Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 5 ) In respect of any orders for payment of standard basis costs by the plaintiffs to the defendants that have already been made it is , as we understand it , common ground that the court was not thereby purporting to deprive the defendants of any costs which they were contractually entitled to add to their security . |
| 2 | In posing these questions I am not necessarily wanting to provide the answers , and it may be that there are no simple answers to some of these questions . |
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| 4 | But the Indonesian authorities are not only trying to control the rate at which the Timorese breed — they also want to dictate where they live . |
| 5 | The problem is not only having to write the report but burdening countless other people with the chore of reading the bloody thing . |
| 6 | Not only walking to do the shopping but walking to work when men would have to get up at 4.0 a.m. with , in some cases , an hour 's walk to get to work . |
| 7 | I am not merely trying to preserve the tradition of my country . |
| 8 | I am not just trying to extol the virtues of a well-managed filtration system , nor should I need to , but this is an actual necessity to maintain Siamese Tigers at their best . |
| 9 | But it is not just trying to get the recipient to learn the ad by rote : it is , surely , trying to give information — persuasive information — about the product , so that the consumer will prefer it to its competitors and buy it . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm not just trying to make the final . |
| 11 | ‘ I hope this Tory government 's change of heart is genuine and that they are not just trying to pass the buck . |
| 12 | They are not normally going to bite the hand that feeds them . |
| 13 | With the best will in the world , the library is not always going to have the book on its shelves that the student is after ; and nor are members of staff always going to be available to answer students ' enquiries . |
| 14 | In October 1984 , The Economist , remarkably enough , committed itself to the view that ‘ Mrs Thatcher is not now going to win the miners ’ strike outright . ’ |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the longer you look , the more the qualities and character of the tomb become apparent and the clearer it is that the architect was not simply trying to imitate the Taj and failing . |
| 16 | ‘ My mother sends you her — her regards , ’ she muttered , for some reason not even wanting to say the word ‘ love ’ . |
| 17 | And now you 're not even going to get the chance to stay overnight . ’ |
| 18 | Here the paraphrase would be " how he longed to see this sunlight once before he died ! " , but the fact remains that the person designated by he in this example is felt as not yet having attained the realization of " seeing the sunlight once more " , i.e. as being before this event in time . |
| 19 | I also remember thinking at the time that dressing like a white man and taking a white man 's name was n't ever going to hide the Apache in him . |
| 20 | We were n't also having to create the idea and the reason for the band 's existence . |