Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Maturity comes late and the cows are often as much as four years old before they conceive , while the bulls can be sexually mature at 18–20 months old but do not usually mate until about four years old .
2 The state has to respond to various pressures which are contradictory and do not unequivocally maintain and support the capitalist process of accumulation .
3 Transfer of training from a simulator to a real situation is never complete and does not necessarily increase with degree of fidelity .
4 However , the conclusions of Gilbert and Specht are indirect and do not necessarily show that client participation in implementation stages is ineffective .
5 ‘ Generally ‘ to stand ’ means to allow the motor vehicle ( or trailer ) to remain stationary and does not necessarily mean unattended ( Hinde v Evans ( 1906 ) 70 JP 548 ) although this will normally be the case .
6 Ecalpemos , after all , was not Greek and did not even sound so to Rufus who , unlike Adam , had not received a classical education .
7 They are artificial and do not adequately measure the students ' ability to use the complex information tools available and thereby gain the information that would be of use for their studies .
8 Though there is some additional variation in utilisation rates which is explained by social factors , it is relatively small and does not necessarily mean that additional variation in morbidity would be explained .
9 While both the philosophical and sociological responses to Mannheim 's work was critical and did not exactly embrace the sociology of knowledge as an exciting new project , it has been recognized as a promising new area for development .
10 In these two genera the tentacle pores on the arm are open and do not usually have tentacle scales .
11 He knows that I have often thought that the exceptional needs payment scheme was complex , slow and did not often reach those most in need .
12 Most deaf people are still educated within a system which has at its base a language that is , at best , not fully accessible because it is based on hearing ; at worst , it is a language which is completely alien and does not adequately describe deaf experience .
13 Reconstituted families will become increasingly common but do not yet have a clear identity in British social life .
14 In general the causes could be : — the teacher was inadequately aware of the point — he concentrated on some other equally important point — the documentation was either misleading or did not adequately stress the point — the program presentation did not adequately support it .
15 As there was no effective treatment , the asylums were more custodial than therapeutic and did not usually cater for investigation and research .
16 Some peaks of demand can be dealt with by using consultants , but they tend to be expensive and do not always fit well with ill-defined but important factors such as the favoured style of the organisation .
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