Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I am in heaven — no , not dead just surrounded by metal detectors ! |
| 2 | This is an important issue which needs addressing given that commissioning authorities are not particularly accountable to the public and that an increasing proportion of purchasing power has devolved to general practitioner fundholders , who are not necessarily geographically distributed in proportion to need . |
| 3 | The conclusions we reach in this chapter , therefore , are that : MOST SEDIMENTATION IN THE CONTINENTAL AREAS IS LATERAL RATHER THAN VERTICAL AND IS NOT NECESSARILY DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH SUBSIDENCE . |
| 4 | A really well-designed state pension scheme ( complete with lump sums ) and not so closely tied to employment history as any of the current schemes on offer , could probably do as well or better than occupational or personal pension provision for most women . |
| 5 | Decretal letters , in answer to queries about particular legal points , came to be the major source of declaration during the twelfth century , more numerous than the decrees of councils but not so easily disseminated for use . |
| 6 | ‘ CT ST N T MT , ’ will soon be exposed by crossword buffs as ‘ The cat sat on the mat , ’ but place names are not so easily guessed by context . |
| 7 | The Northern Ireland Act 1982 provides for the existing Assembly ( which lacks both legislative and executive powers ) to make proposals for the transfers to the Assembly of legislative and executive powers but such proposals must be such as to be ‘ likely to command widespread acceptance throughout the community ’ and although attempts are currently under way to evolve such proposals , they have not so far met with success . |
| 8 | that this conference congratulates our Bolshevik comrades of Russia on their splendid efforts to bring about a general peace , and their unflinching opposition to the brigands of international capital , though we deplore the fact that their efforts to stir the workers of all the belligerents to revolutionary action has not so far met with success , yet we promise to do all in our power to awaken the proletariat of this country to class consciousness so that a speedy end may overtake the tyranny of capital . |
| 9 | As United Kingdom exports increase , there will be a multiplier effect on national income which we have not so far taken into account . |
| 10 | Our bondage to society is not so much established by conquest as by collusion … we are entrapped by our own social nature . |
| 11 | In another area , for example in the interior regions of Italy , where land is in short supply and where production patterns are not so severely restricted by climate and latitude , a more diversified farming pattern may be possible . |
| 12 | In the South , where Labour was not so deeply influenced by trade-union traditions , the local parties were becoming an increasingly coherent pressure group with a common outlook and a tendency to look outside the Labour Party and towards the Communists for ideological guidance . |
| 13 | The siren , a metre-long amphibian from the southern United States , has lost its back legs altogether and its front legs are not only greatly reduced in size but have no bones within them , merely cartilage , so that they are of no practical use in locomotion . |
| 14 | This means that consciousness in its ideological form is not merely arbitrarily determined by material relations but is specifically determined by the set of economic relations existing in a given society . |
| 15 | Prior to liability management , banks paid interest on comparatively few deposit liabilities and where they did such rates were not always closely related to market rates . |
| 16 | In framing its policies for the future , we hope that the Council will fully acknowledge the importance of the land use planning system , something which is not clearly enough stated in Threshold 21 . |
| 17 | This is because computerised information is not as rigidly organised in advance , which means that you can search through it in any way you please . |
| 18 | Nor is it yet the whole truth ; presenting the experiments in the way I have chosen , as I said at the beginning of this chapter , has been a logical way to tell a story , even if a story not yet adequately grounded in theory . |
| 19 | This is a corner of the Island not yet fully refurbished by development . |
| 20 | ‘ Her doc , if he 's not too far sunk in slumber or wine . ’ |
| 21 | Of the other political parties , Labour is not very explicitly committed to citizenship . |
| 22 | their fannies are n't so neatly set in front |
| 23 | This is n't very high compared to shareware alternatives , such as McAfee VirusScan or F-Prot . |