Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inclusion of the former originated less from public concern over any alleged malpractice than from lack of confidence , felt mainly but not wholly within the legal profession , in procedures whereby ultimate responsibility for prosecuting as well as investigating in the vast majority of cases rested with the police . |
| 2 | Although he suggests he is not wholly against the permissive society , all that he can find to say in its favour is that it points to the continual necessity to make traditional values relevant to contemporary society , to the fact that the importance of the family , ‘ the very principles of order itself … are not … accepted by all ’ . |
| 3 | Was I not right about the wee lass , saints preserve her ! |
| 4 | Arpeggios sound best when placed in the middle and upper reaches of the instrument ( but not right at the very top ) . |
| 5 | DEPOSITED ABROAD Choosing a suitable foreign currency bank account may mean shopping around , not necessarily for the highest interest rates but for the best service available |
| 6 | All these questions relate to a captain 's last Test as captain , not necessarily to the last Test in which he played . |
| 7 | Sometimes portraits of mature adults were used for children and adolescents , not necessarily of the same sex as the intended subject . |
| 8 | The stretcher across the back of the chair will similarly have angled shoulders , but not necessarily at the same angle as the seat rail , as the back legs may taper away towards the bottom ; indeed they generally do . |
| 9 | If there is still a sizeable shortage , then further assistance is given , though not necessarily at the same rates and maturities as earlier . |
| 10 | All three are caught from the same swims , although not necessarily at the same time , and in every case there are two-tone specimens . |
| 11 | When you have finished your interviews you should leave yourself time , not necessarily on the same day , to make an unhurried and carefully considered decision . |
| 12 | Remote or unusual keys are still featured only at extraordinary moments , but , apart from B minor , not necessarily with the same associations as before . |
| 13 | Again , if I call my mother and her sister by the same term ( 'mother' ) , then both behave maternally towards me — though not necessarily with the same intensity of feeling . |
| 14 | Generally the people with the heaviest credit commitments do have more than one credit agreement ( not necessarily with the same firm ) going at the same time . |
| 15 | Buying a soon-to-be-obsolete car can be a saving in the short term , but not necessarily in the long term . |
| 16 | This situation went against the grain , as the top brass always needed to be on top of every situation and on top of every executive if they were to do their jobs to their own satisfaction ; not necessarily in the best interests of the Corporation , that is to say , but in their own best interests . |
| 17 | Those simian , orange-furred Jokaero were forever improvising ingenious equipment , not necessarily in the same way twice , though with an accent on miniaturization . |
| 18 | The expression of synaptic potentiation probably involves both pre- and postsynaptic mechanisms , not necessarily in the same proportion at each stage , the one leading to an increase in transmitter release and the other to an increase in the number or change in the properties of the ion channels which mediate synaptic transmission . |
| 19 | It is hard to resolve this trade-off a priori , but one possibility is to allow all firms to participate in a co-operative project , but not necessarily in the same project , using competition between co-operative R&D projects to inhibit the generation of some of the negative externalities discussed above . |
| 20 | One of the activities ( you do n't know which ) is then described again , not necessarily in the same words . |
| 21 | It not only imposes a duty to pay , but also sets up ( not necessarily in the same statute ) the machinery for collecting and distributing the money . |
| 22 | These refer to victims of road accidents occurring throughout Lothian and not necessarily in the eligible areas themselves . |
| 23 | In adopting this approach , Manne ignores the fact that much financial regulation including insider dealing has been sponsored by liberal groups , and not necessarily by the regulatory bodies . |
| 24 | Too much attention had been given to the short-term goals of profitability and not enough to the long-term effects on the environment of industrial waste , chemical spillage and oil and petrol pollution . |
| 25 | But that was not enough for the new Chancellor , Denis Healey . |
| 26 | But that is not enough for the Gay Liberationists . |
| 27 | One book is not enough for the inexhaustible Terry , so we also have a new juvenile title from him , Johnny and the Dead ( £9.99 ) . |
| 28 | on authenticity and not enough on the sheer fantasy of the story . |
| 29 | Erm the pressures in the E C at the moment , I think , would be better handled if as nations come , en democratically , economically , erm they come into the E C , not perhaps at the right time for those that are inside , because that might be too late frankly , but but they 're not pushed into the E C en bloc , too early . |
| 30 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |