Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [verb] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not necessarily essential to design knowledge representation formalisms into which the input text must be translated and subsequently acted upon . |
| 2 | The temptation for rural labourer poets is not so much to write prospect poems , as to treat their own labour in terms of the pastoral . |
| 3 | However , a Class 1 transaction is not sufficiently important to require shareholder approval . |
| 4 | Substances like Nylon have plenty of strength but they are not sufficiently stiff to make engineering structures . |
| 5 | : Due to constraints on the availability of data pads it was not always possible to obtain test data from the original source . |
| 6 | The experience of the EC with member state aids to attract foreign direct investment should serve as a warning that EC rules are not always sufficient to prevent member states from taking unilateral steps to improve their national economies at the expense of others . |
| 7 | People who are aroused persistently by career goals ( high achievers in the organizational sense ) are not as likely to play team sports , where stress and uncertainty are shared ; they prefer golf , running , swimming or squash . |
| 8 | It is not particularly difficult to get rose cuttings to sprout roots , and to suggest that that is all one needs to do to raise new plants of any and all roses is to mislead by disregarding why all the trouble is taken to propagate H.T.s , Floribundas and many more by budding and , less often , by grafting . |
| 9 | It was not even necessary to remove hir underwear before Alix started yelling . |
| 10 | By the late 1930s , the position had improved somewhat , but unemployment soared again during the first two years of the Second World War , when about a quarter of the membership found itself unemployed.29 For these single women in their 40s and 50s , it was not immediately easy to find war work , for instance in munitions factories , nor were they necessarily eager to do so . |
| 11 | Decisions on the administration of Korea had to be reached swiftly and the United States would be dependent on Soviet goodwill at first , since American forces were not immediately available to occupy south Korea . |
| 12 | It is not very easy to arrange ventilation schemes when the designer has forgotten to do so and often the best that could be done was to arrange to leave the inspection doors open when on the ground . |
| 13 | But the farm would be much more profitable if the British were n't so reluctant to eat goat meat . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm surprised she is n't too busy delivering milk bottles in the sky . ’ |