Example sentences of "they [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humanism considered the most powerful or most noble within society to be the best readers and directed writing at them not exclusively because writers looked to this class for generous rewards or for some snobbish appeal . |
| 2 | In consequence , there are many single wavenumber patterns , some of them of a complexity that makes them not instantly recognizable as such ; for example , one of them is a hexagonal pattern rather like Fig. 4.9 . |
| 3 | Young kids , some of them not even teenagers , were arriving all the time , mostly for reasons that they had n't thought through or could n't express . |
| 4 | The people who most often admitted that they understood them not well were , in order ( worst first ) : unskilled workers , women , pensioners and skilled manual workers . |
| 5 | Refugees bring with them not just a bundle of belongings but an accumulation of skills and knowledge and a real determination to make a positive contribution to their new country . |
| 6 | This might well have saved them not just travelling time , but also energy . |
| 7 | The long occupation of northern France by the Lancastrian kings could never have been carried out without the active participation of men , many of them not yet noble , performing the tasks of their captains who , as noblemen with lands in England , had to return every so often to their estates to see to their upkeep . |
| 8 | Increasingly , investigators have become aware of a rather heterogeneous range of problems ( some of them not particularly easy to formulate ) which may be characterized as ethical . |
| 9 | Many approved of this , including one Brit rock press hack who 'd pronounced ‘ The Pogues ’ to be in much better shape than the real thing who 'd seen them not long before . |
| 10 | I get it form most of his kind , who remember that I was once a private investigator , and so to them not far removed for law . |
| 11 | To go out well-dressed , he checked his appearance in the mirror , and so draped the toga on his body that a graceful knot gathered the folds , arranging them not randomly but with care , so that the sinus was composed to flow down the side , defining its outline . |
| 12 | Having accepted that , we then have the obligation to recognise them not as mere units of production but as beings with rights to a reasonable quality of life and a gentle death . |
| 13 | Here it is sufficient to note that the analysis presented above offers a plausible interpretation of several distinct relationships by treating them not as unique isolates but as interlocking parts of a larger pattern with a clearly defined structure . |
| 14 | Where there are exceptions , it 's helpful to consider them not as different patterns , but as words : that is , the pattern of valley , alley , ( cf. ally ) should not be stressed , because there are very few words spelled that way . |
| 15 | Some of them not as high as the non-metals but most of have got to get to a few hundred degrees C before they start . |
| 16 | He issues this warning to parents : ‘ Let them not too much apply themselves to the disposition of their children ’ — in short , not to become obsessed with the whole business of bringing them up . |
| 17 | We just followed footprints in the snow and sometimes , in the morning when the air was still , we 'd think we heard them not too far away . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought them not too bad at the time . |
| 19 | The city is lucky in its proximity to unspoiled woodlands , some of them not much more than ten minutes walking from the centre . |
| 20 | and erm there were all sorts of funny stories and erm some of them not quite so funny about erm the way that the children and erm mothers from Dagenham came by sea and landed at , at Felixstowe |
| 21 | This gave them not so much a production holiday , more like two serials ‘ in the can ’ for season two ( up to and including the rapidly commissioned ‘ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ’ ) that could be recorded during season one 's contractual period . |
| 22 | In Protestant countries the morality of sexual restraint and fidelity was supposed to be binding on both sexes , but the very fact that it was felt to be so even by those who broke it , led them not so much into hypocrisy as into personal torment . |
| 23 | Until recently they were joint stewards of the Royal British Legion in Swindon , into which they 'd poured four and a half thousand pounds of their own money , and just months ago received a letter from the board telling them not so work so hard . |
| 24 | The sonic pulse systems emitted by toothed whales are directional and most species seem to use them not only to detect food but also to make fine distinctions on the basis of the echoes . |
| 25 | He stood out among them not only because he had a surer command of his people at home , but also because Cuba is where it is , so the Russians helped him much more than the rest . |
| 26 | Lady Morton had no doubt enjoined them not only to look after his every need , but also to report back to her . |
| 27 | Boy did not throw these letters away ; he kept them all , and indeed read them not only on the day that they arrived but again and again during the week before the arrival of the next one , but he did not keep these letters in his box , and he did not reply to them either . |
| 28 | Older people , on the basis of chronological age , are progressively removed from economic life , which provides them not only with income , but structures their daily routines and integrates them into regular social relationships . |
| 29 | The crusading Knights brought back with them not only exotic and costly perfumes , but the knowledge of how to distil them . |
| 30 | Governing bodies must develop strategies for cooperation across LEAs which enable them not only to share some resources , but also to apply greater pressure on decisions about the size of the education budget . |