Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mean , it 's not necessarily to say that you know , that they |
| 2 | That 's not enough to draw any conclusions about the cause . |
| 3 | Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays . |
| 4 | It is not enough to explain this , as some outsiders and many insiders did , by invoking some theory of social inertia , to the effect that Libyans still had a Bedouin mentality . |
| 5 | It contained much of what the country needs to get out of recession but not enough to give any of us the confidence to believe that the recovery is about to begin . |
| 6 | Not enough to finance all the agitation on the Coptic side , let alone the Moslems as well . ’ |
| 7 | There was some glow from the tiny window on the half-landing above and behind him , but not enough to do much for the hallway ; the sliver of light under his door was hard-edged , bright , unmistakeable . |
| 8 | Even Muni 's name was not enough to sanction this material . |
| 9 | A chapter is not enough to describe this fine mountain . |
| 10 | Before I came to prison I thought I was introspective but ten minutes here and there is not enough to answer some of these questions |
| 11 | The experience of travelling in the huge amphibian , and the take-offs and landings on water increased my interest in aviation , but not enough to effect any change in my plans . |
| 12 | Simply to add water to a dry powder was not enough to satisfy this ritual urge . |
| 13 | Because the $17,000 Dustin received for the picture was not enough to ensure any real security for himself , let alone Anne and the child , he was still not prepared to get married . |
| 14 | Apart from a glass of lager at dinner she had been drinking only fruit juices , while Rune 's own consumption of lager had been only moderate , not enough to have much effect on a man of such highly tuned physique , she comforted herself . |
| 15 | It is not enough to show that expenditure elsewhere has had to be curtailed . |
| 16 | At a certain stage in the analysis it becomes necessary not only to define each entity but also to record the relevant attributes of each entity . |
| 17 | So now the pressure on the broker is not only to do more business but to do it in exactly their way . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The Prime Minister has shown herself completely unfit not only to attend any conference on human rights anywhere , but even to utter the very words . ’ |
| 19 | The organisers of Dublin 's year are keen not only to promote all things Irish but also make a European stand and put on exhibitions of interest to the whole community . |
| 20 | From the 1880s the regime made plain its determination not only to halt any further movement in the direction of public participation but in some respects to reverse the reforms of the 1860s . |
| 21 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 22 | You want a sturdy young fellow here not only to lift that but also those sacks of sugar and such . ’ |
| 23 | We say that we will protect single retired people , we will ensure that the rebate system is improved not only to help those people , but to target help on all those who need it and we will ensure that what people pay is based on their ability to pay and not on their status . |
| 24 | An aggressively commercial approach was required not only to solve some short-term problems but to provide a record of profit that would possibly be attractive for future tender . |
| 25 | The company should therefore engineer the debt not only to match these general business needs , but also to optimise the legal , corporate tax , and maybe even the accounting disclosure implications . |
| 26 | ‘ We are aware there is a degree of anxiety among the public and so we have taken steps not only to contact those people concerned but to set up a helpline so any member of the public can ring in and have private counselling . ’ |
| 27 | A feature of the morphoclimatic zones recognized by the French school ( Tricart , 1957 ) was the attempt not only to relate such morphoclimatic zones to climates and to processes but also to soils and to vegetation . |
| 28 | The grand plan was not only to achieve this stage of evolution in the shortest possible time , but also to eliminate Marxism , the opposing principle or force relative to this philosophy . |
| 29 | But the function of art history today is not only to make such identifications , but also to relate an individual work humanistically to other works of the same school , period and culture , while remaining sensitive to its salient aesthetic qualities . |
| 30 | That means helping them not only to make any additional or different arrangements to what is ‘ normally available for all ’ to meet the needs of particular children , but also to review and develop the general curriculum , so that ‘ what is normally available for all ’ can itself be gradually transformed to provide better learning opportunities for all children in the future . |