Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not entirely fair to blame this tendency on sociolinguistic methods alone , since sociolinguists dealing with gender-related variation are only the heirs of a lengthy sexist tradition in the study and lay discussion of male and female speech . |
| 2 | It is becoming more , not less important to provide adequate teaching in schools on personal relationships and on how people should treat one another that goes far beyond straightforward lessons on sex education — important though this is . |
| 3 | At high income levels , the ability to buy child care may make women more , not less likely to have more children as their income rises still further ( Ermisch 1988 ) . |
| 4 | If you stand in front of a mirror and look at yourself and say , okay I 'm just too fat , I 'm going on a diet , and you have sufficient willpower to stick to your diet , you will lose weight , so when you 're talking about behaviour , it 's not so stupid to think that will is associated with the final outcome , because we know that people can will things which have , which have affects on their emotions and their , and their behaviour and their state of mind . |
| 5 | Perhaps I 'm not so keen to have this day end after all . ’ |
| 6 | Now it is not so easy to voice those arguments . |
| 7 | But it is not so easy to find good examples of his suggestion that batterie can lend wit except in the Blue Boy 's révoltades in Ashton 's Les Patineurs . |
| 8 | Not so easy to find these days . |
| 9 | They 're not so strict doing actual work , and those sort of things , I think . |
| 10 | As an alternative assembly procedure , it is not only possible to attach one model to another but also to declare that this model is inserted into the model space of the other . |
| 11 | The delicate textural changes commonly encountered in studies of dissolution fabrics emphasize the importance of effective impregnation of the sediment prior to thin section making ; this is not only essential to identify plucked grains , or grains partially plucked from their matrix as opposed to secondary porosity , but is also necessary for reflected light petrography of grain and cement margins when investigating corrosion fabrics . |
| 12 | I was not only able to review social security , I had the opportunity as a politician of implementing the changes — always provided I could get the support of my colleagues , of course , and that was not going to be easy . |
| 13 | We were not merely ready to welcome strange things when we had walked half a mile up a lane and met no man , but we were in a gracious condition for receiving whatever might fall to us . |
| 14 | There were no fundamental restructuring costs provided for in 1993 or 1992 , and profits and losses on sale of fixed assets ( 1993 £0.2 million profit , 1992 £0.6 million loss ) were not sufficiently material to warrant separate disclosure on the face of the profit and loss account . |
| 15 | Strict conventionalism claims that judges are liberated from legislation and precedent in hard cases because the explicit extension of these legal conventions is not sufficiently dense to decide those cases . |
| 16 | The statistical data is not sufficiently large to enable satisfactory significance tests to be performed . |
| 17 | The market for British films was not sufficiently large to justify mass production of films at budgets high enough to ensure they reached real quality , and executives at Stoll did n't understand the difference between good stories and good cinema . |
| 18 | Two particular issues of which we take account in attempting to refine the simple hypotheses are , first , that any single technology is probably , of itself , not sufficiently important to affect firm performance to any large extent , and second , that potential adopters of new technology differ from each other in various important dimensions and thus the ‘ best ’ adoption date for one firm may differ considerably from the ‘ best ’ adoption date for another firm . |
| 19 | The reader is also informed that it is not normally possible to obtain high resolution on NMR spectra from solid samples . |
| 20 | So , although it is good practice to do so , it is not normally essential to add new module versions to SPRs and SSRs . |
| 21 | Also commanders were not usually eager to fight decisive battles ; and victories were seldom followed up with real energy . |
| 22 | It is , however , not always easy to transmit non-textual files ( e.g. files containing bit-map graphics ) using electronic mail . |
| 23 | It 's not always easy to remember these principles when you are tired , someone has soiled themselves yet again , another person is crying and it 's time to start serving lunch . |
| 24 | It 's not always easy to find compatible crews , so on selected departure dates ( we add extra dates if there 's demand ) couples or singles ( not threes ) may book to share a Moody 31 or Oceanis 320 with five aboard , or a 28ft yacht with four abroad . |
| 25 | It is not always possible to give adequate thought to the future when caught up in the day-to-day running of an operation , but if you live the business , as Sir Hector unashamedly does , there are always less hectic times to mull over major issues . |
| 26 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 27 | Funding being limited , it is not always possible to purchase foreign maps with Scottish associations or simply to fill gaps in the collection . |
| 28 | First , it is not always possible to test rational expectations per se , but only jointly with other , supplementary assumptions . |
| 29 | In science it is not always possible to find one theory which accounts for and describes every aspect of an event . |
| 30 | In some areas , such as social policy , it was not always possible to develop meaningful output measures . |