Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To identify a fluttering shadow as the outline of a bird is not so revealing as the recognition that it is actually cast by a butterfly . |
| 2 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 3 | Waves D , C , B and A show progressively greater degrees of retardation , with resulting greater degrees of refraction until wave A is not only breaking against the point but also against the sides of the headland . |
| 4 | Moreover , aspiring members of this new class were not only moving about the country ; they were also moving upward , abandoning grandparents who could not keep up , or did not wish to do so . |
| 5 | These monographs are not only binding in the member countries , but also carry the force of law in the British Commonwealth and in former colonies of France , Spain and Belgium . |
| 6 | Though we may become more irritable and find life 's demands more stressful , loss of sleep is not physically damaging to the body . |
| 7 | I 'm just going for a piss now I 'm not fucking going to the toilet . |
| 8 | I 'm not just referring to the kind that Pinder indulged in , but trips to the bathroom , that sort of thing . |
| 9 | if they ever do discover who was responsible , and it 's not without the bounds of possibility , it 's going to cause an awful lot of red faces and I 'm not just referring to the villain himself . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's only really the chap on the ground who gets to know what 's going on , gets chatting — and not just chatting with the management of the firm — chatting with the chap that runs the pretreatment plant , y'know , having a cup of tea with him and generally getting to know the individuals and the characters . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're not just shivering from the cold . |
| 12 | It 's a problem which applies to all young photographers apparently , not just operating in the music field . |
| 13 | With this assumption his principle followed fairly simply , and later physicists — William Thomson and Rudolf Clausius — had problems in incorporating Carnot 's law into the new theory , where heat was motion of particles and was actually being converted into mechanical work and not just flowing through the engine . |
| 14 | Managing Director of Rockcliffe , Graham Campbell said , ’ We are not just going with the trend , we are about to overtake it . ’ |
| 15 | Right , but presumably if that , that work 's not just going by the board that 's , that 's right |
| 16 | It is important here to stress that it is not just hitting to the target that is foremost , but at all times moving the feet to take the ball in one bounce . |
| 17 | ‘ At least I will be using my skills while I 'm abroad , not just bumming round the world for a year ! ’ |
| 18 | Margaret Thatcher was one of the greatest supporters of a classless society , not just I 'm not just talking about the silver spoon in one 's mouth , it 's the sometimes the stainless steel spoons of the middle class that erm that is a lot of the trouble , and no-one took on the establishments of the professional bodies erm and who have been over the years had a great deal of privilege in this country more than Margaret Thatcher . |
| 19 | When we talk of an increase in bank lending leading to monetary expansion , however , we are not normally talking about the behaviour of an individual bank but about banks as a whole . |
| 20 | Though that did not mean that , in his bubble chamber , Akbar was not still writhing in the agony of pseudo-injury — terrible burns and blindness — as he struggled to master such huge referred pain . |
| 21 | In other words , they were not directly listening for the sound /t/ in the speech as it came in , but rather determining that a word contains a /t/ after actually identifying the word . |
| 22 | ‘ But not always looking for the artist , ’ she said . |
| 23 | Although not strictly speaking within the scope of this book , since it is an entirely artificial substance , enamel needs to be mentioned if only because it served as an alternative to natural stones in enriching jewellery and other symbolic objects . |
| 24 | ‘ British Gas will ensure as far as reasonably practicable that the goods and services which it procures are not inherently damaging to the environment during their use or disposal . |
| 25 | Where forecasts are not legally binding on the buyer , another commonly used alternative is for the buyer to agree to compensate the seller ( up to some agreed limits ) for excess inventory of the products covered by the agreement which are still in the seller 's hands on termination of the agreement , but which he can not reasonably dispose of elsewhere . |
| 26 | But when you think of er It 's not really referring to the beauty of the world . |
| 27 | In truth the Sergeant was not really listening to the Lieutenant 's enthusiastic explanation ; instead he was partly anticipating the Belgian girls and partly worrying when this headlong advance would run into the enemy picquets . |
| 28 | Publishers frequently cite this as a reason for not really getting behind the sale , and putting better titles into it . |
| 29 | So we are not really talking about the survival of the earth , we are talking about the survival of the sort of earth we want . |
| 30 | So you 're not really concentrating on the television , because you do n't have to . |