Example sentences of "they not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , pumps and seals and er different things , all , all kind of pumps , water erm water , gas , erm petrol pumps every everything whatever you know , and they 're making their own , it 's not , they not just , he buys the rough er the , what |
| 2 | But might they not also serve to overcome properties of the individual members of a society which are themselves the result of other social practices ? |
| 3 | If economic agents are assumed to be rational optimizers when forming expectations , why should they not also be rational optimizers when drawing up contracts ? |
| 4 | Do they not also need turning points , though . |
| 5 | The figures would be a shock to MPs and Department of Health officials — who had acknowledged that they not longer keep central statistics on closures — he added . |
| 6 | Why did they not rather try to recruit them into the STA in some way , as a separate women 's branch for instance , as in the past ? |
| 7 | If they went on seeing each other , would they not eventually produce the same complicatedly beautiful pattern of commitment as her friends had ? |
| 8 | They not well ? |
| 9 | They not infrequently turn for some answers to the religion that they may have been introduced to in the past but have long since rejected . |
| 10 | At p524 The Lord President stated : In neither of the English cases referred to was it doubted that if trustees carry on a trade or business — as they not infrequently have to do , at least for a time — they are assessable under Case I of Schedule D ; although again the balance of their profits and gains is theirs only in a representative capacity … |
| 11 | Are they not paradoxically reproducing the laws which exclude and oppress them , even as they seem to be escaping and subverting those laws ? |
| 12 | So do I are they not very warm ? |
| 13 | Both in the Forum Report ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : xii ) and in their written submission ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1984 ) , they not only repeated their oft-stated attitude to catholic schools , defending them from any contribution to sectarianism in Ireland , but opposed the introduction of divorce and any weakening of legislation which they felt protected the family . |
| 14 | When his characters make love — or perform Mr. Lawrence 's equivalent for love-making — and they do nothing else — they not only lose all the amenities , refinements and graces which many centuries have built up in order to make love-making tolerable ; they seem to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution , passing backward beyond ape and fish to some hideous coitus of protoplasm . |
| 15 | So , on their recent visit to the UK , they not only performed club dates but also lectured at London 's Africa Centre , holding a cultural convention ‘ to promote communications between London and New York ’ , and to introduce Blackwatch — X-Clan minus the music . |
| 16 | They not only brighten up a faded border , but provide essential nectar and pollen for beneficial insects going into hibernation . |
| 17 | The new owner may find to their dismay , that they not only have a horse who is a perpetual puller , but one who also refuses to learn to travel more slowly . |
| 18 | They not only have to be able to get there but they have to be able to get their words and pictures out . |
| 19 | When someone asks a government for bloodwealth , they not only threaten bloodshed if it is not forthcoming , but do so in an idiom which denies the government 's claim to superiority , puts it on an equal footing , treats it as just another tribe . |
| 20 | They not only deserve opportunity ( especially those who benefited little from the post-war expansion of the welfare state ) , but can offer much as educated citizens and workers . |
| 21 | This mental health orientation leads to a more pessimistic outlook on patient needs — they not only require treatment , but it is assumed that it must be compulsory — and there is a tendency towards a ‘ presumption of risk ’ — that the presence of mental illness makes the situation inherently risky . |
| 22 | They not only surf and swim in it , but paint it , photograph it , worship , contemplate and consult it . |
| 23 | They not only have no obligation to take charge of the moral or spiritual education of their pupils , they have no obligation to help them to develop in aspects of life , such as drama or music , that are not strictly part of their own subject of expertise . |
| 24 | Of course they not only reflect ageism in society but help to reinforce it and make it acceptable . |
| 25 | They not only allowed the third party an action which would have been impossible at civil law , but also permitted specific performance . |
| 26 | they not only lost the services of Ethel but because Mangon stopped booking the Girls , all 160 jobs were lost . |
| 27 | If you freeze your Brazils ( 24 hours is ample ) they not only crack more easily but separate delightfully . |
| 28 | They not only provide the matter for intellectual activity — facts , knowledge , range of probabilities , and so on — but they also have the quality of ‘ encouraging reflective thought and awareness of the processes of the mind ’ ( Donaldson , 1975 , p. 106 ) . |
| 29 | This paraphrase of Paul 's words in Ephesians 4:26 guaranteed they not only resolved conflicts but also gave and received forgiveness . |
| 30 | They not only make an income from their paintings , and the cards from them , but their work gives them the challenge to succeed despite handicap . |