Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this time the poor are losing — the notion of " scrounger " has been mobilised as a new scourge against them , not only successfully legitimating the dole as the lowest of low benefits , but also its actual reduction ( through the abolition of earnings-related benefit in 1981 ) and the enforced dependence on the means-tested supplementary benefit . |
| 2 | Caring for babies or smaller children can be physically taxing and occasionally irritating but it is not as emotionally demanding a job as protecting and nurturing an adolescent . |
| 3 | A property which was neither helping — as a qualifier forming part of the same noun phrase — to identify that entity , nor ascribable to any entity within the sentence , and which was not simply adverbially qualifying the verb , would have no convincing reason for appearing in the sentence at all . |
| 4 | He was not here primarily teaching the need for simplicity and trust , though this is within the range of permissible interpretations according to Kraft 's ‘ tether model ’ . |
| 5 | And the fact of George Carey 's criticism of massive pay rises to top bosses , and his sermon on the social responsibilities of wealth creation , is of concern to those bosses and wealth ‘ creators ’ because remarks that would have been unexceptional from other quarters came from the head of the established church — a case of the upstart vicar from Barking not yet fully appreciating the nature of his role within the establishment to which he has only recently secured entry . |