Example sentences of "[prep] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " … appreciated what you have said about not really meaning to offend anybody , I just ca n't square this version of accounts with that of your workmates , Steve , who insist , I 'm afraid , that you seemed quite serious about back-filling the canal with the tarmac allocated for laying on Colebrook … ah … |
| 2 | A short way out of Pau on the opposite side to Lescar , to the north-east , is Morlaas , a small town that tends to get left out of the local guidebooks as not somehow belonging to the Pyrenees . |
| 3 | To what I suppose would happen possibly about eighty percent of the time , where you 're working , you 've worked yourself off to do a superb drawing of a house all day , and er , the branch manager or whoever it may be , is walking round passing quotes , and walks off not really showing any general interest in this superb picture I 've just spent all my time doing . |
| 4 | There 's no hope for a breathing space for the business community as far as Mr Humber is concerned : ‘ We will continue to campaign for the registers to include all sources of contamination , ’ he says grimly , ‘ and we will campaign for not just land liable to be contaminated to be included on the register , but then for that to be backed up by actual investigation of those sites and for that to be put on the registers as well . ’ |
| 5 | Thames Valley Police were criticised for not effectively alerting ports and airports to watch for him . |
| 6 | And back we come to poor old Katie Mallett , who seems to be getting a lot of airtime for not even entering . |
| 7 | " There 's no excuse for not even thinking about your shot when you 're waiting to hit to a green . " |
| 8 | Quite clearly the reason that people have been asked to come along this evening and have come along this evening is to put there points of view about how the see the theatre in the future what is programme facilities are the things that are n't happening here they feel should be happening here that 's what it 's for not here to serve any purpose for individuals to get up and make personal cuts on people or say what happen on a Saturday morning or a Thursday afternoon cos I |
| 9 | Valerie Jones of London ( Letters NI 198 ) criticizes you for not wholeheartedly supporting Sendero Luminoso ( A shining path of blood ) in Peru , while I was thinking that you were not sufficiently unequivocal in your condemnation of Sendero Luminoso . |
| 10 | Bent spindles would be a fairly good excuse for not completely stripping some of these units but Ted 's single-minded attention to detail made sure that everything ended up with its proper film of necessary preservative . |
| 11 | He believed it to work in scenes rather than in its entirety , and in a lecture some years later he criticized himself for not properly developing the action and for failing to adapt the classical theme to a contemporary situation . |
| 12 | John Major seems to sympathise , but the voters can be excused for not yet noticing . |
| 13 | But if somebody said to me shop , alright you do n't flare up face you flare up with them for not fucking apologising . |
| 14 | For not immediately obeying him , or for her very presence ? she wondered briefly , then gave a mental shrug . |
| 15 | Or do they criticize you for not really knowing where you 're going ? |
| 16 | Publishers frequently cite this as a reason for not really getting behind the sale , and putting better titles into it . |
| 17 | He is , however , critical of the regulationist approach , at least as applied by Dunford and Perrons , for not really incorporating uneven development as part of their explanation . |
| 18 | Such an order should usually be made , unless there are positive reasons for not so doing , such as the defendant 's own conduct in bringing suspicion on himself or herself or in misleading the prosecution , or where there is ample evidence supporting a conviction , but the defendant is acquitted on a technicality . |
| 19 | The report , originally due for publication later in the spring , criticises the Department of Transport for not fully applying lessons from previous , less serious collisions on the river . |
| 20 | The United States had not subscribed to the convention , which had been criticized by US conservative groups for not explicitly protecting the rights of the unborn child . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Glasgow , Maryhill ( Mrs. Fyfe ) criticised the Government for not slavishly following the advice given by consultants . |
| 22 | Bosch should be congratulated for not only providing a clear LED charge light , but also for giving precise instructions on the disposal of these potentially harmful batteries ( Now recycled by Bosch ) . |
| 23 | For him to demand repeated empirical evidence at that stage was doubly unnecessary , for not only had he heard the words of Christ , he had listened to the eye-witness accounts of his fellow disciples . |
| 24 | ‘ Bet Rachel 's ‘ avin ’ a good laugh , ’ he muttered wryly to himself for not only had he volunteered for fire-watching duties , but he had also volunteered the services of Dobbs and the cart since there was news of petrol rationing . |
| 25 | UEFA 's appeals committee have a reputation for not only upholding decisions of the disciplinary committee , but in some cases increasing the punishment . |
| 26 | Freddie did not manage to keep us in the Cup against the powerful Rangers outfit but , usually playing at centre-forward , he steadily repaid that fee several times over during the first five post-war seasons , for not only has his tally of 48 League goals only been exceeded by six players here at The Palace since then , but his goals were scored in struggling Palace teams , which only once finished in the upper half of the League table . |
| 27 | However , the exercise highlighted the value of the Procedure Audit approach for not only identifying procedural flaws , but also for encouraging the commitment of staff to making improvements effective . |
| 28 | However , before racing ceases to be a single-parent sport , the Jockey Club deserves full credit for not only having forged ahead with the Sunday fixtures but also firing the well-aimed salvos that finally got through to the Government the iniquities of the level of VAT being charged on the breeding , rearing and racing of bloodstock in this country compared with France and Ireland . |
| 29 | Suckling at the breast provides a stimulus for the pituitary gland to release prolactin that may have an effect ( through not fully clarified ways ) on ovulation and amenorrhoea . |
| 30 | They include both operatives and staff specialists such as engineers in the same circle , oriented towards not only reducing the wastage rate but also making technological and process improvements . |