Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] the new [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | France Telecom has moved to try to improve the situation — nearly a month ago , the operator reviewed its objectives and decided to offer GSM service to 90% of the French population in 1994 , rather than in 1997 , as it had previously planned , but that was not enough to satisfy the new government . |
2 | An aesthetically satisfactory answer to the need to insert additional windows to light the new lower-level accommodation was found by not only siting the new openings in the same vertical alignment as the original triparite lights , but also by aiming to reproduce the general appearance of the existing windows . |
3 | This is why I think Walter Wink 's recent study on the ‘ powers ’ of the New Testament ( Wink 1984 ) is so interesting ; he demonstrates that power concepts not only saturate the New Testament but are an essential aspect of its message . |
4 | The US State Department announced on Dec. 3 that it would not formally recognize the new regime , which it accused of being backed and financed by Libya . |
5 | The governors stuck reasonably well to their instructions on this and other matters and , while they did not always understand the new societies in which they were serving , eighteenth-century attacks on their competence were certainly on some occasions political propaganda that colonists were naturally tempted to launch against men who were carrying out the policy of a distant monarch and government . |
6 | ‘ Some countries have not even got the new legislation on the statute books . |
7 | Cumbria has not yet acknowledged the new boundary by a sign . |
8 | The Bank was due to review progress towards meeting these conditions in April ; shortly before the Indian government announced its decision , the Bank had warned that it was not yet satisfying the new conditions . |
9 | This is because they have not yet learned the new rules and are still trying old techniques of gaining reactions from their parents . |
10 | ‘ France has her eyes on you , ’ he had told them in his first Order of the Day , and the troops had their eyes on Pétain ; even though for the best part of a week they were not actually to see the new commander in person . |
11 | Unfortunately , it was the same reliance on that market that also killed it , as BMC realised it could n't economically meet the new US emissions and safety requirements of the late '60s . |
12 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |