Example sentences of "[vb mod] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | To bring our participants ' social world to life in the kind of detail that is likely to carry conviction we must not just plunge into descriptions of the world of school and football ground , since without the concepts to see it no alternative to the official picture is likely to emerge . |
2 | In other words , Bukharin completely forgot that the extended reproduction … must not only lead to growth of c and v but also to that of α , i.e. to the growth of the individual consumption of the capitalists . |
3 | But you should not simply stick to subjects in which you did well at school . |
4 | I have been quietly considering if we too should not likewise break with philology … as practised till now " . |
5 | Instead of returning to the dressing-room to change as she normally did , she made her way through the backstage area back into the club , determined that he should n't simply disappear without trace as he 'd done on the previous evenings . |
6 | To do this will involve discussion of concepts which you may not immediately associate with volcanoes : the fact that Africa and South America were once joined and later drifted apart ; that the direction which is customarily thought of as ‘ north ’ would , a few million years ago , have appeared to be ‘ south ’ on an ordinary magnetic compass . |
7 | And the only way round that situation , that may not even amount to crime when they 're put in fear , it may amount to yobbos on the pavement , or people er , cycling on the pavement or just being their usual threatening loutish selves . |
8 | National emergencies , however , may not necessarily coincide with times of personal emergency and gold is an erratic investment . |
9 | National emergencies , however , may not necessarily coincide with times of personal emergency and gold is an erratic investment . |
10 | National emergencies , however , may not necessarily coincide with times of personal emergency and gold is an erratic investment . |
11 | While a failure to adhere to the provisions of this Code by an individual registrant may not necessarily amount to negligence or a breach of an implied contractual term by that registrant , such a failure may evidence an infringement of the Council 's Rules of Conduct which could lead to disciplinary proceedings . |
12 | It 's not it 's not as straightforward , the conclusions in respect of one may not necessarily apply in respect of the other . |
13 | A single eruption may not only last for months , but it may also consist of a series of separate , different phases , and in many cases different things may be going on on different parts of the same volcano at the same time . |
14 | POU family proteins may not only function as transcription factors . |
15 | Marslen-Wilson , Tyler and Seidenberg ( 1978 ) take the view that this online view of language processing is not necessarily inconsistent with a weak form of the clausal hypothesis , in that once a complete information unit ( which may not always coincide with clause boundaries ) has been interpreted , other processing which results in the freeing of working memory then takes place . |
16 | ‘ You 'll not even get to Reggane and that 's only a hundred and sixty kilometres into the desert . ’ |
17 | It was sufficient for the king 's purpose to avoid excommunication , but Anselm could not yet return to England because ‘ not being willing [ as Eadmer reports ] in any way to violate his obedience to the pope ’ he could have no dealings with the king 's excommunicated ministers . |
18 | Moreover , foreign policy dictated caution ; with France and Scotland in alliance , she could not immediately break with Spain , and for the first four months of her reign the watching world was asked to believe in her willingness to contemplate marriage with her late sister 's husband , Philip II . |
19 | The new President , the Premier , the two Deputy Premiers and the Defence Minister all held seats in the People 's Great Hural which they were required to give up , as it was stipulated that Cabinet post-holders could not concurrently serve as deputies to the assembly . |
20 | In the laboratory he did undoubtedly think with his hands thoughts which he could not clearly express in words , or in the more accurate language of mathematics ( which he distrusted ) ; but he did try in his lectures to put across some of his underlying convictions . |
21 | ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money . |
22 | ‘ We feel that to fund people who could not otherwise go to court is a very correct use of taxpayers ’ money' |
23 | There was one resignation from the committee in June , Elise felt she could not longer continue as publicity officer and we asked Rosetta to step into that office . |
24 | He could not even mention to Dinah that he felt uncertain , unsteady , blind with pain ; he could imagine her brisk reply ‘ Take it to a doctor . ’ |
25 | He said teachers in the humanities believed that pupils were obtaining grades they could not possibly achieve in exams . |
26 | He chose to take up the issue precisely because he thought it could not possibly lead to war , in that neither the Tsar , nor the Sultan in whose Empire Jerusalem was , would see the issue as of such importance . |
27 | She wept softly , while he held her and believed in the augury that this happiness could not possibly end in death on a battlefield , for such an end would be against all that was good and sweet and lovely in the world . |
28 | All who have given thought to the matter agree that an apparatus as complex as the human eye could not possibly come into existence through single-step selection . |
29 | I could not personally live without plants . |
30 | The Liberal Democrat spokesman , Mr Charles Kennedy , quoted a letter from the Department of Health which admitted patients were in a weak position to make meaningful comparisons or to shop around , so the NHS could not always rely on competition to make sure that its internal and external markets worked effectively . |