Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | there 's women darts , there 's mens darts , and they might not all come in till about nine o'clock , but they are only like , two hours |
| 2 | The general intention in each case was not to screen the train completely , but to ensure that trains did not suddenly come into view without warning , for that would have given no time for a rider or driver to control the horse , which might otherwise bold or unseat its rider . |
| 3 | Poor listeners often make irrelevant comments ; the most influential contributions do not necessarily come from those vessels making the most noise . |
| 4 | Their view is that the co-ordinator will not necessarily come from the R & D department , which will reduce its influence . |
| 5 | As such , they may be more appropriate for urban areas , where most of the housing in any area tends to be of a similar age and type and the blanket effect of the area-based policy will at least have some logical basis ( although even in inner cities problems do not necessarily come in a spatially concentrated form — see Smith 1979a ) . |
| 6 | For you , it is indisputable that the rights of all its inhabitants are equal , and that human beings do not necessarily come first . |
| 7 | In Island Export and Finance Ltd v Umunna [ 1986 ] BCLC 460 it was held that a director 's fiduciary duty did not necessarily come to an end when he ceased to be a director . |
| 8 | For instance , the milk , which is a fairly essential ingredient , has not necessarily come from Wensleydale . |
| 9 | Not much came of it . |
| 10 | So strong can these commitments become that teachers not only come to feel diffident about teaching and reluctant to teach subjects very different from their own , like religious education or personal and social education , which would be likely to form but a minor part of their timetable commitment , but some teachers may even feel reluctant to teach subjects that would appear to have a fairly close cognate intellectual relationship to their own — as when physicists are asked to teach chemistry or integrated sciences , for instance . |
| 11 | They are an important part of our twin-track approach so that we not only come down hard on offenders who commit the crime of taking vehicles , but we do all we can to prevent youngsters from offending . |
| 12 | However , even if the L.G.U. was left wondering if it should n't have kept the public better informed , it must have been greatly heartened by the number of spectators who not only came to this out-of-the-way championship but made it abundantly clear that they were greatly taken with the high standard of play . |
| 13 | He not only comes from Brixton but , for many years , inhabited the landscapes and shared the hopes and anxieties of the indigent respectables living in a largely Labourist collective ethos . |
| 14 | C.D.C. means that initiative not only comes from the top but from the bottom up . |
| 15 | But remember , sugar does not only come out of a packet . |
| 16 | Insights into child development do not only come from books . |
| 17 | Visual information does not only come in the form of specific letter identification . |
| 18 | To do this , it has to not only come up with single products but be able to place them in product systems and even combine them in innovative ways . |
| 19 | As I have read his writings , often in photocopies lent to me by friends , or in the book on his work published in 1982 , in India , I have not only come to appreciate his films in a more informed way , but I have also realized that his outlook on film-making is one which has begun to affect my own thinking . |
| 20 | However , even at the same time as this controversy continues the discipline has not only come to recognize the influence of the self , but has urged that we use it as a scientific construction ( Okely 1975a ) . |
| 21 | The initiative for bodies of this sort has not only come from the centre . |
| 22 | I had not only come to faith . |
| 23 | The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ . |
| 24 | While at the same time as not merely coming out of the closet about his sexuality — in fact , by hardly admitting there was a closet there at all — he was also locking so many of his innermost thoughts away . |
| 25 | Brenda had not long come to live in the country . |
| 26 | The lorry had not long come out of the tunnel when Tony suddenly clicked his tongue and applied the footbrake . |
| 27 | In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine . |
| 28 | His first realization that he was not alone came when he booked a return Business-Class ticket at the Sabena counter . |
| 29 | If it has not already come , First Interstate should be expecting a telephone call soon . |
| 30 | It was unlikely that anything he might discover had not already come to light . |