Example sentences of "not [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact what the members of the Committee wished to do was to alter the law , not expressly to encourage or legalise such practices , but to remove them , like adultery and other sins , from the realm of the law . |
| 2 | Politicians are not wholly to blame for failing to know the British . |
| 3 | The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame . |
| 4 | Her voice sounded clipped , rather staccato , and it seemed not properly to belong to her any more . |
| 5 | A series of measures to encourage office relocation in order to provide alternative employment opportunities and economic stimulus did something to modify the pattern though not fundamentally to change it . |
| 6 | The committee was chaired by Hopkins , the senior Treasury official most sympathetic to Keynesian ideas , and he used his power to amend , but not fundamentally to alter , the approach of the Section to achieving full employment . |
| 7 | Thus , in his discussion of Modernism relative to Lukács and Brecht : ‘ to highlight the fact that Modernism shares with Romanticism a ‘ subjectified occasionalism , is not thereby to pass a negative aesthetic judgement on the works of art grouped together under the former label . |
| 8 | Its not right to experiment on the saturday . |
| 9 | Ought we not rather to think in terms of partially intersecting views of context ? |
| 10 | er , so I 've a , is n't it , it 's a case of no news is possibly good news again , erm , I 'm trying to get in touch with the National Co-Organiser for Carl and John without er any success erm , I know he was going to the erm , the British Section just erm , he was gon na check on them and what actions were forthcoming but er , I have n't heard about that erm , I dare say there 's some on the way erm , the erm , the other few points were erm Jackie 's talk last month she mentioned that erm she was gon na give sort of the more forms sort of side presentation and stuff at their centre in North London , I 've got ta date for that now , it 's erm the eighteenth of March , which is a Wednesday so eh , I 'll certainly be going , if anybody else is interested that 's er , that 's the date er , it 's , it 's not entirely to do with but it , it has a link in , erm we were mentioning campaigns last month , I believe there 's a fourth coming one on , indigenous peoples , which , er , it 's , it 's all sort of triggered off by erm the er five hundredth anniversary of Columbus discovering the Americas erm , the erm cast and the whole of all the sort of the Region and Action networks and the Americas are , erm gon na have a big link in with that campaign so , erm , I , I 'd really like to see us sort of getting involved with that , yes , and , I mean , I 'll be involved to an extent anyway , cos some of the actions that I 'll getting will be sort of addressing the issue of indigenous people 's but erm , erm , they if , if nobody else is wiling to take it on , I 'll , I 'll , I 'd certainly be prepared to erm , sort of co-ordinate that campaign , erm , having said all that , erm I mentioned to a few people that erm , erm in the process of buying a house , so erm I could be moving in well hopefully as little as two months time so erm , I mean if er is as quite as it has been for the last few months , I probably wo n't have any problems , but erm , sod 's law it 's bound to pick up just as I 'm moving house |
| 11 | The LDDC is not entirely to blame for this . |
| 12 | However , as we shall see , it is necessary to recognise several ‘ lesser ’ semantic roles besides the central one of being a semantic constituent , so that to deny semantic constituency to an element is not necessarily to deny it any semantic role whatsoever : the ‘ negative emotive force ’ can , in fact , be accommodated . |
| 13 | For that is not necessarily to say that the Consumers ' Movement 's treatment of production as incidental to its interests was , on a strategic view of the objectives of Co-operation , right . |
| 14 | Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi may , from his actions , be presumed to have disapproved of Seyh Bedreddin , which is not necessarily to say that he disapproved of Molla Fenari . |
| 15 | Well I mean , it 's not necessarily to say that you know , that they |
| 16 | Naturally , to embark on such a step is not necessarily to succeed immediately in realising it . |
| 17 | The effect of peer-group pressure and of change in moral fashion is not necessarily to leave us devoid of values . |
| 18 | Processing large batches meant that firms tended to split programming from machine operating , but not necessarily to create separate departments for programming . |
| 19 | As he saw it , his role was not necessarily to support the region but to be the earpiece and branch line for the Secretary of State . |
| 20 | Finally , to describe the family in these terms is not necessarily to argue that societies other than those so-called ‘ industrial societies ’ may not possess some of these familial features as well . |
| 21 | However , it is surely necessary to agree also with Davies 's further observation that , to recognize the underlying force of such relatively informal and open modes of teaching is not necessarily to argue for a return to earlier more authoritative and intransitive modes . |
| 22 | The reasons for their success are not necessarily to do with their acuteness , not necessarily to do with their originality , but everything to do with sustaining the status-quo of the institution at that time . |
| 23 | The reasons for their success are not necessarily to do with their acuteness , not necessarily to do with their originality , but everything to do with sustaining the status-quo of the institution at that time . |
| 24 | Honours are one thing , and it 's not necessarily to do with class , because any one of any class can get on |
| 25 | This is true , but on the other hand it must be said that to give the wrong answer to a problem is not necessarily to miss the point of it . |
| 26 | To explain the intellectual polarities by reference to historical contingencies is not necessarily to explain them away . |
| 27 | But the aim now is not necessarily to liberate sexuality ( the sexual drive ) , but to eroticize the social while at the same time releasing it from the grip of sexuality especially as manifested in the ideology of sexual difference . |
| 28 | To , to , not necessarily to hit the black , but |
| 29 | Therefore the problem for us is not necessarily to get clients to install a new identity , but rather to find out which ‘ corporate communications ’ are unintelligible , and then to ask — in today 's cost-conscious times — whether it is worth putting them out at all . |
| 30 | To be concerned about the fate of historic buildings when thousands of people were being uprooted was not necessarily to pity the plumage and forget the dying bird . |