Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence those who take a floating charge from a company which can not be proved to be solvent , and which does not survive for a further year , can not thereby obtain protection in respect to their existing debts , but only to the extent that they provide the company with new value and thus increase the assets available for other creditors . |
| 2 | Determinism in principle does not necessarily imply predictability in practice . |
| 3 | This freedom did not necessarily find expression in forms which were in conflict with the ruling patrician elite . |
| 4 | The exhibition will not only show life in Bentley during the past 150 years , but also that of Froyle , concentrating on the development of both village schools , culminating in their merger in 1986 . |
| 5 | Those candidates exercise their freedoms and I defend those freedoms — If the freedoms which Conservative Members say they want to uphold were so widespread , they would not only define freedom in terms of the power to own shares in a company but would seek to defend it in terms of being able to get a job in that company , in a country with getting on for 2.5 million unemployed . |
| 6 | I do not merely spend time in Manchester — where I spend more time than anywhere else outside London and my constituency , which is my home town . |
| 7 | Youth ( a comparative term in this context ) and experience do not normally go hand in hand . |
| 8 | Even gentlemen who did not normally display interest in babies sent anxiously to inquire about its progress . |
| 9 | Continuing his tour of crowned heads , Napoleon III went from Stuttgart to Weimar , where he met Franz-Joseph of Austria , but the encounter seems to have been no more than a routine courtesy call between sovereigns and the fact that it did not even take place in Vienna underlined the private nature of the meeting . |
| 10 | As Schwab ( 1964 ) has pointed out , one of the features of Plato 's scheme is that it does not primarily classify knowledge in terms of what it is of or about but in terms of its quality — its degrees of reality . |
| 11 | Similarly , one could not satisfactorily analyse modalism in rock music without also dealing with the decline of modal folk song , in its traditional social contexts ; the urban folk revival ; the use of modal techniques by elite composers , and the ‘ discovery ’ of modal medieval and renaissance music ; the commodification of major-minor tonality by Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood , against which modalism could be seen as ‘ exotic ’ or ‘ primitive ’ ; the internationalization of capital bringing , through American cultural imperialism , the influence of modal Afro-American musics which , at the same time , could be seen as offering a potential for critique vis-à-vis the dominant , major-minor musical language ; and so on . |
| 12 | I got into bed , and I was really nice and warm , and I was lying back , I do n't really like to lie back when I 'm doing something , I like to sit up in bed , I do n't generally do work in bed . |
| 13 | We do n't really understand voodoo in America . |