Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [adv] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shoemaker 's daughter was pretty enough but poorly dressed with a Welsh shawl over her shoulders and not even a hat to cover her hair . |
| 2 | Running is a part of my life and not just a way to prepare for races . ’ |
| 3 | Labelling a particular SBU as a ‘ dog ’ should be seen as a challenge to the people involved with it to search out and propose new SBUs and not just a signal to give up and die . |
| 4 | By mid-1941 , therefore , it was the prevailing view within the Board of Education that the milk-in-schools scheme was ‘ an essential part of our war food policy and not mainly a scheme to increase milk drinking and use up a surplus of liquid milk ’ ; by that time , for example , the Ministry of Food was assuming , for rationing calculation purposes , that each child was receiving five-sixths of a pint of milk per day . |
| 5 | The language used in the authorities relating to the trustee is none too clear , but it indicates that the trustee has possession of chattels in the hands of the beneficiary , and not merely the right to possess them . |
| 6 | Aldercine Hodson recently took up the challenge of organising a ‘ Fun Sports Afternoon ’ for the disabled that would cater especially for those handicapped people who have athletic inclinations but not necessarily the strength to cope with competition at County , Regional or National level . |
| 7 | The real difficulty about this type of individual help is that it may provide immediate relief but not necessarily the understanding to cope with the same or similar situations in the future . |