Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the provision of services by a branch does not clearly fall within either of these principles , because the services are provided from the host member state itself , and accordingly either alternative seems available . |
| 2 | However , many claim that they are typical of others , while a case-study does not usually make this claim . |
| 3 | However , the genes brought in by a plasmid do not usually become a permanent part of the bacterium 's own chromosome . |
| 4 | A creditor does not generally expect P Notes to flood in by mail . |
| 5 | Being a skin did not normally imply a break with your family . |
| 6 | In order to prove himself as an aggro leader , a fan has not only to prove his ability to lead charges but also the fact that he really means what he is doing . |
| 7 | A manor did not necessarily cover the same area as a parish ; indeed , parishes sometimes contained two or more manors and the boundaries between the two institutions often overlapped . |
| 8 | As child-care is easily available and children are integrated into daily life having a child does not automatically exclude a woman from her previous lifestyle as is so often the case in Britain . |
| 9 | A monster eating a child does not just gnaw its head , but holds its wrists to stop it wriggling . |
| 10 | But the sexual exploitation of a child does not only take the form of vaginal penetration by the penis . |
| 11 | The physical ownership of a work does not automatically include ownership of copyright . |
| 12 | The reason why it is difficult in English to obtain direct evidence for the involvement of a superficial representation in the interpretation of definite pronouns ( the most common kind of deep anaphor ) is that the form of a pronoun does not usually depend on how its antecedent was ( or might be ) described . |
| 13 | In 1989 the government banned exports of unprocessed timber , as Indonesia had done in 1985 [ see p. 36794 ] , a move designed not only to slow logging but also to encourage the development of the Vietnamese wood processing industry . |
| 14 | Such a limitation has not obviously affected the evolutionary ‘ success ’ of this type of body pattern , as witnessed by the vast number of species of insects and crustacea alive and flourishing today — but it certainly affects the extent of their behavioural repertoire . |
| 15 | Belonging to a group does not inevitably produce hatred of others . |
| 16 | Enforcement of the provisions of the Directive , when adopted , will be the responsibility of the relevant supervisory authority , which must be created in the member states where such a body does not already exist . |
| 17 | Customers thinking about buying a product do not always give a clear indication about what they require . |
| 18 | The arrival of a railway in a town did not always lead to expansion . |
| 19 | Under matrimonial law , moreover , by consenting to marriage , a wife does not impliedly consent to have sexual intercourse with her husband whenever he pleases . |
| 20 | In a common law country , the preparation of a case for trial is the private responsibility of the parties , and so the taking of evidence , without compulsion , by a consul or a commissioner does not necessarily offend such a country 's concept of judicial sovereignty ; but the position may be very different where , as in many civil law countries the obtaining of evidence is part of the judicial function , and official permission is be required before the evidence can be taken privately . |
| 21 | Twenty-four hours have indeed passed , but the end of a day does not necessarily mean sleep . |
| 22 | The shape and musculature of a dolphin do not alone account for its speed and swimming efficiency , and biologists have long been searching for features of the skin which may explain the mysteries of the dolphin 's swimming prowess . |
| 23 | Saying that Germany as a whole has not yet bottomed out of recession and that recovery could come in 1994 at the earliest , the management board chairman of IBM Deutschland GmbH said that the government 's solidarity pact to help recovery in the depressed east of Germany had been over-valued — ‘ The pact received praise I do n't think it deserved ’ Hans-Olaf Henkel said . |
| 24 | Consequently , the registration of a vessel does not necessarily involve establishment within the meaning of the E.E.C . |
| 25 | Since the masked word could not be identified this semantic priming effect calls into question the usual explanations of masking ( Turvey , 1973 ) and suggests instead that a mask does not necessarily interrupt visual processing but prevents the appearance of a word " in consciousness . |
| 26 | It is perhaps worth making the point ( for readers who are just beginning their enquiries into the history of this period ) that a lord did not usually own all the land on his manor but had certain defined rights , which differed from place to place and even between neighbouring settlements . |
| 27 | But , of course , writing something into a constitution does not necessarily mean that it will be honoured in practice . |
| 28 | Such a definition does not only include those Christians who construe their belief in orthodox terms ; who proclaim of Christ ( following the definition of the Council of Chalcedon ) that he was fully God and fully human , these two natures existing in one person . |
| 29 | Such a belief did not necessarily entail an uncritical acceptance of everything James II had done as King . |
| 30 | But adjectival modification of a noun does not always result in sub-classification ( cf ‘ stone lion ’ ) . |