Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some arranged for consultants to hold clinics on the practice premises , thus improving access for their patients but not necessarily achieving a cost saving . |
| 2 | If workers were spending their time in this way , they were not only exercising a leisure preference but were consuming a non-essential . |
| 3 | Historically the transport business has always been a male dominated area therefore it may have been expected that the drivers would bite hard on their Yorkie bars and throw their hands up in horror at the prospect of not only having a lady boss , but one who had n't even got a driving licence for a Mini let alone a 38-tonne artic . |
| 4 | I am not exactly pushing a supermarket trolley but I make sure I have plenty of apples , bananas and water to keep me going . |
| 5 | But in the Soviet Union itself , on this anniversary of the horror on April 26th , people are not just remembering a five-year-old bungle . |
| 6 | When Ian Paisley calls the Pope ‘ the Antichrist ’ , he is not just picking a choice term of abuse from the Bible , but referring back to what was once the mainstream Protestant and Anglican belief that the papacy does play one of the most important parts in sacred history and the Romans are absolutely mistaken about which . |
| 7 | We 're not just playing a weekend game , but working five or six days a week , so there are bound to be problems of mental fatigue and photographers become stale and burned out . |
| 8 | Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference ; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness . |
| 9 | This is not strictly speaking a realist film and some hold that the artistic embellishment is at odds with Steinbeck 's message . |
| 10 | Henry V and his son employed some whose names can be spotted on muster rolls , not infrequently fulfilling a specialist capacity , especially in the artillery trains . |
| 11 | At the start of the study 70 patients in the control group and 74 in the prompted group were not currently attending a hospital eye clinic . |