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

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1 Voice not so loud as Great Spotted .
2 Look down at the foot of the page and you will probably find others , occurring not so frequently but with regularity and at fixed intervals .
3 ‘ That was seventeen years ago and she has n't as far as I know been seen or heard of since ; surely that adds up to a disappearance ?
4 Those in power wanted the voice of newly independent Tanganyika to express itself forcefully in a printed medium that could be received not only nationally but also abroad .
5 Just for a moment , suppose that it had been proved beyond doubt that reincarnation was a fact and we all lived not just once but many times .
6 My aunts lived not much more than thirty miles away , but it was an awkward , cross-country journey .
7 Let us be adult about this and accept that , in view of the fact that even the very strictest diets suggest that you eat not much less than 1,000 calories daily , those three calories are n't going to make a jot of difference to your weight loss .
8 There is the Aarau around the Bahnhofstrasse , a powerful thoroughfare which cries success and prosperity aloud , wide as a Parisian boulevard , fringed with banks , commercial buildings , department stores , and all the paraphernalia of a sophisticated modern city , though , even with its developing environs , it accommodates not much more than 50,000 people .
9 Curval took out the slide — it seemed not as carefully as before — and set it down on the table beside him .
10 And that takes us to the question of what it is that might be going on behind the screen — a question which leads not only forward and to Ulysses and beyond , but backwards , into a reconsideration of Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist .
11 And yes , a ‘ band of men ’ or a ‘ number of men ’ does indeed suggest not much more than thirty .
12 The Foundation 's funds , although they arise in modest sums from events such as the concerts and total not much more than £300,000 , have a disproportionate effect in use .
13 After all , a large fast reactor could cost not much less than £2000 million to build .
14 Not surprisingly , therefore , entrepreneurs and managers can become locked into an existing company structure which may perform not particularly well but adequately enough to survive , or to survive while its position is steadily being undermined by import penetration .
15 Equally , it meant that rivals were judged not only personally but in their relatives too .
16 The following year Mazarin commissioned Francesco Buti , the librettist of Rossi 's Orfeo , to recruit Italian singers and write another work , Le nozze di Peleo e di Theti , for which a Roman composer Carlo Caproli supplied the music and in which the dancers included not only Lully but the 15-year-old Louis XIV who was full of admiration for him .
17 For all the young people who have shared not just today but shared together in this weekend thank you God .
18 What ‘ does ’ and ‘ does not ’ count as ‘ science ’ depends on the social meaning given to science , which will vary not only historically and cross-culturally but within societies and situationally .
19 It may be difficult to identify a precise boundary and it is essential that they are defined not only legally but practically on site in the presence , and with the agreement , of adjoining owners .
20 The concept of integration as a process implies teaching strategies which will enable children with special needs to learn not only alongside but together with their classmates .
21 In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 .
22 Er no we do n't not really because at this stage now as you said there 's so many good standards out there you we would every year we would start off with about a hundred titles , work our way down to maybe fifty down to thirty and we 'd end up recording about in fact this year we recorded thirty six songs and out of that we picked twenty two for the
23 He was exhausted by his debate on the church I do n't well probably because nobody else turned up .
24 So I do n't think anyone here as an elected member , needs to defend their positions if they wish to move from a political or a bureaucratic policy to something which is more pluralist and much more representative of the kind of policies that this council should be discussing not only now but also in the future .
25 Other than for Tutorial Classes , the WEA as a Responsible Body had not only traditionally provided the organisation for student demand but had also appointed its own tutors and approved syllabuses for courses within its Chapter III provision .
26 However , the treasurer needs to know how much he will be borrowing not just today but for the rest of this week , the rest of this month and the rest of this year .
27 This second invasion of Caesar lasted not much longer than the first but he advanced farther into the country , having a larger army .
28 When it comes , in Chapter 6 ‘ A review of some major issues ’ , to this point it simply declares : There is in this assertion more sound and flannel signifying not very much than there is substance .
29 It certainly had n't so far as he , Naseby , was concerned .
30 He had n't much longer before he ceased to function .
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