lebanon as a response to the assassination of Musawi by Israeli forces . |
| 5 | And Scotland Yard confirmed it was not getting involved . |
| 6 | He was aware that he was not managing to sound exactly like a senior officer making a recent arrival feel at home , but decided not to add any further riders to his invitation . |
| 7 | It may be that Henry II was not plotting to make John his heir . |
| 8 | I was not striving to record the truth , but a truth — my own . |
| 9 | As FRAG chairman Chris Swinson points out , ‘ I ca n't see why the Government would have mentioned it if it was not intending to act . |
| 10 | I thought little about this prospect or indeed , about the opposition , as I was not intending to go the full distance after my exertions in the previous day 's 10K . |
| 11 | Thus in Smith v Hughes ( 1871 ) LR 6 QB 597 , it was held that the seller of oats could not hold the buyer to the contract of sale if the seller was aware that the buyer was intending to accept an offer to sell oats warranted to be old , where , in fact , the seller was not intending to give any such warranty . |
| 12 | Those responsible for initial teacher training , for example , were apparently relieved that the Polytechnic , upon its merger with the Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education in 1975 , was not intending to leave them as a monotechnic island in the interdisciplinary sea of the Polytechnic , particularly when it remained possible ( as confirmed by subsequent experience elsewhere ) that isolation would mean a low ranking in whatever prioritization exercises the Polytechnic might be forced to undertake . |
| 13 | He said that it was felt that the change would give both parties more freedom of choice , and stressed that he would continue to use Tory on a freelance basis and was not intending to appoint another stable jockey before the end of the season . |
| 14 | The Builder had an editorial on 19th February which contained extracts from a letter from Scott reasserting that his design was better lit , as convenient and no more expensive than a classical design , and it commented that Scott 's opponents did not understand that he was not intending to reproduce old forms rigidly and he was only willing to introduce ‘ the refinements and inventions of our own day ’ . |
| 15 | Charles Wilson , editor of The Times , asked whether it was not damaging to devote so much space to the attack , said : ‘ This conference should be discussing why this bankrupt policy is n't working . |
| 16 | She was not bothering to drink . |
| 17 | Walking the floor to prove to yourself it was not rising to crush your bed as the walls slowly gathered in towards you and the ceiling lowered itself steadily downwards until it was an inch above your face . |
| 18 | She has often been criticised for not doing , or doing imperfectly , things she was not trying to do . |
| 19 | The difficulty with a post like that of judge of the regality court of Glasgow was that while it could help or harm a political interest , depending upon the use made of the powers of the court by the appointee , the office itself was not a profitable one if the judge was not trying to bend the laws to his own advantage . |
| 20 | ( For Bottome herself says : ‘ No one could write better than Ezra when he was not trying to score off T.S . |
| 21 | Ronald Fraser was not trying to determine , like certain historians of former times , what his past ‘ really was ’ . |
| 22 | But at least I was not trying to stand completely outside this life with my little notebook . |
| 23 | Mr Pullar said the league was not trying to buck the council but the council did not appear to feel it could offer the league the facilities at reasonable prices . |
| 24 | Simon was not trying to buy the Holy Spirit but rather the ability to impart the Holy Spirit . |
| 25 | He was not trying to organise anything ! |
| 26 | At the start of the story Anna is portrayed as being ‘ perfectly unaffected and was not trying to conceal anything , but that she lived in another , higher world full of complex poetic interests beyond reach ’ . |
| 27 | He was not trying to get her tight . |
| 28 | The announcement followed a visit to Libya by the agency 's Director-General , Hans Blix , who was given assurances by Kadhafi that Libya was not trying to produce an atomic bomb . |
| 29 | Whatever he was trying to do , he was not trying to insult him . |
| 30 | But soon the colleges came to grips with Little Shop of Horrors as a topic for campus debate the world over , and they decided that Corman was telling them that he was not trying to hide the fact that it was a cheaply made film — this was the one he shot in two days — but he was n't trying to pass it off as serious movie-making either . |