Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very principle of social insurance lies not merely threatened but broken by 12 years of abuse by the Government . |
| 2 | The new economic freedom in Russia and today 's new private capital needs not only to grow , but to find some moral refinement and justification in the eyes of society . |
| 3 | Accordingly , your title needs not only to indicate what the essay will be about , but also the point of view it will adopt concerning whatever it is about . |
| 4 | And it needs not only to provide access to files or data , but actually to connect applications running anywhere on the network — and through the application , to connect the minds that are putting the applications to work . |
| 5 | Choosing the final design needs not only care to ensure that the end product will be commercially attractive but that a number of people are involved in the selection to avoid accusations of favouritism . |
| 6 | The Government needs not only to help with after-school childcare but to put a proper amount of money into that service . |
| 7 | BGS 's remit covers not only land areas , but also the designated waters round the United Kingdom . |
| 8 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 9 | During the debate , a member who thinks that the original motion could be improved is at liberty to move an amendment , provided that he has not previously spoken to the motion . |
| 10 | For a centre which has not previously offered SCOTVEC awards , approval as a SCOTVEC centre will be assessed against centre-related criteria . |
| 11 | For a centre which has not previously offered SCOTVEC awards approval will be assessed against the following centre-related criteria . |
| 12 | Shortly before this stage — around the tenth year but with a wide variability — the hypothalamus , a small area at the base of the brain , somehow " triggers " a small gland just below it ( the pituitary gland ) into producing two hormones which it has not previously produced . |
| 13 | Allott , also 35 , was recalled from holiday in Wales to discover his fate , but it could hardly have been a surprise as he has not regularly figured in Lancashire 's games this season . |
| 14 | Rifat Efendi gives Rajab 828/May-June 1425 for Molla Fenari 's appointment not to the Muftilik but to the kadilik of Bursa , but it seems likely that this is a slip of the pen and that he means the Muftilik inasmuch as he says that Molla Fenari went on the pilgrimage in 822/1419 before he became Mufti , an appointment he has not otherwise mentioned . |
| 15 | MAS procedures when associated with an Information memorandum containing projections should be sufficient to enable us to be satisfied that the vendor has not recklessly included information which it does not have reasonable grounds to believe is correct . |
| 16 | Iraq has not even recognised Israel 's right to exist . |
| 17 | Two stadium-sized managerial talents holding half-time team talks while the rest of the soccer world has not even kicked off yet . |
| 18 | So far the Community has not even conceded that these projects are undermined by its own beef-dumping policy . |
| 19 | Yea , Joan thought , I would believe it — and he has not even kissed my hand ! |
| 20 | Zimbabwe has not even begun its promised privatisation programme , nor relaxed tight exchange controls . |
| 21 | I wrote to the Secretary of State , but he has not even begun to justify the Government 's action . |
| 22 | As far as I have seen , the BBC has not even seen fit to broadcast a single programme in his memory . |
| 23 | The petition can be signed by the parliamentary agent himself , and this is of value because last-minute instructions are frequently received , and I have known cases where the client has not even seen the petition until after it was deposited , although he has of course cleared the content by telephone . |
| 24 | He has not even seen yet all the Khedivial estates . |
| 25 | He has not even seen my scrapbooks . |
| 26 | The reform program has not even raised the subject of the ultimate right of the party to control society . |
| 27 | In ridding the Tory Party of its old aristocratic embrace , the Prime Minister has entirely failed — or perhaps has not even tried — to banish oligarchic mores that went with its former upper-crust outlook . |
| 28 | The Home Secretary has not even tried to explain why the Government have changed their mind or why he has rejected the published judgment of his predecessor . |
| 29 | This group of professionals has not even bothered to ease the biggest problem facing entrepreneurs — apart from the unavailability of cheap finance — which is the lack of cash flow that results from customers not paying bills on time . |
| 30 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |