Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that , I do not simply mean the gods , but human culture itself as well . |
| 2 | I do not yet have the exact date but I expect it will be some time during March or April — more likely April . |
| 3 | No , I do not wish to give any sort of name to it because I do not yet grasp the true meaning of this ‘ presence' : all that I sense , however vaguely , is that it or he or He is not hostile . |
| 4 | I do not however think the engine when running has any wear problems to cause low oil pressure and have some vague thought that when a remote oil filter is fitted high up you have to remove the pressure release valve or do something or other . |
| 5 | I do not however think the Court of Appeal can have intended to exclude all information in Goulding J's second category from possible protection by a restrictive covenant . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not actually need the evidence of two people in one bedroom and the sight of crumpled covers to point me in the right direction . |
| 7 | I do not fully appreciate the experience of an American late-night movie without a bourbon , or a book at bedtime without a single malt . |
| 8 | I do not fully share the concern of those sociologists ( and others ) , who wish to address the question of what differentiates professions from non-professional occupations . |
| 9 | I do not entirely believe the member who said that their traditions were more important than the money . |
| 10 | I do not really accept the underlying assumption about a ‘ culture ’ of shared norms . |
| 11 | Most difficult of all , admits , is setting foreign language puzzles : ‘ I translated some puzzles into Russian once , which was not easy since I did not even know the Cyrillic alphabet ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You have both helped Ana and I did not even have the right to ask . |
| 13 | Thinking of him again made me so wretched that on my way back into the department I did not even notice the owner of the hand that held open the door for me , until I chanced to notice Dr Jones watching from outside his office . |
| 14 | I did not really have the heart for such things , but I knew I should be interrogated on my return , and I was aware that she was merely trying hard to push me into normal post-war life . |
| 15 | The journey was long but pleasant , although I did not really enjoy the last leg from Kuala Lumpur to Perth . |
| 16 | I did not entirely follow the hon. Gentleman 's question . |
| 17 | I did not fully appreciate the extent of their regard until her declining years when the numerous and persistent inquiries about her health , the genuine regrets , the reminiscences of old times , revealed the strength of feeling and loyalty . |
| 18 | In so far as management budgeting was seen to be a failure , it was because it was perceived to be too much of a finance-led exercise which did not adequately tackle the organisational and behavioural issues . |
| 19 | In theory , the tax applied equally to Japanese and imported whisky spirit , but in practice the position was radically different ; imported scotch attracted the full tax , but the local spirit ( 'whisky' ) was in fact only 10% whisky spirit ( which did not unduly worry the consumers , since they drank it as mizuwari , highly diluted with water ) . |
| 20 | The Euratom countries , which did not then include the United Kingdom , began a cooperative programme of research . |
| 21 | A third point of criticism concerns Chomsky 's declaration that the child was exposed to ‘ degenerate ’ examples of language which did not accurately reflect the underlying rules of grammar . |
| 22 | This was a somewhat idealised view which did not truly reflect the political reality in England at the time . |
| 23 | Now , the emphasis is on pay agreements that will meet the specific needs of the civil service and of the executive agencies throughout the country , rather than on maintaining an unnecessarily rigid or uniform structure — a structure which did not necessarily produce the best results in the past . |
| 24 | The political defeats of the 1930s ‘ shipwreck ’ the avant-garde , and furthermore , through a kind of extension ( since one assumes Anderson 's tripartite conjuncture fuelled even those Modernist forms which did not quite take the transformatory step into engaged avant-gardism ) come to determine ‘ the more general exhaustion of Modernism ’ . |
| 25 | A further task which could become the focus of co-operative endeavour in mathematics departments and curriculum development groups is to engage in the preparation of learning materials which do not simply support the status quo , but which enable our students to question and challenge it . |
| 26 | The Revenue has become aware that some schemes have been registered which do not adequately observe the strict requirements of the legislation . |
| 27 | Writing or speaking tasks which do not clearly specify the receiver make even native-speaking students tongue-tied , and not surprisingly , for we simply do not talk or write into vacuums . |
| 28 | Improved supervision and training in the supervision of investigations — whilst recognising the de-motivating ‘ pressure for results ’ [ which do not necessarily benefit the public ] under which the police often work , the Law Society is concerned that unless these pressures are removed and replaced by monitoring which measures the quality of their work instead , some police officers will continue to allow their preconceptions about an individual 's guilt to affect the way in which they investigate crimes , limiting their enquiries to those which bolster the prosecution case . |
| 29 | Some qualifications apply which do not necessarily deprive the image of historical authenticity . |
| 30 | ‘ Building operations ’ , for instance , include rebuilding operations , structural alterations of , or additions to , buildings and , somewhat curiously , ‘ other operations normally undertaken by a person carrying on business as a builder ’ ; but maintenance and improvement works which affect only the interior of the building or which do not materially affect the external appearance of the building are specifically excluded . |