Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This hypothesis is largely but not wholly borne out by the empirical evidence . |
| 2 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
| 3 | Obsessionals are very good at dividing up their minds as it were , but they 're not necessarily divided up in the sense of conscious and unconscious . |
| 4 | The world No. 1 gave the tie her best , however , but even that was not enough to make up for the shortcomings of her second in command , Claudia Kohde- Kilsch . |
| 5 | Although people were allowed to eat other foods freely , in fact when they were deprived of their refined carbohydrates they tended not to increase their intake of these alternative foods very much — not enough to make up for the calories they were saving . |
| 6 | But that one painted notice is not enough to make up for the shabby doors , scruffy brickwork , and grimy frosted glass . |
| 7 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply . |
| 8 | It is not enough to switch off at the mains supply or at the project 's on/off switch . |
| 9 | Consumers liked being able to lift a bottle to their lips , and were not so hung up about the problems of disposing of bottles . |
| 10 | A lifestyle involving hard work , charity , abstinence from drink , strict morality , and thrift was deemed absolutely essential , as it was not only insisted on in the Bible , but was also seen as a sign of an individual 's elect status . |
| 11 | But remember , sugar does not only come out of a packet . |
| 12 | Both romantic lyricism and boogification not only date back to the beginnings of Elvis 's career but also continue to be used throughout its development . |
| 13 | Either that , or he could waylay one of the match officials and help run the line where he could not only point out to the referee the error of his ways but also use a brightly-coloured flag to do so . |
| 14 | My own guess , in the latter case , is that sheer ecstasy came with the discovery that it was possible not only to walk out of a marriage , but to do so and flourish , and that the rest of her life was devoted to recapturing this outrageous , outcast joy . |
| 15 | While at the same time as not merely coming out of the closet about his sexuality — in fact , by hardly admitting there was a closet there at all — he was also locking so many of his innermost thoughts away . |
| 16 | The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ . |
| 17 | The lorry had not long come out of the tunnel when Tony suddenly clicked his tongue and applied the footbrake . |
| 18 | " They 're not exactly queuing up at the door , though , are they ? " |
| 19 | He was pleased at the news , though it must be reported not exactly knocked down with a feather . |
| 20 | As Crawford , Winner and the ten-person film unit prepared to start work in the War Memorial Gallery , not exactly blending in with the surroundings , those on the floor of the Stock Exchange looked up , started screaming and shouting , and threw paper darts . |
| 21 | The merlin population has yet to recover , because they are still affected by levels of PCBs , which are not easily broken down by the environment and are still leaking from industrial sites . |
| 22 | As a result , more than three-quarters of its considerable rainfall does not easily run off to the sea . |
| 23 | The Kenyan government could not believe the duty-free photographic chain would not somehow leak out into the economy . |
| 24 | Life is not just sailing through on a mill pond with sort of red sails in the sunset and that idyllic picture , life is not like that . |
| 25 | I do n't perhaps not that bad but I would have definitely braked and not just eased off on the accelerator . |
| 26 | That should n't relate to all you RUNNING readers who have followed Bruce Tulloh 's training schedules thoroughly and not just turned up on the day , unprepared and with no training under your belt . |
| 27 | In line with this general movement came talk of installing an automatic watering scheme for greens and tees — and not just spurred on by the drought summers of 1975 and 1976 — but by the costs and difficulties of staffing a manual system and by the increasing use of such systems elsewhere ! |
| 28 | Labour , he said , would fight for more cash to run social services , not just lie down like the Tories and accept what they were given . |
| 29 | Of course , we can not just get out of the routines and struggles and problems we are already engaged in . |
| 30 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |