Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not entirely clear why financial deregulation is taking place . |
| 2 | Do not suddenly take up violent exercise after years of inactivity , or you will injure yourself . |
| 3 | While in talks with his own advisers the president did not necessarily rule out armed action at some later date , he vetoed a CIA plan to " topple Nasser " . |
| 4 | Some nuns and priests chose to go into the FMLN controlled zones where they are not only carrying out religious work but also helping in the educational campaigns . |
| 5 | The new discoveries not only provided more detailed evidence for the development of life on earth , but also highlighted the exotic nature of the earth 's earlier inhabitants . |
| 6 | More and more , in other words , these now possessed the means not merely to carry out foreign policy but also to study foreign policy questions in some depth . |
| 7 | Much of the impetus behind such thinking has come from dowsers who realized that they were not just picking up underground water but something else , which they called telluric force . |
| 8 | Local hierarchy did not always read off academic excellence as the desired end of local practice , so that there was less concern in these rural areas for the fate of the top few than for that of the majority . |
| 9 | Symptoms , however , do not always imply objectively demonstrable reflux , particularly after antireflux surgery . |
| 10 | Between 1958/9 and 1979/80 it rose sharply ( in England from 36.1 per cent to 48.5 per cent ) , but this did not automatically mean more central control , any more than the subsequent fall by 1984/5 to 39.2 per cent meant increased local freedom ( all figures from Travers , 1986 , table app. 7 ) . |
| 11 | Rousseau misses the point that direct experience is often inadequate as direct experience : an actual motor-car engine , even one that can be taken apart , does not really explain how internal combustion powers a car . |
| 12 | This can be an expensive way of producing local history studies — especially if a duplicate copy is made for the county record office — and we do not yet know how long video film can be stored before it deteriorates . |
| 13 | He did not completely rule out qualified majority voting on foreign policy issues . |
| 14 | You do n't really realise how precious time is until it starts running out . ’ |
| 15 | I ca n't really ring up British Coal to say what about wooden , Woodstow my friends . |
| 16 | But Schell says : ‘ We do n't really know how food-chain transfer works … |