Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Unlike many other coral types , mechanical damage does not necessarily mean death for leather corals . |
| 5 | Determinism in principle does not necessarily imply predictability in practice . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unfortunately genital carriage of group B streptococcus is unstable , so a swab taken during pregnancy does not necessarily predict carriage at delivery . |
| 8 | This abandonment of a Tyneside base by ship owning interests would not necessarily reduce recruitment of merchant seamen from the Tyne . |
| 9 | But the associations only built an extra 14,500 homes in 1991 — not enough to keep pace with demand , according to Coun Dixon . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He must not only distinguish behaviour from ideology , he must also take careful note of just how they are interrelated . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | For such a plan not only allocates land for development but , as a consequence , distributes financial or environment costs and benefits . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Of course they not only reflect ageism in society but help to reinforce it and make it acceptable . |
| 18 | Not only has experience before marriage been less so , also , has experience within marriage . |
| 19 | Greek civilization not only gave rise to philosophy but it also produced , in the fifth century BC , the first real historians . |
| 20 | This chapter looks at how each of the different aspects of this strategy has been employed , not only to free money from welfare for tax cuts but also to gain an appreciation of the extent of the disenfranchisement from an insurance-based welfare that has occurred . |
| 21 | One type of insulating lining has a coating of aluminium on the reverse side which not only provides protection from heat loss in winter but also prevents excessive heat build-up in a room during summer by deflecting the sun 's rays . |
| 22 | They are advised to choose the compulsory modules for an extra field , not only to encourage breadth of study but also to serve as a foundation for a possible change of field in the future . |
| 23 | These and other findings discussed by Johnston and McClelland ( 1980 ) not only provide evidence in favour of their model of visual word-recognition , but also evidence against other types of model . |
| 24 | Once this happens , the medium is said to not only reduce ammonia/nitrite to nitrate , but go one step further and , by means of the anaerobic bugs , convert nitrate to harmless nitrogen gas . |
| 25 | Thus , detailed study of samian pottery and other export goods can not only provide information about trade , but also about the economy of the Roman empire . |
| 26 | Topic does not just control reference within clause boundaries , it controls reference outside clause boundaries as well . |
| 27 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 28 | All participants agree that Debré was the main architect of the constitution , but de Gaulle played an active supervisory role , intervening not just to ensure conformity with Bayeux principles but often to insist on specific wording or specific clauses ( such as the article which gave the president the right to assume full powers in the event of a national emergency ) . |
| 29 | A clause which does not expressly mention conditions will not normally exclude liability for breach of condition . |
| 30 | Youth ( a comparative term in this context ) and experience do not normally go hand in hand . |