Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it may have still seemed a lot of money at I think one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds , I ca n't comment or not not having seen the size of the estate , but it compares quite well with the five thousand one hundred and sixty sixty pound Five hu Five thousand seven hundred and sixteen pounds that the Midland bank charge on the particular estate . |
| 2 | Feline individualism begins to assert itself , and anyone who has owned , say , a crossbred tabby , a Siamese , a Persian and an Abyssinian will know that not only different individuals but also different breeds have their own special vocal characteristics . |
| 3 | But a good removal man can very often pack and not actually use ties because of the way he fits stuff in . |
| 4 | The requirement of the Education ( No. 2 ) Act 1986 Section 17 that each LEA should formulate a written policy on the range and balance of the school curriculum , and then that each school should consider but not necessarily follow that LEA policy , may be regarded as a brief , and confusing , interlude in the movement towards a national curriculum . |
| 5 | Will he confirm that not only has British Telecom invested — this is what the Opposition keep talking about — £20,000 million in new technology , but it has contributed no less than £1,000 million in corporation tax to the Exchequer ? |
| 6 | At this point I simply want to underline the fact that Scripture demonstrates clearly that it is God 's intention that the Kingdom should grow and not merely remain static . |
| 7 | Again early in the second half he was just wide , but after 49 minutes he did succeed when not only did Wakefield collapse a scrum but they were also offside . |
| 8 | Later still again , she was doing her A's , there was Daddy talking to them over the shepherd 's pie about Keir Hardie , and her saying , ‘ Oh gosh I see , yes — ! ’ and Mummy laughing , ‘ Can we all eat and not so much learned talk . |
| 9 | I said , ‘ If there is naught else in Paradise for me but this delight which I have in my own nature , no other blessing will I want and not even the houris and sugarcane of Paradise will divert me from it . ' ’ |
| 10 | Edward could see that not only Desmond Morton had been drinking . |
| 11 | The public , as ratepayers , should realize that not only is all compensation paid out of the land-drainage budget , but that the fees of the landowner 's agent are also financed entirely out of the public purse of the water authority or other public body carrying out the scheme . |
| 12 | One could calmly ovulate and not even know one was doing it , as it all happened ‘ down there ’ ; this left ‘ up here ’ free for intellectual thought . |
| 13 | She said to me you can go and get it out , honestly , you know the other day he could hardly s well y you could see but not nearly as good as this |
| 14 | oh well I , I think it did , it did emerge but not so clearly , but it did emerge in Mr evidence |
| 15 | It also has to hinder to recognition of what the needs of the people of the city are and I actually cast out , wipe out services and the needs of central administration which is essential to any council and I would hope that not only my own back this amendment . |
| 16 | This would imply that not only is psychopathology becoming increasingly externalized , but also increasingly schizoid in appearance . |
| 17 | Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down . |
| 18 | This did happen but not quite as Seth intended as the casket was washed ashore near the city of Byblos on the Syrian coast , close to the base of a young tamarisk tree . |
| 19 | If we take the former interpretation of the increase in rape reporting then this would mean that not only are more men raping , but also the judiciary is increasingly allowing them to get away with it . |
| 20 | One thing one thing we could do is erm reduce or not not photo-reduce but just cut out the middle of a sheet of the headed notepaper , then you get two two ha er two A five things but that way round . |
| 21 | To her it may seem that not only was she robbed of happiness during her marriage , but that she is now also being denied the right to grieve as well , for there will be those who will be expecting her mourning to be nothing more than a brief bow to convention , followed by a fairly speedy rise in spirits and return to normality . |
| 22 | We showed a lot of character and with the way we played.had the courage to go out and play and not just belt the ball up field . ’ |
| 23 | Coming now from , down to more specific ways of winning new work , due diligence was an initiative which we wanted to er tackle but not only in this office across the country and across the northern region . |
| 24 | Does he agree that not only do those excellent schemes make a positive contribution towards crime prevention , but they build bridges between the police and the community ? |
| 25 | Does the Minister agree that not only crime but anti-social behaviour are causing immense alarm and distress throughout almost all of Britain ? |
| 26 | Does he accept that not only that youth 's family but many other people have a total lack of comprehension as to how someone could be hanged in this country when he was in police custody when the gun was fired and the unfortunate police officer was killed by another person ? |
| 27 | In fact , I would argue that not only does it do this , but that it goes much further , indicting all men in complicity for rape and insisting that they share the guilt . |
| 28 | For instance , if the directors of the smaller company have had to issue consideration shares at a significant discount to the market price in order to persuade shareholders of the larger company to accept the offer the minority may argue that not only have they been diluted unfairly but also that this has resulted in control passing into the hands of third parties and that they are , effectively , investors in an entirely different company without having been given the opportunity to accept an offer or exercise their rights of challenge under CA 1985 , s430C . |
| 29 | You 'll find that not only is he no oil-painting ( more like The Picture of Dorian Gray ) , but he 's dull , predictable , lacklustre , hidebound , sexist and clumsy . |
| 30 | Those whose entitlement is established , however , will find that not only the first few pounds of some other form of income they have may be disregarded , but the value of a house they own or occupy is not counted as part of their income . |