Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rare , indeed , to find today the original zealous approach though it is not altogether lacking . |
| 2 | For example , faced with the ratio of a two to one majority decision in the Court of Appeal as against dicta of three judges in the House of Lords agreeing with the dissent in the Court of Appeal and casting doubt on the correctness of the majority opinion , but not expressly overruling it , it is clear that the Court of Appeal must follow the dicta of the House of Lords rather than the ratio of their earlier decision , so paradoxically preferring the persuasive to the binding authority . |
| 3 | Both the defendants and the Bank of England , while not expressly acknowledging the link , invite the court to proceed for present purposes on the assumption that without the defendants ' breach the Bank of England would not have issued the section 39 notice in its present form . |
| 4 | Are they not paradoxically reproducing the laws which exclude and oppress them , even as they seem to be escaping and subverting those laws ? |
| 5 | I am not wholly retracting that , but as Martin Davies said in the speech to which I refer , when questioned about the relationship between NCC and SEAC and our traditional disease . |
| 6 | Subdued by the mockery , she joined him at the door he was now unlocking , still not wholly trusting him , and the gleam in his eyes told her he knew it . |
| 7 | The implications of the National Curriculum on our determination to enliven the learning process are not wholly discouraging . |
| 8 | He must have been with them all the time from Corry , to Raasay , to Kingsburgh , to Dunvegan : ‘ a fellow quite like a savage ’ — and they were followed , ‘ as colts follow passengers upon a road ’ , by local lads , barefoot , ragged , lazy and not wholly unmenacing . |
| 9 | He could not bear to think of losing her , or of not wholly possessing her . |
| 10 | Valerie Jones of London ( Letters NI 198 ) criticizes you for not wholeheartedly supporting Sendero Luminoso ( A shining path of blood ) in Peru , while I was thinking that you were not sufficiently unequivocal in your condemnation of Sendero Luminoso . |
| 11 | This is why reviewing is not properly speaking criticism , though it calls for critical qualities , and an extended review-article , looking at a whole oeuvre , may well be . |
| 12 | But , even if not properly speaking a science , it is still worthy of systematic pursuit . |
| 13 | He believed it to work in scenes rather than in its entirety , and in a lecture some years later he criticized himself for not properly developing the action and for failing to adapt the classical theme to a contemporary situation . |
| 14 | Without foreign or extraneous admixture ; free from anything not properly pertaining to it ; homogeneous , unalloyed . |
| 15 | But he wants the military to test the anti- nerve gas pills to make sure that they 're not addictive , so that they 're not inadvertantly giving soldiers under stress a potent drug which could be open to abuse . |
| 16 | When we take a belief , desire , or intention to have caused an action , as we commonly do , we are not thereby explaining the action by referring to other actions , let alone mere movements . |
| 17 | ( 5 ) In respect of any orders for payment of standard basis costs by the plaintiffs to the defendants that have already been made it is , as we understand it , common ground that the court was not thereby purporting to deprive the defendants of any costs which they were contractually entitled to add to their security . |
| 18 | You have a good voice , fascinating , when you 're not furiously fighting the inevitable . ’ |
| 19 | He is not politely evading it — he is actually thinking about it . |
| 20 | Thames Valley Police were criticised for not effectively alerting ports and airports to watch for him . |
| 21 | Now how is a pensions regulator going to look at those thirty transactions , therefore are you not effectively saying that the pensions regulator may work in areas where pensions regulation actually works now . |
| 22 | They talked about a project together with director Hal Ashby , who was trying to raise finance for a film based upon a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( which Nicholson later made with Jessica Lange ) , but MGM pulled out because they did not think Michelle Phillips was a big enough name , not apparently appreciating that she was once a starring member of a world-famous singing quartet . |
| 23 | I recently read Stacey 's study of the council , published with its blessing and undertaken by the same means of ‘ participant observation , ’ albeit not apparently requiring the same degree of deception . |
| 24 | She had divorced her first husband because he showed signs of becoming like her father , and now , at her second attempt , the man she had married , while not apparently planning to emulate her parent , yet found him admirable . |
| 25 | Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it . |
| 26 | Whether or not all meaning can be made explicit in the text is perhaps less critical than the belief that it can and that making it so is a valid scientific enterprise . |
| 27 | It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go . |
| 28 | S so the position as of say the summer nineteen forty seven when , when you 're , you , this law was being formulated the reports coming back are that although there is the opportunity for the poor to do better , as a , as a matter of course they 're not all doing better . |
| 29 | I am not idly seeking |
| 30 | Request : In the guise of pop-group ‘ The Howlers ’ ( ‘ We play loud modern rock music not entirely lacking in melodies ’ ) , we contacted the portly football fan to request his consent for a song ( and concept album ) to be titled ‘ Mad Hattersley 's Tea Party ’ . |