Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , where are the political , legal , and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states ? |
| 2 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 3 | Formerly , this sub-sub-delegation of supervisory powers to SRO 's did not effectively establish a system of self-regulation , since the principle of equivalence operated to ensure that the SIB retained significant control . |
| 4 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 5 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 6 | This does not necessarily mean a lack of interest . |
| 7 | It was suggested in the workshop that this does not or should not necessarily mean a cutback in the budget . |
| 8 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 9 | The work with the Hypertext book did not necessarily identify a set of link types that were either generic to producing a book or to the topic of hypertext . |
| 10 | Adults considering enrolment on further or higher education courses ‘ shop around : with various factors in mind so that failure to enrol on any specific course does not necessarily equal a rejection of the idea of further study . |
| 11 | Promotion might not necessarily represent a change in class position for all white-collar workers . |
| 12 | These do not necessarily represent a kind of tyranny imposed by men on women . |
| 13 | Such a line of argument is based primarily upon scripture , and does not necessarily involve a notion of there being male and female principles in the universe . |
| 14 | In other cases , however , no biochemical difference between the parental cell and the mutant could be pointed out , suggesting that alterations causing lack of transcription do not necessarily involve a defect in the DNA recognition of a transcriptional factor . |
| 15 | A fall in the interest rate on bonds , for example , will lead to an individual rearranging his wealth portfolio , but this will not necessarily involve a shift from bonds to money ( as in the Keynesian case ) ; it may involve a shift from bonds to some other financial asset or into property . |
| 16 | This does not necessarily involve a search for new inventions , but , rather , a concerted shortening of the lead-time between the inventions and their implementation in the form of new innovations . |
| 17 | If so , the restoration of the OR seen in these circumstances need not necessarily imply a change in the specific ability of the target stimulus to evoke its UR ; rather it may mean that even a weak tendency to emit this UR can be amplified substantially by a high level of arousal . |
| 18 | It should be noted , however , that to accept the retrieval-failure account of latent inhibition does not necessarily imply a rejection of all other theories of the phenomenon . |
| 19 | To say that the stance is one of knowing does not necessarily imply a belief in ‘ objectivity ’ ; the process may be thought of as a hermeneutic , interpretative one in which objective knowledge is not possible . |
| 20 | They do not necessarily have a lot of money but they do expect good value and a broad service . |
| 21 | Although many patients in this group had abnormal results , both fast and slow emptying , the characterisation of an abnormality of gastric emptying in a patient with non-ulcer dyspepsia does not necessarily provide a key to effective treatment . |
| 22 | Anti-road campaigners called for the government to guarantee long-term protection for Oxleas Wood and pointed out that the change of mind did not necessarily signal a change of policy , with the government 's £23,000 million roads programme continuing to threaten 160 sites of special scientific interest , many of them more valuable than Oxleas Wood . |
| 23 | While the firm would not be compelled to disclose or utilise the information about B when advising A , the fact that it owes a duty of confidentiality to B will not necessarily constitute a defence to a breach of its duty of disclosure to A. If the firm is to be fully protected it must obtain A2 's consent to its acting in the conflict situation after informing him of its conflicting duties and the fact that it can not perform its full duties of disclosure . |
| 24 | New funding arrangements for community care will not necessarily put a stop to such perverse incentives and may indeed provide further scope for cost shifting . |
| 25 | We would not necessarily seek a contribution from the previous insurers where the remedial work required to rectify the damage occurring whilst we are on cover has swamped any pre-existing damage . |
| 26 | ‘ Could you not perhaps raise a mortgage on your house ? |
| 27 | Does he realise that if he will not act on the problem , it will not only produce a tide of human misery , but will bring to a clattering end any hope of economic recovery ? |
| 28 | Officials say more caution when buying could not only save a lot of trouble but just perhaps your life as well . |
| 29 | To the credit of both Hortense and Le Bas , it was agreed that Louis-Napoleon should be enrolled in the High School at Augsburg , a move which it was hoped would not only remove a tendency to idleness and day-dreaming but would also give him a chance to make friends with other boys of his own age . |
| 30 | In each case , the child must not only find a way of getting the adult to notice the object , but she must do this in such a way that the adult is aware of what she is doing and why she is doing it . |