Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 You used to buy the I do n't know whether they do that or not now .
2 It is clear despite this that not enough is being done , and the seriousness of the position is still not fully realized by the average person .
3 What are the things that you 'd like it if it was a bit different you 'd like it better if it was a bit more of this and not so much of something else in it okay .
4 Racing : Richard Baerlein summarises the best of today 's betting prospects Smart Tar on course for Mandarin THE MANDARIN Handicap Chase , now sponsored by Save and Prosper , has many happy memories for some and not so happy for others .
5 For example , it seems perfectly natural to claim that the quantifier some in ( 23 ) means " some and not all " : ( 23 ) Some ten cent pieces are rejected by this vending machine and that would be the basis of the natural interpretation of a notice with this message , attached to the machine .
6 Not only will such a division of labour approximately halve the size of the lexicon ( by accounting for different interpretations of words by a general external principle ) , it will also immeasurably simplify the logical base of semantics — the word some can be equated directly with the existential quantifier in predicate logic ( while the reading " some and not all " taken as basic leads to serious internal contradictions : see Horn , 1973 and Chapter 3 below ) .
7 This provided not only an overview of the stated intentions of Major Project schools but also some kind of check that the six schools chosen as the focus for our study were in these terms not atypical .
8 It was expected that case law would give rise to sufficient precedents to flesh out the relatively few guidelines available under UCTA , but in fact cases have been few and not very helpful .
9 Mine 's like , it 's a bit it 's a bit like this but not as thick .
10 Linked to this but not directly invisible earnings is another £1.9 billion paid to British Carriers .
11 Er , yeah a few but not too many .
12 A few but not as many as he 's got , not as many as he 's got
13 Yeah well some but not as much as the Communist Party
14 The workload is considered such that not even the appointment of a number of additional limited case judges has made much of a dent in it .
15 Government revenue was such that not only was it possible to sustain and indeed expand expenditure on the national health serve , it was possible to do so without substantial increases in taxation .
16 But the Thatcherite counter-revolution is much more all-encompassing : it is an assault on social democracy and all that that term entails , just as much if not more so than on simply ‘ taking out ’ pockets of resistance in specific local areas .
17 But in the UK there is also as much if not more local and regional co-ordination as there is at national level .
18 ‘ I went to class to meet friends , dancing was secondary and the social side was as much if not more important to me as competition . ’
19 ‘ We said too much and not enough ; I ca n't believe you really think I intend that both you and Dana — ’ He came to an abrupt halt , and she felt her face grow hot as she remembered the accusation she had flung at him .
20 It is common ground that Winchester was an appointed representative of Norwich and as such but not otherwise was an exempted person .
21 A user may point out that an attribute is missing from an entity , or that a relationship between entities is one-to-many and not one-to-one as implied by the entity-relationship diagram .
22 They 're worth £20 each and not only will they keep you warm but they look great too !
23 If the redundancy package is too generous many staff will opt for that and not even consider relocating .
24 That , that is the problem I ca n't change that here that and not particularly that problem back up usually here Right , it 's important to see this , so can we have a quick ten minute break and I want somebody
25 Anyway I said to our Pam well you have been brought up to do things like that and not only that if I found a pound on the floor I 'd pick it up that 's different .
26 I mean in the excitement of buying a car you 're not going to read the small print , you 're not going to read the little bit that says you must have the oil changed every three thousand miles and unless you do it within two hundred and fifty miles of that and not only that , you must send evidence of the service by recorded delivery to you .
27 You put too much attention on that and not enough on
28 A basic self-awareness ( a ) to reflect constructively about religion without being overwhelmed by prejudice , whether religious or non-religious ; ( b ) to see and understand the kind of assumptions about religion present in their environment and in society as a whole , and be prepared to think about these and not automatically either reject them or take them over ; ( c ) to develop trust in their own powers of perceptiveness and intuition , provided that this trust is balanced by openness towards the insights of others and the findings of fresh evidence ; ( d ) consequent on this , to develop willingness to modify , change , enlarge , or revise , what has so far been thought and felt about religion .
29 Some people do well in these but not so well in the squad ( and vice versa ) , presumably because of the different pressures each brings to bear .
30 And I think , yes we will do all that but not quite to the extreme and we should try now and sell more during the year and really see how the flow goes .
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