Example sentences of "not [adv] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is true , but on the other hand it must be said that to give the wrong answer to a problem is not necessarily to miss the point of it . |
| 2 | To call an activity , or aspects of an activity , or even a person ‘ professional ’ is not necessarily to apply a seal of approval . |
| 3 | But taking care is not enough to stop the kind of terrible crimes that are so often carried out by people who are truly evil or sick . |
| 4 | Still not enough to ease the misery for the Central South football sides . |
| 5 | It is not enough to acknowledge the importance of collective entrepreneurship ; clear and consistent signals must reinforce the new story . |
| 6 | Such a slight obstruction was not enough to affect the taking of the sortes , when they were opening the book with ceremony , both hands parting the leaves and a finger pointing the line . |
| 7 | One of the lessons we learned early on from QES was that it 's not enough to appoint a number of specialist trainers , brilliant though they may be , and expect them to lead change . |
| 8 | It is not enough to agree a deal in principle with a receiver , the purchaser will have to deliver the cash before anyone else in order to win . |
| 9 | The final circuit dropped Marrs back to 14th while Barthelsson had worked his way steadily up from 12th after one lap to 4th at the finish , a systematic climb through the top of the fleet but not enough to put a Swede in the top three placings , the initial group ( except Marrs ) not having changed throughout the race . |
| 10 | ‘ And under the law , it is simply not enough to design a kitchen with good equipment in it — you must now have the means to monitor and control operations , ’ he said . |
| 11 | If a payment in is made less than 21 days before the trial , and is not accepted , the court is entitled to take the fact and amount of the payment in into account in exercising its discretion as to costs ( King v Weston-Howell [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 375 ) , although it should be noted that in Bowen v Mills and Knight Ltd [ 1973 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 580 it was held that even one day less was not enough to protect the defendant in costs . |
| 12 | It would be different if you really did love him , but I do n't think you do … certainly not enough to make the kind of sacrifices that would be necessary if you did marry him . ’ |
| 13 | If the performance of the 80586 and the MIPS R4000 is only off plus or minus 20% , it 's not enough to make the hassle worth it . |
| 14 | It is not enough to begin every quotation with " Taylor says … " or " Thomson writes … " or when memory and initiative fall " some historians say … |
| 15 | as if the casualties being inflicted on members of the armed forces of both parties , not to speak of the crews of the largely neutral shipping involved , were not enough to satisfy the appetite of some mythical god of war , further carnage was developing , mainly in the latter half of the war , among the civilian populations of both countries . |
| 16 | Here , since the word-meaning PLAYS is not enough to identify the target of the speaker 's attention , it is extended by a subordinate entity : the subordinate linguistic expression continues to identify its own entity even though it is present in order to assist in the identification of a different entity , which is specified by the expression as a whole . |
| 17 | These days , sadly , the natural system is not enough to ensure the survival of the species . |
| 18 | But stability alone is not enough to ensure the prosperity of British industry . |
| 19 | Occasionally we may be able to identify a palm , fig , or olive tree , but even this is not enough to limit the location to a particular ecological zone ; oak trees , for instance , can be found from 680 metres down to sea-level . |
| 20 | Wycliffe had no idea but surely not enough to provide a motive for murder . |
| 21 | The rule of law thus described still prevails in the Probate Court , where it is not enough to prove a relation between testator and beneficiary , which in the court of equity would require the beneficiary to displace the presumption of undue influence by proving independent advice to the testator . |
| 22 | They had realised , as William Pitt had done , that minimum wage legislation , even if it were based on a family with three children , was not enough to meet the need of all families . |
| 23 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 24 | Can an exhaust brake be fitted to my 1989 Range Rover Vogue V8 auto as , on long declines it will gain enough momentum not only to rip the skin off a rice pudding , but take the table and chairs with it . |
| 25 | On the first day of the war the prime minister , Yildirim Akbulut , asked the national assembly not only to sanction the use of the bases for American bombing raids but also to allow the Turkish armed forces themselves to go on the offensive . |
| 26 | Is the Minister interested in building homes in Britain not only to tackle the problem of homelessness but to allow peple to move within the private sector ? |
| 27 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 28 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 29 | He wrote not only to defend the faith against persecuting governors , sceptical philosophers , and combative rabbis , but also to uphold the authentic tradition against Simon Magus ' followers ( Acts 8 : 9 ) or the adherents of Marcion and the Gnosticizing Platonist Valentine . |
| 30 | It seems clear , however , that McGonagle 's aim is not only to create a centre for the traditional masters of modernism , but to display contemporary art which encourages an interaction with the public , connecting the gallery with the community rather than separating art from it . |