Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their professional achievements are so interwoven that one can not properly unravel the individual strands which make up the whole . |
| 2 | We do not all have the same ministries . |
| 3 | Although one might suppose that the creation of a new party offers attractive opportunities for people previously excluded from local élites to establish themselves as leaders , it is often the case that such people do not obviously possess the right qualities . |
| 4 | This will not necessarily affect the annual charges on property where the trustees are resident outside the United Kingdom under paragraph 12 ( 2 ) of Schedule 5 . |
| 5 | This will not necessarily stop the Not-OK feelings but it at least contains them so that they do n't damage the transaction . |
| 6 | We would argue that this does not give a clear explanation of the decision because the judgment is an after-the-event rationalization of the decision and does not necessarily give the real reasons for it . |
| 7 | So the bureaucracy at this level will not necessarily fulfil the economic interests of its masters in any simple way . |
| 8 | Now , the emphasis is on pay agreements that will meet the specific needs of the civil service and of the executive agencies throughout the country , rather than on maintaining an unnecessarily rigid or uniform structure — a structure which did not necessarily produce the best results in the past . |
| 9 | Even species from the same group do not necessarily have the same preferences , hence the need to initially supply a choice of breeding site until you can determine what type and angle of surface they prefer . |
| 10 | All this may bring stability to Albania , but it will not necessarily encourage the ruling Democrats to become more democratic . |
| 11 | Applicants do not necessarily know the relative lengths of queues or their chances of obtaining housing in one sub-district rather than another . |
| 12 | Their goal was not necessarily to keep the resulting ORS hypotonic . |
| 13 | The assignment of these categories need not necessarily follow the grammatical assignments ( e.g. , the object case need not be the syntactic object ) . |
| 14 | By then , such gestures were not enough to placate the civil rights supporters who decided to go ahead with a proposed march through Armagh City on 30 November . |
| 15 | This implies a degree of bone destruction great enough to destroy the weaker elements but not enough to destroy the stronger ones . |
| 16 | ‘ We have some drugs , but not enough to help the critical cases . |
| 17 | An aesthetically satisfactory answer to the need to insert additional windows to light the new lower-level accommodation was found by not only siting the new openings in the same vertical alignment as the original triparite lights , but also by aiming to reproduce the general appearance of the existing windows . |
| 18 | As leader of the militant Ulster Unionists he not only voiced the six counties ' wish to remain under the King and the Parliament at Westminster , but organised a large force of Ulster Volunteers , for whom arms were landed in 1913 . |
| 19 | They do not only meet the minimum standards laid down by the English Tourist Board but the even higher standards set by the Brighton and Hove Accommodation Standards Joint Committee ( see the Tourist Charter information on page ii ) . |
| 20 | The white boys impute an imaginary position of advantage to blacks , which allows them not only to deny the actual conditions of black oppression , but to claim them as their own , in order to justify exclusionary practices which keep blacks ‘ one down ’ and themselves ‘ one up ’ . |
| 21 | Perhaps only the Transylvanian Valentin Bakfark ( Greff ) ( 1507–76 ) , lutenist at the Polish court , who not only made the customary transcriptions but composed ten extended fantasias packed with imitative polyphony , can be ranked with Francisco de Milano , Gintzler , and the Spaniards . |
| 22 | The United States government has the power , not only to compel the European governments to make peace , but also to reassure the populations by making itself the guarantor of the peace . |
| 23 | My world of science is so much richer than theirs , because I not only know the systematic names , but I am also fluent in the trivial ones , the scientific nicknames which allow us to chat about science over coffee . |
| 24 | This has not only exposed the underlying differences between Likud and Labour which the initiative papered over . |
| 25 | However , the structure of attitudes does not only comprise the explicit justifications and criticisms which might be advanced by the attitude-holder . |
| 26 | The relationship between the two is unlikely to be one-for-one , not least because lenders themselves will be wary of the impact on house prices from further sales of repossessed dwellings ; lower house prices not only increase the potential losses to lenders of selling repossessed dwellings but also increase the likelihood of further mortgage default . |
| 27 | I saw that you must not only address the real needs of people but need to be genuinely open to new approaches and styles of work if you are ever going to make the rhetoric of involving communities in the planning and assessment of programmes a reality , or ensure active participation in health sector organizations . |
| 28 | With the change of the international trends , not only have the gloomy prospects of the Korean people become bright , but also General Hodge 's policy to South Korea will be changed in accordance with the policy of his country . |
| 29 | Since 1974 not only have the absolute numbers being sent to prison increased but the courts have become more punitive in the sense that they are sending a higher proportion of those convicted to prison . |
| 30 | Not only have the total numbers and percentage of the population increased , but within this group the economically disadvantaged figure prominently . |