Example sentences of "not [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adoral shields are slightly wing-like , not or just separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 2 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |
| 3 | The defendants were on risk that as a result of the bargain they had struck the plaintiff would not or indeed possibly could not comply with his existing obligations without further finance . |
| 4 | The adoral shields are short , rectangular in shape , they do not or only just separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 5 | O. valenciennesi rufescens differs from O. valenciennesi Lyman ( Challenger Stn 192 off Kei Is 236 m ) in the following respects : the disk spinelets are not as rugose as those of O. valenciennesi and the adoral shields do not or only just separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate , those of O. valenciennesi are more wing-like and extend to the genital slits . |
| 6 | It is not that today 's graduates have especially high expectations , they just want work . |
| 7 | ‘ Not that again … you never give up , do you ? |
| 8 | ‘ Not that again , ’ he groaned , ‘ but do you really prefer the rose to diamonds ? |
| 9 | ‘ Not that again , pray ! |
| 10 | He 's against rummaging in one 's past — not that even he would use that term for A la Récherche though he really detests the style . |
| 11 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 12 | I reckon that our family covers just about every area , I mean , my silly wee sister gets all the little ones ' news — not that very much happens there . |
| 13 | This book is the true story of a decade in which physical and mental torture became so common that the wonder is not that so many were killed or driven to kill themselves but that so many more survived . |
| 14 | Not cos like in physics we 're doing these not or nor gates like . |
| 15 | Prewar production levels were not regained until the early 1950s , and not until even later were 1930s agricultural productivity levels exceeded . |
| 16 | It is not until later ( perhaps mid 30s ) that their domestic commitments change so that they can start to return to work . |
| 17 | If it was not until later that the accused discovered that he had been overpaid it is suggested that the money no longer belongs to another because ownership of it passes on payment . |
| 18 | In the event , however , it was not for several years — not until well after the composer 's death — that the missing portion of the overture was at last copied into the score . |
| 19 | One wonders whether the explanation of this may be that the Parliamentary draftsmen immediately after the Union were English lawyers , and that it was not until well on in the nineteenth century that Scottish draftsmen came to draft bills applicable to Scotland and the spelling ‘ Burgh ’ was adopted in Statutes applying to Scotland . |
| 20 | It was not until well after the war began that Iraq started to diversify in the direction of France , with the Mirage and Super Etendard , both capable of delivering the much-discussed Exocet air/surface ( AS ) missile . |
| 21 | It was not until well into the war that serious attacks were first launched on the principal Iranian terminal at Kharg Island , a nut that proved particularly difficult to crack . |
| 22 | It was not until just before the turn of the present century that it was revived by those who sought to promote the occult and a New Age mentality . |
| 23 | While Television began in Britain during the 1930s , it was not until just after the Second World War that a regular broadcasting service commenced . |
| 24 | I can see this now , yet it was not until nearly ten years after I became a Christian that I finally faced the issue that whatever other influences had been involved in my conversion ( such as my family and friends and the work of God in my life ) there was a sense in which the decision to believe was entirely my responsibility . |
| 25 | Though Between and Thru exhibit striking parallels with the emergent thinking in the late 1960s and early 1970s about the relation of women to language , it was not until nearly fifteen years later that she began to make use of gender-specific arguments in her critical writings . |
| 26 | Not until long after his death was this process commercialised . |
| 27 | There are particular challenges in running a prison which has only those serving life sentences in it , yet it was not until earlier this year that any escape from that prison took place . |
| 28 | More slowly , ministers and departments of State charged more or less specifically with the conduct of foreign affairs emerged in most West European countries , though it was not until late in the eighteenth century that this process began to reach completion . |
| 29 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 30 | Not until around 1540 did undertakings begin to proliferate , and even then the work was never a whole-time occupation , production being organised in ‘ campaigns ’ lasting from two to six months , mainly in winter when the rains swelled the streamlets and filled the ponds which powered the furnace bellows and the tilt-hammers of the forges . |