Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would expect handling a horse when it is young to affect its friendliness towards people , but we would not necessarily expect handling a horse when it is young to affect its intelligence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is not much use improving the number and quality of the prison buildings if the prison management does not also improve . |
| 4 | Not only does seeing a chair as a three-dimensional object have this character , but so does seeing one line as longer in the Mulier-Lyer illusion ( in which two lines of equal length look unequal when differently slanting lines are drawn at the tips ) despite our knowing that the two lines are really the same length . |
| 5 | But when Duncan reminded him of this incident some years later , he " not only denied knowing the ballad but singing it … " |
| 6 | In the right circumstances , horses can also learn affection for a person — which not only makes training a horse so much easier , but makes riding and working the horse such a pleasure . |
| 7 | Thus " information handling " does not merely cover using the microcomputer to find references to aspects of pollution such as ACID RAIN but to the whole process of learning done in the classroom and the school library . |
| 8 | Understanding what is written or spoken does not merely involve understanding the meaning of individual words plus their syntactic and semantic relationship within a sentence . |
| 9 | This does not normally involve dismantling the disk drive , you just insert in the drive a special disk to which has been added a small amount of a cleaning fluid . |
| 10 | And while England are not even contemplating playing a Test against Zimbabwe in the near future , the Indians have extended a warm hand of friendship . |
| 11 | I 'm sorry to see that although we 've got a large increase in budget , which is of course always very welcome , that we have n't perhaps addressed improving the quality er as much as we might have done , although we 've got a lot more home help hours that may be classed as an improvement , but er there are many other areas where we could perhaps encourage improvement in community care er with a bit of thought . |
| 12 | You need a tonic — but that does n't necessarily mean visiting the doctor ! |
| 13 | I did n't personally think having a piano on the back of a truck was much use either , but it looked good and gave the band somewhere to balance their beer cans . |
| 14 | That does n't just mean using a cash register , giving the correct change and adding up prices , although of course these are important . |
| 15 | It is a big job , it does n't just mean changing the colour of your stock , er , and it 's difficult to think of erm , er , Alan wearing the purple so to say , but erm , I 'm sure he , I went to his consecration in York about two months ago , it was a very moving and er , enjoyable occasion and he 's erm , er , now entered upon that inheritance . |
| 16 | I do n't just mean decentralizing the housing by having it in area offices . |
| 17 | I said I do n't well stop running the tap . |
| 18 | The give-us-our trough back campaign is threatening to organise a protest march every week but Councillor Smith says he wo n't even discuss moving the trough until he receives a full apology from his accusers . |
| 19 | Have n't even started answering the pile I got yesterday . ’ |
| 20 | Well you did n't actually revisit planning the future properly |