Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] not [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In particular it is important to appreciate that while the Americans frequently accused the British of old-fashioned colonialism , this did not necessarily mean that the spokesman or writer was wholly ignorant of the evolution of British imperial policies since Queen Victoria . |
| 32 | He conceded there was less reading of ‘ non-purposeful ’ material , such as comics , but added that this did not necessarily mean there was less literacy . |
| 33 | Yet this did not necessarily make him ‘ an outsider in English society ’ , readily employed by Edward II against the magnates . |
| 34 | This did not necessarily imply anti-intellectualism , though in Britain and the United States it was pervasive , because the triumphs of business were pre-eminently those of poorly educated men using empiricism and common sense . |
| 35 | But again , this did not necessarily follow : the spirit of the exchange mattered too . |
| 36 | Even when one can see a similar history of decline or recovery , this did not necessarily occur in different towns at the same time ( 71 ) . |
| 37 | The mean ratio of butyrate/glutamine metabolism in the descending colon was greater in controls than in UC , but this did not quite reach significance ( p=0.09 ) . |
| 38 | In controls the rate of butyrate metabolism in the ileum was significantly higher than in the ascending colon ( p<0.05 ) , and although the mean rate of glutamine metabolism was also higher in the ileum this did not quite achieve statistical significance ( p=0.06 ) . |
| 39 | Somehow this did not quite seem Helen 's style . |
| 40 | These oaths , and the bond they established , had their origin in the relation of lord and follower in the courts of the barbarian chieftains and they had a powerful religious aura , though this did not always prevent them being broken . |
| 41 | Although this did not always turn out to be quite what was expected , it was at least memorable . |
| 42 | But this did not really hit orthodox Christianity , for prayers are always subject to the thing asked for being God 's will ; and He moves in a mysterious way , so that the workings of Providence may not be apparent until long afterwards . |
| 43 | This did not originally have the plunging action of today 's routers , and was really only a fixed motor with a collet to take a limited number of cutters . |
| 44 | The HQ at Mape was bombed , although this did not seriously disrupt the defence plan as four columns of Japanese , some 2,500 troops in all , drove inland ( see map p. 77 ) . |
| 45 | Promotions in government service were likely to go to those officers who were able to make themselves useful politically , and if the connection between advancement and political activity was blatant in the case of Drummond , it was a link which long persisted , for even when revenue officers were deprived of the franchise , this did not materially alter the connection between holders of a revenue office and the politicians whose solicitations remained the usual route to advancement . |
| 46 | This did not usually involve medication as the following interviewee 's experience of Detention Centre illustrates : |
| 47 | In Wales the Unionists had only two coupons out of twenty-two , because most of the sitting Liberals backed Lloyd George , but this did not much impress Welsh Unionists . |
| 48 | This did not merely contradict experiment ; it made no sense at all . |
| 49 | And this do n't even have a Gold Star Valet Service . |
| 50 | I mean you know loads of people like this do n't always get it right . |
| 51 | Most authoritative commentators on British politics in the period between the Reform Acts , 1832 and 1867 did not just describe and explain our politics . |
| 52 | However , the arrival of the French did not quite coincide with the national uprising of ‘ 98 . |
| 53 | We and the British do n't always agree . |
| 54 | A report of the Institutional Shareholders ' Committee in April 1992 noted that ‘ most companies do no more than comply with the very limited disclosure requirements of SSAP 13 and some do not even do that . |
| 55 | It is most disturbing to realize that many of you do not receive any Further Training and some do not even pay their Membership subscription . |
| 56 | Indeed there is , if anything , a tendency for the final events to be revealed early in the investigation while the factors which led to them remain obscure until a much later stage , and some do not ever emerge at all . |
| 57 | Other keyboard types need different country key mappings and some do n't even have a pounds sign ! |
| 58 | After all , there are a lot of divisions in the police — they do n't all wear uniforms and some do n't even shave . |
| 59 | you know that s some do n't really have a great deal of problem , others really do have a sort of off work for two or three days every month and it 's not a bundle of laughs because , you know , that really must be difficult , but they , they get a rough idea of how it for them |
| 60 | That 's a thing about stories , sometimes ; they have different endings according to who you listen to , and some have sort of open endings , and some do n't actually have proper endings yet . ’ |