Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence current management has an incentive to suggest that information they have ( presumably private to them or not previously sufficiently appreciated ) suggests a rosy future under the present regime . |
| 2 | Parents may be too busy to attend to them or not fast enough in their reactions and understanding of what is required and so the child tantrums in desperation and anger . |
| 3 | So what we 're going to do is to trail our coats in a variety of sessions , to suggest a variety of things to you , and see whether you agree with them or not so please feel free to come in as and when appropriate and see what you think . |
| 4 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 5 | It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ . |
| 6 | Is he aware that one head teacher recently told me that not only do they have to teach in unsavoury conditions , but they are now having to teach in unsafe conditions ? |
| 7 | I 'm sorry I told ya and not only that I bought that camera the other week did n't I ? |
| 8 | Septimus was younger than me and not very big and he could scarcely carry this big lovely dolly . |
| 9 | If Soviet economic relations with her East European clients have become a ‘ net liability ’ to the USSR in any meaningful sense , this must mean that , on balance the USSR would be better off without them and not simply that they involve a net expenditure . |
| 10 | And different languages have words that are exclusive to them and not readily translatable : the Greek word hubris for instance , meaning god-challenging , excessive pride ( a sense of super-status — back to the Guinness defendants again ) , or the Welsh word hiraeth , meaning a poignant longing for the homeland . |
| 11 | We therefore felt it appropriate , in our discussions with the lenders , to negotiate a contribution from lenders , so that the increased costs would be met at least in part by them and not entirely by the Government . |
| 12 | The only scope for progress was to find harder abrasives , devise more effective tools for applying them and not least to be prepared to invest more time , something which depended on more powerful patronage . |
| 13 | I just , I talk to , often to some of them and not enough to others . |
| 14 | ‘ For those who think that this is window dressing , I pause to remind you that not so long ago the Lord Chancellor was himself the subject of judicial review proceedings , ’ he added . |
| 15 | Ahi sā means , therefore , loving those who hate you and not simply those who love you . |
| 16 | Put smaller amounts into any specialist funds which appeal to you but not too much in total and plot their performances . |
| 17 | erm and that presumably in , in part is because there is this radical groundswell from the peasants in , in part because it would need a new policy after nineteen forty five would n't you because not just on , on the financial side but er er a lot of your mobilization has come through , a as you say , nationalism now once the Japanese are defeated , that 's finished . |
| 18 | I 'm er I 'm pretty clear what 's expected of me but not so certain that I know how to make it sufficiently interesting to achieve your undivided attention . |
| 19 | Well probably about my size , she 's a bit , little bit bigger than me but not very much . |
| 20 | My stepfather was strict and did n't let us have friends in the house ; he physically abused me but not sexually . |
| 21 | There are a lot of people looking at potential deals and analysing them but not necessarily announcing them . ’ |
| 22 | Deborah Sherwin , prosecuting , said many of the guns were modified in order to disable them but not sufficiently in the view of scientists who examined them . |
| 23 | Some of them but not very many . |
| 24 | If your father dies and you are helping your widowed mother with these matters , you can assure her that not only will she not lose her own retirement pension , but that it may be paid at an increased rate after her husband 's death . |
| 25 | Panic began to grip Mildred as it slowly dawned on her that not only Tabby , but also the bedstead , all the furniture and even the bats sleeping round the picture rail were many times larger than usual . |
| 26 | In the second chapter of Philippians , a little bit before where we read , Paul 's describing the seriousness of the illness of his friend and companion , Ep Aproditus And even although he had written that the thought of his own death caused him no qualms whatever , when he was writing about his friend , Aproditus being at the point of death , he said , But God had mercy on him and not only upon him but on me also lest I should have sorrow on sorrow . |
| 27 | was that he might look straight at her and not even know her . |
| 28 | She defines the practice as ’ … the use by an insider of price sensitive information ( known to him but not generally and which he has acquired by virtue of his position ) to trade to his advantage in the shares of a company . ’ |
| 29 | Any party to proceedings therefore has a general right to see social work records in so far as they relate to him but not otherwise ( see Chapter 3 , 5 ) . |
| 30 | Amongst the casualties left on the field by the fleeing enemy was a Northumberland squire named Foster , who had been stunned when his horse toppled on him but not seriously injured . |