The waiter, on his return, not being able to find it, seemed surprised.
The lean young lady opined that, not being used to high living, it might disagree with him.
Thou didst know enough of me to know that thou didst run no risk of not being paid.
Not being able to pay the fine, he was cast into prison; but then the men of Glamorgan arose to a man, swearing that their head bard should not remain in prison.
I asked him how it was he knew how to handle a scythe, not being bred up a farming man; he smiled, and said that, somehow or other, he had learnt to do so.
Mr Kenwigs, not being skilful in such matters, only fanned the flame in attempting to extinguish it.
Not being a man of fortune," he said, "was a crime which he was unable to get over, and therefore none of the great cared about him.
Both, as this double precaution indicated, had an interest innot being recognized.
Bonacieux wept all day, like a true mercer, not being at all a military man, as he himself informed us.
The commission might well be called delicate; and the king had reached, in his jealousy of Buckingham, the point of not being jealous of anyone else.
He did not dare to write for fear of not being able--to such experienced eyes as those of Milady--to disguise his writing sufficiently.
Not being hot at his preaching there was less enthusiasm about him now, and the presence of the grinder seemed to embarrass him.
But throughout the country there were, as there will doubtless always be, a considerable number of men who, not being able to succeed themselves, distrusted and disliked the successful.
In classed books, on the other hand, the book is the thing to know, for if a child wants to know something about electricity or carpentry, he is not being influenced so much in character as in education.
As soon, however, as the marquise had disappeared, her envious enemy, not being able to resist the desire to satisfy herself that her suspicions were well founded, advanced stealthily towards it like a panther and seized the envelope.
You are better than I, or rather, better than anybody, and I only acknowledge the possession of one quality, and that is, of not being jealous.
The latter, not being a vulgar spirit, had more to risk than the others, because he had more conscience.
He never attempted to sell it--not being in need of money, and not (to give him his due again) making money an object.
Not being able to cope alone with the heathen, Father Diaz Tano went to Guayra, and induced Montoya (still the superior of the reductions in that province) to give his aid.
Not being sure of all his troops, and the Bishop having the populace upon his side, he sent to the Jesuit missions for six hundred Indians.
Her satisfaction, too, in not being at the Lower Rooms was spoken more than once.
A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.
Accessary before the fact (Law), one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission.
Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being present at the commission of the offense.
Law) One who, not being present, contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
Some of the victims fainted, not being in the best condition at the outset for undergoing so severe a trial; but all were treated alike, buckets of salt water being flung over them.
Reassured that they had lost nothing by not being nearer, it being a "lone" whale, off they went again.
The tide had risen, and that half-moon of light had disappeared, so that we were now prisoners for many hours, it not being at all probable that we should be able to find our way out during the night ebb.
The shrewdness which all women more or less possess, not being employed in the service of her heart, had drifted into that of speculation.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not being" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
