Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr. Livsey : Does the Secretary of State agree that there is great concern in rural Wales that the opt-out proposals in the review are totally unsuitable to that area and that the general practitioner services mentioned in the review are not properly structured to deliver the sort of services that should be provided in mid-Wales ?
2 High street spirits were further lifted by large crowds of post-Christmas shoppers in search of sales bargains , though this is not widely thought to herald the end of the recession .
3 The illusion arises because , while we learn the use of the word ‘ think ’ under particular circumstances , we do not thereby learn to describe the circumstances ( 111 , 114–16 ) .
4 ( 5 ) In respect of any orders for payment of standard basis costs by the plaintiffs to the defendants that have already been made it is , as we understand it , common ground that the court was not thereby purporting to deprive the defendants of any costs which they were contractually entitled to add to their security .
5 The ceremonies and festivities attending the coronation of French kings at Reims did much to enhance the popularity and reputation of the wines of Champagne — though they can not entirely have pleased the populace of Reims , who had to meet the expense of such occasions .
6 In posing these questions I am not necessarily wanting to provide the answers , and it may be that there are no simple answers to some of these questions .
7 They are soon disabused by their fellow students , and in ways which are not necessarily calculated to soothe the individual 's amour propre .
8 In the war , the Party had , in fact , to take on a number of new tasks , some of them important in the context of social welfare and organization , though not necessarily guaranteed to increase the popularity of the local functionaries .
9 It should perhaps be added that the amended section 4 would not necessarily have caught the conduct in question , because of its definition in terms of violence which might follow from the defendant 's conduct .
10 Unfortunately for authors , readers do not necessarily have to accept the terms they attempt to dictate , however subtly that attempt is made .
11 Your proxy does not necessarily have to sign the form himself or herself .
12 I have I have read it elsewhere and not necessarily having read the doc the whole of the document of the Leeds U D P but on that note , since Leeds leads would you like
13 To do so , however , the conversion rate had to be given to the pupils in a more convenient form than the number of foreign money units to the pound and pupils did not necessarily learn to apply the arithmetic algorithm to conversions .
14 Glenshee and Glencoe all had cover but not enough to justify running the lifts .
15 Not enough to bother thanking the people who gave them , it seems , ’ said Mum .
16 This profitability is maintained by a balancing act ; the fundamental chemical industry balance summed up in the fact that if you want to get the utmost out of sodium chloride , you should n't have either sodium or chlorine left over unsold at the end of the day ; not much use increasing the use of one if you ca n't increase use of the other in proportion .
17 It is not much use improving the number and quality of the prison buildings if the prison management does not also improve .
18 Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work .
19 But the Indonesian authorities are not only trying to control the rate at which the Timorese breed — they also want to dictate where they live .
20 In this Egypt not only wished to remove the refugee problem as a political issue , but also to encourage Israel to deny the West Bank to Jordan , Egypt 's enemy over the fate of Palestine .
21 The outcome of this meeting however , was that the Task Force not only decided to question the research priorities of the ARC , but also their methodology which typically relied upon research contracts awarded to outside firms of consultants to whom : —
22 Programmed ventricular stimulation not only helps to guide the selection of antiarrhythmic drug therapy but also provides important prognostic information .
23 With regard to the gradual exploration of historical time , reading not only helps to develop the concept of periods of time and of progression ( if not progress ) , but it also ( through the historical novel ) enables the reader to ‘ feel what it was like ’ .
24 This not only helps to keep the bloodlines pure , but also to avoid possible disappointment , as it may well be that the different types are as reluctant to interbreed as the morphs of Ps. zebra .
25 But when Duncan reminded him of this incident some years later , he " not only denied knowing the ballad but singing it … "
26 In seeking to solve this second problem of semantic exactitude , he not only fails to solve the problem of making meanings plain to the public but actually makes that problem a good deal more complex .
27 Now the holder of speculative balances not only has to consider the yield on close substitutes such as bonds , but he also has to take into account any prospective capital gains or losses which may accrue when buying the bond .
28 When preparing it , the archaeologist not only has to consider the text , but also what illustrations to include .
29 A boy who deliberately punctures another child 's bicycle tyre not only has to repair the tyre , but also must oil and polish the entire vehicle .
30 Dwyer told the players how he wanted to win the two-match series against Scotland and how he not only wanted to reclaim the Bledisloe Cup from the All Blacks but complete Australia 's first ever 3–0 series whitewash .
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