Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the shrinking affects everything-not just tape measures ? ’ |
| 2 | Some believe that we should be looking at all ages to fulfilling activity which is not wholly employment based , but make more constructive use of leisure . |
| 3 | Female danger/power also rested on the fact that women occupied structurally marginal positions ( i.e. neither fully inside nor outside the system , not wholly nature nor culture ) and on the fact that society placed them in interstructural roles ( as wives and daughters ) with respect to alliance-making and linking disparate power groups . |
| 4 | It was not properly inflation proofed , but anyone who paid national insurance contributions , even at the reduced rate , during that period will have a right to some graduated pension , however small , or to an equivalent amount from an employer 's scheme . |
| 5 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 6 | ‘ You seem to notice everything , Janet , ’ she said , in a not unkindly way . |
| 7 | as if he did not know all this for himself , and was not endlessly wrestling , valiantly and incredulously , with the problem of his own chronic poverty ! |
| 8 | Thinking regarded as internal manipulation of events and ideas does not necessarily depend on language , but if it is not entirely ego orientated , that is not concentrated on the relationship of the person to the scheme of things , then it usually invokes iconic representation . |
| 9 | Even though , therefore , in 691 Aethelred confirmed a grant of land by Swaefheard to Abbess Aebbe in 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) , and confirmed also the successive donations to Hoo ( CS 89 : S 233 ) , it may be that he was not entirely master of the situation . |
| 10 | According to an early draft , the new Programme would give the CPSU the task of carrying out ‘ historically progressive aims ’ ( not necessarily communism ) , and socialism itself was defined as a society of ‘ economic effectiveness , social justice , political democracy and human solidarity ’ ( but not necessarily of public ownership ) . |
| 11 | In the Court of Appeal Lord Denning had attempted to qualify Bolam by saying that an error of clinical judgment was not necessarily negligence . |
| 12 | Modular catering ( though not necessarily Cuisine 2000 ) is expanding on to the Liverpool Street-Norwich run ( using former West Coast vehicles ) , the East Coast main line ( with Mk4 stock ) , and the Western Region , when the ex-ECML cars can be cascaded in 1991 . |
| 13 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 14 | Although the intestinal hypersensitivity reaction is highly specific to the priming antigen , the resulting enhancement of permeability is not necessarily antigen specific . |
| 15 | Such notes are usually signed by the buyer 's warehouse staff , who are not necessarily part of the buyer 's purchasing department , and may have no idea of what the requirement under the contract is in relation to the goods . |
| 16 | That is not necessarily part of the press release but it does give the editor some important information . |
| 17 | Linguists today would consider this question a silly and misguided one ; while according to John Lyons , author of a wide-ranging introductory reference text , gender often reflects some kind of semantic criterion , he insists that the crucial factor is ‘ not necessarily sex ’ . |
| 18 | Country lovers are not necessarily country dwellers . |
| 19 | The above provisions constitute what the law will presume to be the intention of partners in the management of their affairs in the absence of evidence ( not necessarily documentary ) that they have agreed otherwise . |
| 20 | The locally stable strategy in any particular part of the trench lines was not necessarily Tit for Tat itself . |
| 21 | Prospective employers are looking for suitably qualified people , normally graduates — not necessarily law graduates — who show the kind of skills needed to make a successful contribution as a solicitor to the work of a local authority : the ability to analyse a problem and to communicate effectively , flexibility , and the ability to get on well with other members of a team . |
| 22 | Note : Asymmetry is not necessarily chaos or limbo . |
| 23 | Opinion surveys suffer from various drawbacks , the most important of which is that they reflect opinion and not necessarily behaviour . |
| 24 | At this point the social worker introduced the notion of emotional reasoning , which suggests that ‘ feelings of guilt are not necessarily evidence of guilt ’ . |
| 25 | But when such rifts occur , they are not necessarily evidence of lack of love ; they are more often due to the temporary emotional instability of the mourners , and usually heal swiftly , family unity being restored as the grief is worked through . |
| 26 | The new advice shapes up as follows : 70 per cent of our total calorie intake should be complex carbohydrates which include fruit and vegetables , pulses and grains ; 10–15 per cent as protein — not necessarily meat ; 15–30 per cent as fat , with a maximum of 10 per cent as saturated ( animal ) fat ( saturated fat can be cut out altogether if desired ) ; and 10 per cent maximum as added sugar , although this is not essential for healthy eating . |
| 27 | Note that there is not necessarily presupposition that activities should be funded in the order they appear in the list nor that the same ranking holds for every location . |
| 28 | This implies that mispricings ( although not necessarily arbitrage opportunities ) tended to persist for over 20 minutes . |
| 29 | They regularly find subjects to take part in a meal , not necessarily dinner and not necessarily at home . |
| 30 | They are different , but they 're not necessarily right or wrong . |