Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this did not expressly exclude the Minority Movement , the growth of Communist-led " rank and file movements " did in effect bring an end to the MM and to all formal Party subsidiaries within the unions . |
| 2 | It is perhaps not widely appreciated the effect deforestation can have on a country like Ethiopia . |
| 3 | In other words , the speaker 's use of run does not necessarily give the hearer access to the entry for SPRINT . |
| 4 | For many decades , a deposit of £150 was required and even the £500 now suggested will not necessarily deter the strip club owner or pop star who is otherwise lacking in publicity and for whom the outlay of such a sum may well be worthwhile . |
| 5 | It does not necessarily reflect the trading position of the company as a whole . |
| 6 | How on earth can the Government ensure that tenant participation takes place if they force through a tendering process which will not necessarily guarantee the tenant involvement we want ? |
| 7 | Fairbrother 's performances in the first two Tests were encouraging , but not enough to quieten the Gower camp . |
| 8 | There is not much temperature-produced density contrast at a given level ; thus this does not much affect the buoyancy force . |
| 9 | This will not only protect the notice face from the weather but also deter the vandal . |
| 10 | Where the degree course and the HNC/HND course are designed to form a continuous integrated programme and where students by the end of the second year or the equivalent stage have not only achieved the SCOTVEC award but also satisfied the objectives and reached the standard required by CNAA for that stage of a degree course , students may take one further academic year of full-time study for a Degree and two further academic years of full-time study for an Honours Degree ( or the part-time equivalents ) . |
| 11 | Since Agrostis/Festuca swards only occur on the more fertile soils and are agriculturally more productive , heavy stocking not only alters the vegetation composition but reduces the grazing value . |
| 12 | Notice that holding the intermediate result of a calculation in the accumulator not only shortens the instruction length , but also increases the instruction execution speed , since the access time to a processor register is shorter than to a store location . |
| 13 | As she outlines in her chapter of Passion entitled Mapping : Blackwomen Artists 1980–90 , she not only created the ground plan of contemporary Black Art in Britain but also curated such essential exhibitions as 5 Black Women at the Africa Centre and Black Woman Time Now . |
| 14 | He not only created the material world but also , like a divine watchmaker , set it going by an initial injection of motion , and kept it going by occasional adjustments . |
| 15 | By laying down larger areas of copper track , you will not only make the copper foil pattern better able to adhere to the board , but you will speed up the etching time also . |
| 16 | Additional problems are created by the heaviness of the monsoon rains which not only wash the sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen out of the air and over the marble but further erode any weaknesses in the stone . |
| 17 | Not only does the specialist equipment have to be made available to disabled people ; training and advice on how to use the equipment should also be provided . |
| 18 | In a situation where many short sectors are to be flown , with minimal turn-round times , not only does the crew co-ordination have to be well-drilled , but also the aeroplane has to be right for the job . |
| 19 | Not only does the promotion system mean that people who rise to the top are likely to have just those personal characteristics it takes to commit corporate crime , but these are also reinforced by the psychological consequences of success itself , for these too free a person from the moral bind of conventional values . |
| 20 | Not only does the cutting edge vary in shape , there are a variety of patterns of shanks ; the metal behind the blade . |
| 21 | Across the road in Parliament in the late sixties , as Wilson , Castle and Crossman wore themselves out in the cause , as they saw it , of a more modern and socially just Britain , there sat in the Leader of the Opposition 's office a man who not only shared the Jenkins view of workload but was planning exactly what he would do about it if the electorate gave him his chance . |
| 22 | Such an arrangement , if introduced , will not only simplify the grant system but should also be more neutral in effect ( by neither penalizing nor rewarding authorities for expenditure above or below GREA — see Wilson , 1986 , p. 52 ) . |
| 23 | It must never be lost sight of that the objective of an R&D project is not only met the target performance specification but , equally importantly , to produce and prove a design that can be manufactured efficiently and exploited profitably . |
| 24 | There is evidence to suggest that the most successful projects are pioneered by ‘ champions ’ , who not only sponsor the project proposal in the first place but manage the implementation phase and often the early stages of fully-fledged operation . |
| 25 | Edward was not only to regain the Angevin inheritance in France , but also the coast of Picardy , the Counties of Guines and Boulogne , and suzerainty over Brittany . |
| 26 | It is obviously a wider term than motor vehicle as it not only embraces the term motor vehicle but includes a bicycle and other such contraptions which are not propelled by engines . |
| 27 | Bodine not only documents the prescriptivist promotion of he over they , she also quotes extensively from the passages in which grammarians give reasons for their choice . |
| 28 | The greater number of developers are not necessarily confined to any particular geographical area and will , therefore , not only investigate the market potential in the immediate locality of their home base , but Will be equally prepared to operate at a distance . |
| 29 | Not only has the hire purchase agreement on the Line been paid off a year early , but a new 50-year lease has just been signed with British Rail for Platforms three and four at Keighley Station , where K & WVR steam trains interchange with Regional Railways and the Metro Trains . |
| 30 | They include both operatives and staff specialists such as engineers in the same circle , oriented towards not only reducing the wastage rate but also making technological and process improvements . |