Example sentences of "not [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I am not looking for money , just a deep involvement and I must be worth a telephone call . |
| 32 | God is not looking for ability , but availability . |
| 33 | Sixteen students were not looking for work at the time of the survey . |
| 34 | ‘ I am not looking for commitment ! ’ |
| 35 | I 'm not looking for attention . |
| 36 | But the co-ordinator of the elderly peoples ' service development programme Paul Cousins says he is not looking for uniformity . |
| 37 | ‘ We are not looking for domination , but equality , ’ he said , again demanding that Sinn Fein must be included in political talks . |
| 38 | Three of the four students not looking for employment and without plans to continue their studies would be travelling overseas for a time before commencing job search . |
| 39 | Street declared in The Builder that Parker was expressing his personal views and not writing on behalf of the Oxford Architectural Society , and if Parker 's ‘ excessively antiquarian view of our own present duties were to be put forward as the real and right ground for us to work upon , I , for one , should have very little hope of the ultimate success of our course ’ . |
| 40 | She was not writing of slum life so as to shock the reader , or even indulging in nostalgia so as to entertain . |
| 41 | His simple , understandable but rich symbolism and clever technique show someone who has put his whole heart into the character of his poem , if indeed he is not writing from experience . |
| 42 | Although not approving of church-going , Herr Nordern offered to drive Omi and Erika to the church but , the day being bright and sunny , the offer was declined . |
| 43 | Alcohol taken in moderation is enjoyable and not damaging to health but the key word is MODERATION . |
| 44 | Not believing in reincarnation or the after-life , it 's my view that our lives are not dress rehearsals . |
| 45 | My mother , not believing in idleness and thinking of the long months that lay ahead of me , decided I should learn embroidery . |
| 46 | SIB Core Rule 36(3) provides that for the purposes of the Core Rules a firm is not acting with knowledge if none of the relevant individuals within the firm is acting with knowledge . |
| 47 | The Company was not acting on behalf of the government when it entered into the concession agreement . |
| 48 | The Portuguese Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs , José Durao Barroso , chaired the meetings , but stressed that he was not acting as mediator , a role still officially held by Zaïre 's President Mobutu . |
| 49 | ‘ It is convenient to consider first whether the judge was correct in holding that the husband , whatever else he may have done , was not acting as agent for the bank for the purposes of procuring the signature of the wife to the charge . |
| 50 | It covers all persons ( whether or not acting in concert ) who directly or indirectly own or deal in the shares of an offeror company or the target company in an offer and who have ( in addition to their nominal interests as shareholders ) an interest or potential interest , whether commercial , financial or personal , in the outcome of the offer . |
| 51 | Rule 37.1 does not impose a mandatory bid obligation on a shareholder not acting in concert with the directors unless he purchased shares at a time when he had reason to believe that a redemption or purchase would take place . |
| 52 | As regards these latter matters , it will be assumed for the remainder of the chapter , unless the contrary is stated , that a company has capacity to grant the security and that the directors were not acting in breach of their duty to the company or exceeding their authority . |
| 53 | Among its findings on freshwater quality the report mentioned : ( i ) high levels of phosphates in rivers , lakes and reservoirs in most of central and southern England , which cause excessive growth of surface plants such as algae which in turn damage wildlife ; ( ii ) acidification of rivers and lakes in some parts of Scotland , northern England and Wales to such levels that they are almost devoid of fish ; ( iii ) one in eight sewage plants still not operating within discharge limits ; ( iv ) periodic high levels of pesticide pollution in drinking water ; and ( v ) a high proportion of freshwater sites used for recreational purposes failing to meet the standards set by the European Community directive on bathing water . |
| 54 | The mathematics — and indeed the physics — of the situation are extremely complicated , but we can note that the tippe-top is not operating in isolation . |
| 55 | A queue is a sequence of individuals , arranged according to time of arrival , and not according to size or strength , such that the first in the queue has prior access to some resource . |
| 56 | For the wealthy there were gold bracelets weighed by the market gold merchants and purchased according to weight and the going price of gold , not according to design . |
| 57 | Not pausing for breath , and following ports to Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA RISC and Sun Microsystems Inc 's Sparc — see page 3 — Banyan Systems Inc will this week reveal plans to put its Vines network operating system up on the IBM Corp RS/6000 . |
| 58 | It gives me great satisfaction but we are not shouting about being second for what might be a few hours . ’ |
| 59 | Tom , likewise , was not searching for love . |
| 60 | We cut grass with a ride-on mower and dead head if not growing for seed . |