Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Livsey : Does the Secretary of State agree that there is great concern in rural Wales that the opt-out proposals in the review are totally unsuitable to that area and that the general practitioner services mentioned in the review are not properly structured to deliver the sort of services that should be provided in mid-Wales ? |
| 2 | High street spirits were further lifted by large crowds of post-Christmas shoppers in search of sales bargains , though this is not widely thought to herald the end of the recession . |
| 3 | The ceremonies and festivities attending the coronation of French kings at Reims did much to enhance the popularity and reputation of the wines of Champagne — though they can not entirely have pleased the populace of Reims , who had to meet the expense of such occasions . |
| 4 | They are soon disabused by their fellow students , and in ways which are not necessarily calculated to soothe the individual 's amour propre . |
| 5 | In the war , the Party had , in fact , to take on a number of new tasks , some of them important in the context of social welfare and organization , though not necessarily guaranteed to increase the popularity of the local functionaries . |
| 6 | It should perhaps be added that the amended section 4 would not necessarily have caught the conduct in question , because of its definition in terms of violence which might follow from the defendant 's conduct . |
| 7 | Your proxy does not necessarily have to sign the form himself or herself . |
| 8 | I have I have read it elsewhere and not necessarily having read the doc the whole of the document of the Leeds U D P but on that note , since Leeds leads would you like |
| 9 | To do so , however , the conversion rate had to be given to the pupils in a more convenient form than the number of foreign money units to the pound and pupils did not necessarily learn to apply the arithmetic algorithm to conversions . |
| 10 | This profitability is maintained by a balancing act ; the fundamental chemical industry balance summed up in the fact that if you want to get the utmost out of sodium chloride , you should n't have either sodium or chlorine left over unsold at the end of the day ; not much use increasing the use of one if you ca n't increase use of the other in proportion . |
| 11 | It is not much use improving the number and quality of the prison buildings if the prison management does not also improve . |
| 12 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 13 | But the Indonesian authorities are not only trying to control the rate at which the Timorese breed — they also want to dictate where they live . |
| 14 | In this Egypt not only wished to remove the refugee problem as a political issue , but also to encourage Israel to deny the West Bank to Jordan , Egypt 's enemy over the fate of Palestine . |
| 15 | The outcome of this meeting however , was that the Task Force not only decided to question the research priorities of the ARC , but also their methodology which typically relied upon research contracts awarded to outside firms of consultants to whom : — |
| 16 | Programmed ventricular stimulation not only helps to guide the selection of antiarrhythmic drug therapy but also provides important prognostic information . |
| 17 | With regard to the gradual exploration of historical time , reading not only helps to develop the concept of periods of time and of progression ( if not progress ) , but it also ( through the historical novel ) enables the reader to ‘ feel what it was like ’ . |
| 18 | But when Duncan reminded him of this incident some years later , he " not only denied knowing the ballad but singing it … " |
| 19 | In seeking to solve this second problem of semantic exactitude , he not only fails to solve the problem of making meanings plain to the public but actually makes that problem a good deal more complex . |
| 20 | Now the holder of speculative balances not only has to consider the yield on close substitutes such as bonds , but he also has to take into account any prospective capital gains or losses which may accrue when buying the bond . |
| 21 | When preparing it , the archaeologist not only has to consider the text , but also what illustrations to include . |
| 22 | A boy who deliberately punctures another child 's bicycle tyre not only has to repair the tyre , but also must oil and polish the entire vehicle . |
| 23 | Their ability not only to begin to understand the nature of their alienation but to learn to do something about it is also enhanced by the development of automation . |
| 24 | Although the mechanism of accumulation of the humbled bones presents a puzzle , the discoveries of the latest in a long series of excavations by Spanish workers , reported on page 534 of this issue , seem not only to have settled the question of the affinities of the Atapeuerca hominids , but also promise to clarify our understanding of the evolution of humans in Europe . |
| 25 | It not only dared to enter the domain of philosophy by offering a critique of epistemology but also brought with it the heresy of relativism . |
| 26 | However , even at the same time as this controversy continues the discipline has not only come to recognize the influence of the self , but has urged that we use it as a scientific construction ( Okely 1975a ) . |
| 27 | The problem is not only having to write the report but burdening countless other people with the chore of reading the bloody thing . |
| 28 | Not only walking to do the shopping but walking to work when men would have to get up at 4.0 a.m. with , in some cases , an hour 's walk to get to work . |
| 29 | The sanction imposed is real and effective since it satisfied all three conditions required by Community law ; it is adequate in relation to the damage sustained by the claimant , since the claimant is put in the position in which she would have been had the discriminatory refusal to hire her not occurred , both as concerns the post of employment and the income therefrom ; it has a real deterrent effect on the defendant bank who will not only have to pay the amount of about seven years ' monthly salary , plus interest , but will furthermore find itself with an additional employee ( the claimant and the man hired in her stead ) ; it is the same sanction as the one imposed for any other illegal refusal to hire . |
| 30 | In some cases doctors will not only have to consider the capacity of the patient to refuse treatment , but also whether the refusal has been vitiated because it resulted not from the patient 's will , but from the will of others . |