Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently read Stacey 's study of the council , published with its blessing and undertaken by the same means of ‘ participant observation , ’ albeit not apparently requiring the same degree of deception . |
| 2 | The staff profiles presented in Chapter 2 indeed confirmed that the average volunteer is a woman in her late forties , but studies have also highlighted a wide spread of ages , with paid staff not necessarily lowering the average age . |
| 3 | In trying to persuade to move away from arrangements which utilize those bearings we 're effectively trying to do ourselves a favour , because we can not provide those bearings , but we 're not necessarily offering the optimum engineering solution , or maybe even the total cost solution in certain applications |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As a result , research in this area is not only clarifying the possible role of prerequisite abilities and environmental support , but it is also resulting in some very strong indications that infants are , to a remarkable degree , pre-adapted to the kinds of learning necessary for language acquisition ( for example , see Gleitman and Wanner 1982 ) . |
| 6 | This includes not only documenting the sectoral pattern of activity in cities , but also an appraisal of the consequences in terms of job opportunities for different groups within the economically active population . |
| 7 | There appeared to be little prospect of dialogue , however , as Serbian political leaders were not only denouncing the Albanian demonstrators as " terrorists " , but openly accusing leaders in Slovenia and Croatia of trying to undermine Serbia by voicing support for the demands of the Kosovar Albanians . |
| 8 | Good old Britain : not only doing the wrong thing but unable to keep it secret . |
| 9 | For example , Turnock ( 1968 ) in a study of northeast Scotland found that depopulation in the area was not only a function of a retreat from hill farming but also a process of concentration into fewer but larger settlements , and Johnston ( 1965 ) in a study of northern England found that village size was important in not only retaining the existing population but also attracting newcomers from nearby towns . |
| 10 | Hazard research , like few other GIS application areas , is not only stretching the present technology to its limits but is a quite remarkable focus of international effort into several important research-related areas such as expert systems and simulation studies . |
| 11 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 12 | Now the Labour party control the city council , may I say this , that if your feelings are against barbaric sport as much as that , why do n't you use your contr , your controlling power on the city council and then ban boxing in all the city establishments , then you will show me that you mean what you are saying and that you are not just using the present position of this council for a political measure and political gain and I 'd like to also ask what this has cost the council what this has cost could be thousands . |
| 13 | The CEGB was not just briefing the Daily Telegraph . |
| 14 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 15 | Communion actually the Holy Communion has become so much more important to us and so much more exciting to us because we 're not just celebrating the living Christ we 're also celebrating the crucified Christ and we 're simply meeting our pain and our joys together in communion with him . |
| 16 | But the sellers were not normally asking the maximum wage which the traffic would bear and offering in return the minimum quantity of labour they could get away with . |
| 17 | It provided a subtle bridge to the promised land of successful survival : not overtly trumpeting the triumphant rebirth of conspicuous consumption , but nevertheless easing in an almost unconscious separation from raging youth . |
| 18 | Is he not still missing the real point if he really wants to do something radical to promote opportunities for people at work , and create rights for citizens at work to ownership and participation in decision-making at the place of work ? |
| 19 | It would erm , provide er , a base where activities could take place in that area , but whilst not , if you like , not directly benefiting the Social Services Committee , or the people that then go to it , would indirectly benefit us in that it would be available for youth and other activities in support of the community that have a knock-on effect er , as far as we 're concerned . |
| 20 | When your small child behaves selfishly she is not deliberately disregarding the other person 's feelings , she is simply unaware of them . |
| 21 | Two people winking are not always doing the same thing . |
| 22 | Alterations to a building not materially affecting the external appearance of the building , agricultural operations and the resumption of a former lawful planning use at the end of a temporary planning consent are excluded from the definition of the 1971 Act . |
| 23 | I 'm not even taking the next game for granted . |
| 24 | American negotiators say that they are not even talking the same language as the Community on farm support . |
| 25 | We 're not even talking the same language here . |
| 26 | By eschewing such girls he avoided a lot of foreign in-laws and chatter in disparate tongues , and the misunderstandings that are inevitably worsened by not quite speaking the same language . |
| 27 | The adoral shields are rectangular to wing-like just or not quite separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 28 | FOLLOWING in father 's footsteps , but not quite matching the old man 's gait , is a fact of life in horses as well as humans . |
| 29 | Actuaries in the United Kingdom are ready and able to play their part , not least following the recent growth in the number of suitably experienced and qualified actuaries . |
| 30 | He stood there wide eyed , not fully understanding the appalling scene . |