Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb infin] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , where are the political , legal , and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states ? |
| 2 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 3 | Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above . |
| 4 | Formerly , this sub-sub-delegation of supervisory powers to SRO 's did not effectively establish a system of self-regulation , since the principle of equivalence operated to ensure that the SIB retained significant control . |
| 5 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 6 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 7 | Managers should not necessarily blame an employee for failures , but should determine whether the process is to blame , and involve the staff in improving the process . |
| 8 | In the absence of such research , Troyna 's confident rejection of multiculturalist strategies can not be sustained , although of course the antiracist argument that teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ does not necessarily give an understanding of the racism of one 's own remains intact . |
| 9 | This does not necessarily mean a lack of interest . |
| 10 | It was suggested in the workshop that this does not or should not necessarily mean a cutback in the budget . |
| 11 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 12 | This does not necessarily mean an expansion of output or rise in output per head will take place , since a large proportion of the existing available workforce is either unemployed or underemployed in many LDCs . |
| 13 | In my case , being of Scottish descent does not necessarily mean an appreciation of Scottish humour ; I feel the Irish have a finer touch , giving life and subtlety to a jest . |
| 14 | The work with the Hypertext book did not necessarily identify a set of link types that were either generic to producing a book or to the topic of hypertext . |
| 15 | Adults considering enrolment on further or higher education courses ‘ shop around : with various factors in mind so that failure to enrol on any specific course does not necessarily equal a rejection of the idea of further study . |
| 16 | Promotion might not necessarily represent a change in class position for all white-collar workers . |
| 17 | These do not necessarily represent a kind of tyranny imposed by men on women . |
| 18 | It may finally be noted that the presence of a " synonymous " word-pair within a parallelistic couplet may not necessarily form an obstacle to the parallelism of greater specificity . |
| 19 | Such a line of argument is based primarily upon scripture , and does not necessarily involve a notion of there being male and female principles in the universe . |
| 20 | In other cases , however , no biochemical difference between the parental cell and the mutant could be pointed out , suggesting that alterations causing lack of transcription do not necessarily involve a defect in the DNA recognition of a transcriptional factor . |
| 21 | A fall in the interest rate on bonds , for example , will lead to an individual rearranging his wealth portfolio , but this will not necessarily involve a shift from bonds to money ( as in the Keynesian case ) ; it may involve a shift from bonds to some other financial asset or into property . |
| 22 | This does not necessarily involve a search for new inventions , but , rather , a concerted shortening of the lead-time between the inventions and their implementation in the form of new innovations . |
| 23 | If so , the restoration of the OR seen in these circumstances need not necessarily imply a change in the specific ability of the target stimulus to evoke its UR ; rather it may mean that even a weak tendency to emit this UR can be amplified substantially by a high level of arousal . |
| 24 | It should be noted , however , that to accept the retrieval-failure account of latent inhibition does not necessarily imply a rejection of all other theories of the phenomenon . |
| 25 | To say that the stance is one of knowing does not necessarily imply a belief in ‘ objectivity ’ ; the process may be thought of as a hermeneutic , interpretative one in which objective knowledge is not possible . |
| 26 | They do not necessarily have a lot of money but they do expect good value and a broad service . |
| 27 | Inasmuch as this constitutes a methodology , it presupposes learning aims which many students will not necessarily have an awareness of . |
| 28 | It operated within the limited confines of government at the centre , and in a society as localized as Scotland , did not necessarily have an impact on the domestic affairs of the country as a whole . |
| 29 | This whole approach would not necessarily require an immersion into the business environment but could draw on partnerships as a clearing house for the illumination and dissemination of the best practice around . |
| 30 | Although many patients in this group had abnormal results , both fast and slow emptying , the characterisation of an abnormality of gastric emptying in a patient with non-ulcer dyspepsia does not necessarily provide a key to effective treatment . |