Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But customers , too , have only recently begun to see the big picture : IBM is not just going through a bad patch , it is in serious , perhaps critical , trouble . |
| 2 | Not just talking through a positive side . |
| 3 | and actually she 's excellent and I like her not like working for a female boss good people er |
| 4 | I E you 're not really looking at a feudal economy in the south any more i it may be a much more heavily commercial capitalist economy and therefore the kind of land reform programme that you might incorporate from a feudal north might not be entirely relevant . |
| 5 | But if one is not fundamentalist ( and not simply working as a literary critic ) then there are questions which need to be brought to the text . |
| 6 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 7 | The school librarian or teacher is not therefore dealing with a traditional cataloguing and indexing task whereby one system is adhered to within the information retrieval system , as in a card catalogue . |