Example sentences of "[adv] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the First World War Britain experienced conscription for the first time , and the mobilization not only of the whole work force but also of many women , hitherto not in employment , to assist the war effort . |
| 2 | I lay back , stiff not with fear but with social embarrassment . |
| 3 | ‘ People like you should n't be allowed anywhere near the mountains , and especially not in winter , ’ he said with sudden savagery . |
| 4 | Ben had warned her not to baby the boy , especially not in front of anyone . |
| 5 | Some , perhaps not without malice , averred that Capella was what did for Mars in the first place , god knows how many aeons ago . |
| 6 | It is perhaps not without significance that Wulfhere 's queen was Eormenhild , daughter of Eorcenberht , king of Kent ( 640–4 ) , a marriage probably intended to bring the Mercians more closely into association with the Anglo-Frankish world of the Kentish court at a time when their kingdom was being Christianized under Wulfhere . |
| 7 | Since July 1400 he had been archdeacon of Dorset , absentee but perhaps not without interest . |
| 8 | Although this is both extensive and varied by the standards of most of the human sciences , though perhaps not of history , what it illustrates is the difficulty of specifying what is to count as data beyond saying that it is whatever material that researchers need to work with in order to pursue their inquiries . |
| 9 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 10 | Halema was a black-covered dumpling , delicious and rich , perhaps not in money , but certainly in the joy of life . |
| 11 | The different approaches are thus seen to be distinct , but perhaps not in conflict ; each approach is seen as an area of specialism , rather than as an area of commitment . |
| 12 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 13 | Although functional purpose must impose a certain constraint on the shape and form of an object , that constraint is generally a very loose one for everyday forms ( though obviously not for machine parts ) . |
| 14 | The court was obviously not without compassion , for its judgement was : ‘ to erect some small cottage or Cabin for her in regard to her lothesomenes ’ . |
| 15 | We saw a Civil Defence exercise in Tyne and Wear where local government officials , obviously not in peak condition , rushed about and contemplated what they were going to do about the rain of megatonne weapons that was being dumped on their ratepayers . |
| 16 | Er , and in general we have a , er , panel of the non-executive directors who set the directors ' salary in relation to the other directors I am also on that panel er , but obviously not in relation to my own salary . |
| 17 | Leith was angry enough not to back down . |
| 18 | Her best coat would perhaps have been better because it would make her look as though she had n't let herself go , but on the other hand her frightful old lumber jacket would have suggested , what was true enough , that she was worried enough not to care . |
| 19 | Only not in English . |
| 20 | On the other hand , imagine the embarrassment of calling a full-scale search out for somebody who is not only not in peril , but is mightily cheesed off to be awoken from a deep sleep by an RAF Sea-King helicopter blowing the filling out of their sleeping-bag ? |
| 21 | It is held together not by command and obedience but by influence and what may be called allegiance … |
| 22 | A practical lexicographer , however , would probably draw his line in a different place from ours : he might well argue that phrases such as fish and chips , bread and butter , etc. , while undoubtedly slightly opaque in the technical sense , present few problems of interpretation to speakers familiar with the normal constituent meanings of the parts , and are thus not worth listing . |
| 23 | the tape recording of individual children 's oral performance for assessment purposes might not be part of normal classroom activity and thus not in line with TGAT recommendations . |
| 24 | In consequence , it was submitted , the relevant action was taken not by the society , the report was not required by the society for its own purposes and was thus not in relation to the grant or refusal of an advance , and a report negligently prepared could not constitute maladministration or a breach of the society 's obligations under any contract . |
| 25 | You can see that on busy days it is just not worth fishing there . |
| 26 | ‘ The real question is not the rights and wrongs of the death penalty , because that 's just not worth debating . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister won a strong ovation when she added : ‘ The trouble with Labour is that they 're just not at home with freedom . |
| 28 | It 's just not like home , at home . |
| 29 | Freddie : we 're just not in love any more |
| 30 | FUNNYMAN Freddie Starr hugged his wife Sandie yesterday and said : ‘ I 'm afraid we 're just not in love any more . ’ |