Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either staff or other residents may initiate this segregation , and it is usually based on behaviour that is seen as disruptive , so those who are segregated in this way are not necessarily all suffering from dementia . |
| 2 | Blown-up extracts from contemporary Paris newspapers , on panels larger than the works of art on display , suggest that the district 's sudden fame was not so much to do with art or philosophy , but the novel phenomenon of la jeunesse . |
| 3 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |
| 4 | Diatryma seems , after all , to have been a meat-eater , its head reinforced not so much to cut through meat as to cope with the sudden shocks when its bite hit bone . |
| 5 | Wedding guests and others on the way to whatever feast are not so ready to listen to distress in the present tense . |
| 6 | Given this to be so , under the influence of the new analyses ( of poverty and of the youth labour-market ) , it was appreciated that the critical features of the youth question were not only those relating to church attendance , unorganized leisure , absence of esprit de corps and , at the extreme end of the spectrum of anxiety , juvenile delinquency . |
| 7 | That section was repealed and replaced by section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , which applied to all life prisoners and not merely those convicted of murder . |
| 8 | German managers ‘ talk products ’ and manufacturing more than their British colleagues do , and this applies to German managers generally , not just those associated with design and product development . |
| 9 | But it has also illustrated that our future world is not just difficult to predict in practice ; it is also theoretically impossible . |
| 10 | In those days , marriage was mainly a matter of economy and family ; it was not normally possible to marry for love , and indeed the Courts ruled that love and marriage were incompatible . |
| 11 | Tail slightly forked , but fork not always easy to see in flight . |
| 12 | The distinction is not always easy to keep in mind : Lord Denning , Britain 's most experienced judge in defamation cases , published a book in which he criticised a jury in Bristol for acquitting defendants who had been charged with rioting . |
| 13 | These two cases , although subjected to criticism , seem to strengthen copyright protection notwithstanding that the " look and feel " test is not always easy to apply in practice . |
| 14 | This simple distinction is not always easy to apply in practice because hardware equipment often incorporates software and the contractual position of " off-the-shelf " software is far from clear . |
| 15 | It is not always possible to determine at time of intimation whether a carpet will clean satisfactorily or whether it requires to be replaced . |
| 16 | It is not always sufficient to rely on challenge tests only . |
| 17 | My parents moan at me because I am not always willing to go to work . |
| 18 | But the profit-sharing would have to be ‘ informal ’ as nurses are not legally able to enter into practice partnerships . |
| 19 | Though not yet illegal to discriminate on health grounds , there can be no doubt that it is immoral and unethical to do so . ’ |
| 20 | Accordingly , payments made in consideration or in consequence of , or otherwise in connection with , the termination of the holding of an employee 's office or employment , or any change in its functions , may be eligible for relief from income tax up to the first £30,000 , provided such payments are not otherwise chargeable to tax under Schedule E ( see ss148 and 188 TA 1988 ) . |
| 21 | At eight hours after injection , postprandial gall bladder contraction ( ml ) was not significantly different compared with contraction without treatment or with contraction after two weeks of CSOI . |
| 22 | Suddenly , Constance realised that she actually was very tired — but not too tired to notice with pleasure the warm wood panelling , the Turkey-red stair carpet and the clean smell of polish which all added up to an atmosphere of richness and opulence quite foreign to her mother 's sparse house in Northumberland . |
| 23 | So £10,000 is not very much to spend on research . ’ |
| 24 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 25 | We seem to have two kinds of ‘ existenceworthiness ’ : the dewdrop kind , which can be summed up as ‘ likely to come into existence but not very durable ’ ; and the rock kind , which can be summed up as ‘ not very likely to come into existence but likely to last for a long time once there ’ . |