Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er is not a possibility of having more open days so that general public can come in to see what 's happening and not only advertise in Harlow but advertise I live in Bishop 's Stortford now in the surrounding districts erm time gets although you said you get fifty per cent of people coming from outside of Harlow it does n't matter where the people come from as long as they come so more open days free erm to get people to come in and er particularly er outside people also I would suggest that the er chairman 's of the local district council 's who are not contributing be invited to the open day to see what er the playhouse is doing for the people who live in there er council area 's to see whether we can get some more supports er as a Stortford resident I 'd be quite happy to add a bit on my community charge to go to the playhouse . . |
| 2 | In short , we know what is happening but not why . |
| 3 | In men , cats and rats , the prevention of REM sleep by selective awakenings results in increased amounts of this sleep stage on recovery , as if what had been " missed " was then being " made up " , suggesting that not only does this sleep stage have its own drive mechanism , but it may have an important function . |
| 4 | I console myself by reflecting that not only do I have a higher lifetime-best break than he does ( 34–30 ) , I also hold several other table records . |
| 5 | The question whether to continue training or not invariably depends on the expert and his or her individual belief . |
| 6 | The idea was to give them food that was nourishing but not particularly appetizing . |
| 7 | She gazed around at the paintings which hung on the walls , looking but not really seeing . |
| 8 | Prison officers allege that the implementation of Fresh Start has led to understaffing because not enough new prison officers have been recruited . |
| 9 | In the View from the Hotel Mistral Braque had been influenced decisively by Cézanne , and a significant and till recently little known Landscape with Houses , executed probably a month or two later shows him putting his studies of Cézanne to daring if not totally satisfactory conclusions . |
| 10 | I do n't know whether I 'm going or not now . |
| 11 | In view of subsequent denials by all concerned that the King of Prussia had been directly involved in events leading up to Leopold 's decision , it is worth noting that not only was the King present but also the Crown Prince of Prussia , Leopold , and his father Prince Anthony . |
| 12 | The heat was going but not completely gone . |
| 13 | The value of your investment will depend upon prevailing market conditions including but not exclusively the level of the FT-SE 100 Index at that time . |
| 14 | Is it strident enough in stating that not enough is being achieved ? |
| 15 | James Montague , Bishop of Winchester , had decreed the same shortly before his death in 1618 , stating that not more than £400 be spent on his funeral — an incredibly large amount even by early seventeenth-century standards . |
| 16 | Very tempting to take a profit , considering that not long ago the shares were only 130p . |
| 17 | Do n't know whether Clare 's coming or not yet . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm saying that not even a ten-year-old would fall for the line of crap you just had me feed Kevin . ’ |
| 19 | Similarly , it is hardly surprising that he speaks in glowing and not always accurate terms of Cnut 's reign itself . |
| 20 | erm I also think that people will use the fact that people are staying away , or have stayed away , because of the Gulf as a sort of excuse for people not coming and not really get down to the roots of maybe , you know , why are n't people , why do n't people want to stay in British hotels , why do n't people want to stay in London Hotels ? |
| 21 | And if retailers do indeed start charging less for cash purchases than for those bought on credit cards , ensure that this is precisely what they are doing and not merely surcharging credit card users . |
| 22 | It was like discovering an old trick , something he had n't done for years and had thought was dead — unnerving but not entirely unpleasurable . |
| 23 | ‘ Kavanagh said the steak was n't great but that the lamb was good , ’ Maggie added but Moran was already on his way out again , muttering that not even simple things were made clear in this house and if simple things could n't be made clear how was a person ever to get from one day to the next in this world . |
| 24 | We might begin to explain this paradox by recognizing that not only is much of what we call knowledge socially constructed , the boundaries between subjects are also socially constructed . |
| 25 | I should add that I had some entertainment on learning that not so long ago the local minister had run off with a young man . |
| 26 | Building up relationships with other agencies is time consuming and not always productive , so the links tend to be forged one by one by the few full-time staff available for this important aspect of developing special needs work . |
| 27 | Your man might have tendencies towards ruthlessness , like to be in control of people and situations , make his own rules , be good at taking but not so good at giving . |
| 28 | The Survey makes this point very clearly by showing that not far short of half of all defective items issued ( 42% ) were modern , 20th Century publications , a fact which underlines the danger of assuming that priority should automatically be given to the treatment of older material . |
| 29 | PET scan studies of metabolic activity during various forms of cognitive performance have further reinforced this point , showing that not only is the left hemisphere more active than the right during linguistic function but also that the sub-areas implicated in language by the lesion studies are more active than surrounding areas . |
| 30 | They interpret the studies as showing that not only are central details more likely to be attended to in the arousal condition , but that since even when only one eye fixation is permitted the same results occur , there must be differences in the processing of arousing material in addition to the original attentional effect . |