Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , recent research indicates that the slim person is not necessarily eating in a way to promote maximum health . |
| 2 | To identify a fluttering shadow as the outline of a bird is not so revealing as the recognition that it is actually cast by a butterfly . |
| 3 | If nothing else , the Christmas editions of NME , Sounds , and Melody Maker are a barometer of hip opinion , although not so revealing as the readers ' polls which follow a couple of months later . |
| 4 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 5 | Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world . |
| 6 | Waves D , C , B and A show progressively greater degrees of retardation , with resulting greater degrees of refraction until wave A is not only breaking against the point but also against the sides of the headland . |
| 7 | Moreover , aspiring members of this new class were not only moving about the country ; they were also moving upward , abandoning grandparents who could not keep up , or did not wish to do so . |
| 8 | Anstey 's approach to this edition was initially intended to be thematic but she has reverted to the chronological format of the first edition , thus not only dispensing with the problems of placing the themes but also giving the reader a parallel in comment on Thomas 's development both in poetry and prose . |
| 9 | These monographs are not only binding in the member countries , but also carry the force of law in the British Commonwealth and in former colonies of France , Spain and Belgium . |
| 10 | When Richard Crossman described secrecy as the British disease , he was not merely referring to the terms of the Official Secrets Act . |
| 11 | Though we may become more irritable and find life 's demands more stressful , loss of sleep is not physically damaging to the body . |
| 12 | When I first started , I was not exactly working toward a goal , but having fun collecting with Basil Taylor 's assistance . |
| 13 | A short way out of Pau on the opposite side to Lescar , to the north-east , is Morlaas , a small town that tends to get left out of the local guidebooks as not somehow belonging to the Pyrenees . |
| 14 | I 'm just going for a piss now I 'm not fucking going to the toilet . |
| 15 | I 'm not just referring to the kind that Pinder indulged in , but trips to the bathroom , that sort of thing . |
| 16 | if they ever do discover who was responsible , and it 's not without the bounds of possibility , it 's going to cause an awful lot of red faces and I 'm not just referring to the villain himself . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's only really the chap on the ground who gets to know what 's going on , gets chatting — and not just chatting with the management of the firm — chatting with the chap that runs the pretreatment plant , y'know , having a cup of tea with him and generally getting to know the individuals and the characters . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're not just shivering from the cold . |
| 19 | You 're not just looking for a brother . |
| 20 | All three features are designed to convey that Henry is not just looking at the roots but reflecting on them and struggling to think what it is they bring to mind . |
| 21 | We are not just watching from the sidelines , but rather are rolling our sleeves up and getting involved not just in getting local people back into work , but in keeping them there . |
| 22 | That ability has led us into the more specialized areas and it has demonstrated that success was not just getting through the traumas of the 70s and taking costs out of the business , but in finding different directions in which to take the business . ’ |
| 23 | It 's a problem which applies to all young photographers apparently , not just operating in the music field . |
| 24 | With this assumption his principle followed fairly simply , and later physicists — William Thomson and Rudolf Clausius — had problems in incorporating Carnot 's law into the new theory , where heat was motion of particles and was actually being converted into mechanical work and not just flowing through the engine . |
| 25 | A defendant who admits his conviction but denies its relevance is probably also putting up a positive case and not just relying on a denial of which particulars would not normally be ordered . |
| 26 | Managing Director of Rockcliffe , Graham Campbell said , ’ We are not just going with the trend , we are about to overtake it . ’ |
| 27 | Right , but presumably if that , that work 's not just going by the board that 's , that 's right |
| 28 | It is important here to stress that it is not just hitting to the target that is foremost , but at all times moving the feet to take the ball in one bounce . |
| 29 | ‘ At least I will be using my skills while I 'm abroad , not just bumming round the world for a year ! ’ |
| 30 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |