Example sentences of "[adv] not [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , no it it 's all right to stuff the elephant , but but we thought we 'd better not stop the human being as well . |
| 2 | We were , however , not encouraged to fraternise , as our Establishment considered that the Yanks , being naïvely and pressingly inquisitive , and perhaps not possessing an inherited sense of the paramount importance of secrecy in wartime , might prove a security risk . |
| 3 | George was civil servant enough not to ask a simple question if a fancy one would do . |
| 4 | I think if we go down not having a responsible position to our debts , repaying our debts in the long term , erm , we are going to be restricted on what we can borrow with the capital , because no government is going to , you know , my party or your party , is going to let us go on building debts , and more debts by giving us permission to borrow money and more money and more money . |
| 5 | This has sensibly not escaped the British heavyweight champion ; so for all the understandable excitement felt when knocking out Tyrell Biggs in the seventh round , by far the most important of 32 consecutive victories he has achieved since turning professional in 1984 , he was not reluctant to focus on the flaws . |
| 6 | The Court , in upholding the LEA 's right not to determine the special educational provision that should be made for the child , drew an important distinction . |
| 7 | Okay , imagine she 's effectively not earning a tangible income . |
| 8 | ‘ I had just not met the right woman before I met you that night . |
| 9 | In some cases I have deliberately not mentioned a particular plant because I consider it to be unsuitable for pressing , but I am sure that there are many plants not listed that will press very well . |
| 10 | ( With the exception of preparations last month for the visit of Kiichi Miyazawa , the prime minister of Japan , President Clinton has still not chaired a high-level meeting on the subject . ) |
| 11 | Despite Mercer 's injury , Leeds say they 've still not finalised a two-year deal for Aussie Test back rower Bob Lindner . |
| 12 | The bank gives warning that industry expectations of inflation had still not reached the level consistent with keeping price rises in the target range . |
| 13 | On the one hand they have abandoned the pre-Copernican world and pre-Darwinian attitudes to the Bible , but they have still not discovered the real centre of the spiritual universe . |
| 14 | In fact , by Christmas 1988 , after three months solid debate , it had still not completed the first of the five subject areas laid down by Energy Secretary Cecil Parkinson at the start . |
| 15 | Despite my luck with the Harlequin ducks the Barrow 's goldeneyes declined to come close enough and I had still not got a good shot when , with reluctance , we left Mýatn . |
| 16 | Moreover , it seems as if the Thatcherite revolution has still not penetrated the dark towers of Marsham Street . |
| 17 | Capitalizing on the alarm in official circles , the BMJ complained that military chiefs had still not learnt the terrible lessons of the South African war . |
| 18 | Clinton said , ‘ So , the Luciferi have still not learnt the true purpose of your mission . |
| 19 | And , at 62 , Joe has still not found a new job . |
| 20 | With the exception of preparation for his meeting with Kiichi Miyazawa , the prime minister of Japan , he has still not had a full-blown meeting on trade with his economic team . |
| 21 | Women are still not permitted the same sexual freedom as men . |
| 22 | According to the advocacy group Black and In Care , the borough had still not initiated the independent inquiry to which residents are entitled two months after protests about abuse were received . |
| 23 | The city council has still not published an official notice telling the traders of the changes more than SIX months after the controversial decision was approved by councillors . |
| 24 | DICKIE BIRD , the world 's most famous umpire , vowed yesterday not to let the final Cornhill Test match turn into a war . |
| 25 | As the whole object of selling the record , if it was a sale , was to increase the sales of chocolate , it seems to me wrong not to treat the stipulated evidence of such sales as part of the consideration . |
| 26 | He will probably not reach the par-fives which Greg Norman , Ian Woosnam and Fred Couples will reach with ease . |
| 27 | Again he 's probably not eating the right things . |
| 28 | Matters which the partners might wish to settle in advance include their rights to bid for partnership assets ( since the court would probably not grant the necessary authority to one only of the former partners against the objection of the others ) , the transfer of assets to individual partners in specie , the manner in which sales of partnership property should be conducted ( by private treaty or at auction ) , advertisement of the dissolution , and provisions conferring special authority upon individual partners in any respect during the winding-up of the firm . |
| 29 | Many proponents of commune life would probably not regard the collective solution as a real commune but , in reality , most British communes are collections of couples living together . |
| 30 | But , although they will have an intimate knowledge of computers , they will probably not have a deep knowledge of the particular application of the proposed software . |