Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The LM series produces very high dilutions and although not greatly favoured is used on occasion . |
| 2 | What Greg did not greatly like was the tone . |
| 3 | Being poor , she knew from experience , did not necessarily mean being without taste . |
| 4 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |
| 5 | We would not necessarily have been notified yet . ’ |
| 6 | Although children become familiar with the terms used in the story and call out when they are listening to it , the ideas involved may not necessarily have been understood . |
| 7 | However , they would not necessarily have been conscious of this if they were in an ordinary environment with normal background sounds . |
| 8 | If fierce enforcement powers had been available when basic accounting standards were being evolved , compliance with standards might have been more uniform , but the standard of financial reporting would not necessarily have been improved . |
| 9 | In the longer term , of course , this would not necessarily have been true , simply because the loyalty , and the ability , of Gloucester 's successors were an unknown quantity , but it is significant that the terms of the Cumberland grants were less generous than those north of the border . |
| 10 | A symbol which is a male symbol appears in our culture to represent maleness , in a way in which earlier this may not necessarily have been the case . |
| 11 | Unanimity could not necessarily have been guaranteed , the world of sports writing being as prone to subjective whims and self-protecting egos as any other field of creative endeavour , despite its genuine air of rough-hewn camaraderie . |
| 12 | I think its a bit of a simplification to say that its , its nature 's way of keeping us going , because actually er ro , the idea that romantic love is the start of a life long relationship that produces off spring is really quite recent , erm for , for most of history er marriage 's were on the basis of continuing er lines , continuing property and people had to erm some how or other cope with living with ano another person that might not necessarily have been the person that they would of chosen from love and , and this is still true in many societies and situations now . |
| 13 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |
| 14 | In both of these scenarios the non-verbal signals of neither party would not necessarily have been conscious . |
| 15 | Because of this view I have , I believe Alfieri need not necessarily have been a lawyer as almost any other outsider would have done the job just as well . |
| 16 | In the longer term , of course , this would not necessarily have been true , simply because the loyalty , and the ability , of Gloucester 's successors were an unknown quantity , but it is significant that the terms of the Cumberland grants were less generous than those north of the border . |
| 17 | The attempt to cram sufficient experience of a five year span into a term of ten weeks brought with it superficiality and rush , leaving a guilty residue of feeling that not enough had been done thoroughly enough . |
| 18 | The reason behind the emphasis is an admission that not enough has been done to help the small , growing company and a belief that a key element in the failure of many growing enterprises to expand beyond a certain size is the lack of links with the right people to provide help in the major decisions faced at that stage . |
| 19 | But despite the firms success , it 's owner Chick Grail feels that not enough has been done to help industry . |
| 20 | Not enough 's been achieved here and we 'll be back . |
| 21 | The idea points to a kind of dynamic joy of understanding between creator and creation ; that it is not constantly felt is due to sin . |
| 22 | After all , it 's not much use being fingered as someone who 's going places if there 's nowhere to go . |
| 23 | But even in Millers , we went and looked there was supposed to be a sale on they 're not much reduced are they ? |
| 24 | Undergraduates of moderate ability do not much like being asked to choose between differing judgements on the same text ; I can imagine them becoming confused and resentful if they were asked to choose between different critical approaches and all their attendant ideological baggage . |
| 25 | In the case of a woman who elects not to pay the full National Insurance contribution the full National Insurance benefit to which she would have been entitled if she had not so elected is deducted from the sickness allowance . |
| 26 | Is he aware that , under British Shipbuilders , Laird 's was classified as a naval yard , and other yards not so classified were given intervention funding ? |
| 27 | Had it been left at that , as she had originally been built , the Angelina , a typical example of the Tehandiri class , would not only have been striking but downright handsome . |
| 28 | If the plaintiff had not paid he would not only have been subject to legal proceedings for recovery of the tax but would have been liable to forfeiture of his business until it had been paid . |
| 29 | ‘ If they had investigated thoroughly at the time they might not only have been able to identify other elements of the fraud but also help secure some of the lost assets . ’ |
| 30 | If the question of professional misconduct had been pursued the issue would not merely have been the efficacy of the Code but the power of the employer against the strength and stature of the profession , and thence the credibility of the profession . |