Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 2 | This did not in practice apply to landless labourers or peasants with very little land , a large and growing element in the rural population ; but if it had been put into effect it would none the less have been the most sweeping social legislation seen anywhere in old regime Europe . |
| 3 | This did not in fact happen , but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap . |
| 4 | As a result when I awoke there was no positive proof that all this had not in fact happened , and that it did not belong to a mental lapse from which I had recovered . |
| 5 | This does not of necessity call for a middle way between the extremes of egalitarianism on the one hand and élitism on the other . |
| 6 | This does not of course , apply to Yagi antennas , which are more or less unidirectional . |
| 7 | They can establish , at least , that the author is an authority on the subject — though this does not of course necessarily guarantee the quality of the end product . |
| 8 | This does not of course mean that the subjects concerned were psychotic , in a clinical sense . |
| 9 | Only one stitch pattern at a time can be downloaded from DesignaKnit to the knitting machine and any patterns currently in the memory of the knitting machine will be erased ( this does not of course apply to the built in Stitch World patterns which can not be erased ) . |
| 10 | This does not of course mean that management control has detrimental effects in all companies , since that would be to ignore the significance of management values , and in any case the extent to which managers benefit from pursuing non-profit goals is unclear . |
| 11 | This does not in fact happen , but in other kinds of social system people do not even pretend that it happens . |
| 12 | In this instance the reader is concerned that marks or stamps the auditor made on a document in the course of preparing accounts could mistakenly be regarded as evidence of authentication when such had not in fact occurred . |
| 13 | The turbulence of the community in the middle 1970s focused not on tea but on DNA . |
| 14 | As in books on the philosophy of art , or aesthetics , many do not in fact contain any art criticism , in the sense of description , interpretation and judgement of individual works . |
| 15 | The most general account of vegetation so far published is that of Wilmott ( 1945 ) for Uig , but that does not of course use the modern methods for vegetation description . |
| 16 | The suggestion that the typical science enthusiast was Anglican and not politically radical does not of course affect the wider generalization that Protestant cultures were more amenable to freedom of thought . |
| 17 | The events of the 1540s led not to decision , but to increased floundering , and a rush for cover . |
| 18 | To conclude that the potential for peasant revolution against the status quo remained undiminished in the decade after 1905 does not of course , dispose of the liberal contention that given a longer period of peaceful development the prospects would have changed . |