Example sentences of "[conj] not [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , because there is a food shortage , the affected people have the choice of eating contaminated food or not eating at all . |
| 2 | Capital equipment ( except in expanding lines like cement ) and , to a large extent , labour employed , remain constant whether or not producing at full capacity . |
| 3 | I said vs West Ham that Whelan and Deane we too similar , both looking for the same ball — or not feeding off each other . |
| 4 | Every now and again you 're with somebody who 's putting their foot down and either not anticipating enough or not thinking in enough depth , or they might have an attitude whereby sod it , I 'm just going anyway . |
| 5 | For either student , going at the wrong pace can well mean not learning as much as the average , or not learning at all , and this is true for the highly intelligent student as well as the one with learning difficulties . |
| 6 | But if Marx 's arguments were valid in their historical context , they should not be allowed to block the development of concrete proposals which , although not acting as historical blueprints , could help to more accurately define , and hence mobilise support for , socialist objectives . |
| 7 | This structural attempt , although not referring to earlier work in English by Leopold and Langbein ( 1962 ) or Chorley and Kennedy ( 1971 ) affords one indication of the way in which a general energy-based approach is being sought . |
| 8 | In the following year a general Act condemned depopulation ( although not engrossing as such ) , declaring that in towns where previously 200 persons were occupied , there were now only two or three herdsmen , and the rest were fallen into idleness . |
| 9 | ‘ Better than not caring at all , ’ said Keith . |
| 10 | Even if you do n't continue with breastfeeding after the first few days , giving your baby colostrum ( the fluid produced by the breasts immediately after the birth ) has major benefits and is obviously better than not breastfeeding at all . |
| 11 | A period of working on contract abroad could leave the employee worse off than not going at all . |
| 12 | ‘ Look at that , ’ he said , and crouched and peered , drawing her in , ‘ a clock , how strange , ’ strange because it was an antique clock with inlaid wood and round brass knobs for legs , it should have been softly ticking away on someone wealthy 's mantelpiece , a china shepherdess on either side , a marble fireplace below , and yet here it was , lying under a bush , and tilted at a curious angle as if it was drunk , and not ticking at all . |
| 13 | The company 's actions in entering into a contract with Riche were ultra vires , and therefore the contract between the company and Riche was void and not binding upon either party . |
| 14 | As a researcher , it was very important to be sensitive to these problems and consistently reassure social workers that I was not undertaking any semi-official enquiry , and not looking for particular cases that ‘ go wrong ’ . |
| 15 | They could not have been less trouble , leaving the house at ten in the morning and not returning until nine in the evening , having already dined . |
| 16 | Sixty-five regardless bearing in mind we 've now offered women the opportunity to earn more money from the year two thousand and ten , and not retiring until sixty-five . |
| 17 | Having gathered the data and not working to any specific time limit for analysis of the results or need to report , I found my self-discipline waning . |
| 18 | He was already handing her the piece of paper which certified that she was in good health and not suffering from any infectious disease . |
| 19 | He let go and she stood up , waving her arms and not sounding at all pleased . |
| 20 | The problems that then have to be borne in mind , as with large pads of H.T.s , are access for dead-heading , protective spraying and , if not weeding as such ( they should be suppressed anyway ) , regular hoeing to keep the soil surface open . |
| 21 | I 'd imagined her leaning forwards and smiling , but not looking like this , somehow . |
| 22 | But not saving to these |
| 23 | And it 's now , it 's continuous again all the way up to but not including plus four . |
| 24 | ‘ But not planning for much of a rest , ’ he observed quietly , glancing at the bulging plastic bag . |
| 25 | However , the fact that the futures contract for June settlement continued to trade at a 26-point premium to ‘ fair value ’ ( 23 points — the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now , but not paying for two and a half months ) indicates that most pundits see the market making further headway after Easter . |
| 26 | Fair value , which drops to 22 on Monday , is the notional premium for buying all Footsie stocks now but not paying for three months , taking into account both dividend payments and interest costs . |
| 27 | While not objecting to centralized planning , proletarian dictatorship or the primacy of the Bolshevik Party , Trotsky strongly opposed the supplanting of the political by the bureaucratic-administrative , a process in which functionaries seek to solve all problems by purely administrative means ( Krygier 1978 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ While not aspiring to any ‘ leading role ’ , we are conscious of our responsibility to co-operate closely with all independent states , ’ the declaration said . |
| 29 | Following the meeting a revised order was issued which , while not complying with all of the islanders ' requests , was considerably more acceptable to them than had been the original directive . |
| 30 | While not agreeing with all of the above , McCullouch 's sentiments have an unnerving knack of echoing ‘ exactly ’ the underlying theme of this book ( as mentioned in the forward ) without prior discourse between myself and McCullouch . |