Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Stanley Baldwin was sent to Hawtrey 's , near Slough , which was almost exclusively an Eton preparatory school , although there followed a not wholly explained change of plan and he went to Harrow in 1881 . |
| 2 | However , there are clear baseline differences in disease severity between groups and the analysis did not properly address differences in response between treatments . |
| 3 | But he wants the military to test the anti- nerve gas pills to make sure that they 're not addictive , so that they 're not inadvertantly giving soldiers under stress a potent drug which could be open to abuse . |
| 4 | Hence those who take a floating charge from a company which can not be proved to be solvent , and which does not survive for a further year , can not thereby obtain protection in respect to their existing debts , but only to the extent that they provide the company with new value and thus increase the assets available for other creditors . |
| 5 | The section is intended to give the police power to impose conditions on ‘ coercive ’ marches which will not necessarily give rise to disorder ; a National Front march through a predominantly Asian district may well prompt many of the citizens simply to board up their properties and remain indoors . |
| 6 | Unlike many other coral types , mechanical damage does not necessarily mean death for leather corals . |
| 7 | This implies that variations in CL intensity need not necessarily reflect changes in bulk pore fluid composition . |
| 8 | Even an ideal concept of income or consumption does not necessarily represent differences in opportunity sets ; and when we allow for the deviation of observable income , or consumption , from the ideal measure , the problems become still more severe . |
| 9 | Determinism in principle does not necessarily imply predictability in practice . |
| 10 | But service with Mr Deng in Taihang does not necessarily provide protection from purge ; it did not help Zhao Ziyang , the former prime minister and party leader . |
| 11 | Unfortunately genital carriage of group B streptococcus is unstable , so a swab taken during pregnancy does not necessarily predict carriage at delivery . |
| 12 | This abandonment of a Tyneside base by ship owning interests would not necessarily reduce recruitment of merchant seamen from the Tyne . |
| 13 | But the associations only built an extra 14,500 homes in 1991 — not enough to keep pace with demand , according to Coun Dixon . |
| 14 | She describes the context of the child care service , the preventive services and what happens when they are not enough to maintain children at home . |
| 15 | It is not enough to remove barriers to success . |
| 16 | Essentially what all are saying is that a right to consent to medical treatment , whether required under the common law ( see Gillick 's case ) or under statute ( section 8 ) , must and does carry with it a right not only to refuse consent to treatment , but to refuse the treatment itself . |
| 17 | One of the most common experiments of this kind is making and firing of pottery , which not only tests methods of pottery construction , decoration , glazing , and firing methods , but also leaves the remains of the kiln itself which can be compared with excavated examples . |
| 18 | He must not only distinguish behaviour from ideology , he must also take careful note of just how they are interrelated . |
| 19 | Talks on privatising Deutsche Bundespost Telekom have entered a critical phase , with a key decision due next month , Germany 's postal and telecommunications minister Wolfgang Bosch told Reuter at Hannover on Friday : ‘ In a few weeks we will know whether or not there will be a change to the constitution , ’ he said , noting that decision will not only affect privatisation of Telekom but also Bonn 's position at the upcoming talks with the European Commission — an agreement on privatisation would pave the way for Bonn to approve the Community plan to open domestic and international telephone calls to competition ; the current strategy to get agreement from Germany 's opposition socialists is to win over the postal union , which so far rejects turning Telekom into a joint stock company for fear of massive job losses . |
| 20 | For such a plan not only allocates land for development but , as a consequence , distributes financial or environment costs and benefits . |
| 21 | By raising the question of the Holy Places the French President not only gained ground at home but also set in train a long-term policy . |
| 22 | To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later . |
| 23 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |
| 24 | Of course they not only reflect ageism in society but help to reinforce it and make it acceptable . |
| 25 | His leadership characteristics include ingenuity and determination not only to unearth agents of change , but to see that they are profitably applied : he took robotic ideas from Austin Rover into food manufacturing . |
| 26 | Hence variations in mortality not only indicate variations in morbidity but also variations in the great need for services in caring for those with conditions with a high number of deaths . |
| 27 | These forces not only exclude women from unemployment statistics but also from ‘ legitimate ’ experiences of unemployment . |
| 28 | Railway and port facilities will be needed and higher levels of mine mechanization if coal production is to achieve levels which not only supply 70% of energy demand but afford an opportunity for exports . |
| 29 | Lambeth Council in London banned a book , Midnight Circus , on the grounds that ‘ most carers ’ disapprove of circuses , and the presentation of an ape as the baddie not only raises issues of animal rights but has racial overtones — even though it turns out that the ape is really a white woman in disguise . |
| 30 | Since that time , not only have views of education and educational research changed , but so have views of science . |