Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I walked out of the ward and round the red screen I felt as old as Humber and as worried as she was about my not yet having been fully trained . |
| 2 | It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus . |
| 3 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
| 4 | W.H. Smith owed no small part of his fortune to the stalls he had placed on every station platform , many of which not only offered a full range of books and papers but operated lending libraries . |
| 5 | The well-being of the community — largely composed of dairy-farmers — as a whole was bound up in the extensive municipal common lands , the existence of which not merely helped the poor but put a limit on the land hunger of the richer peasants . |
| 6 | Colleagues , I gave you twelve thousand eight hundred and twelve reasons for you not only to support by raising your hands , but by actively supporting your fellow members in their fight to retain the Wages Councils and to guard and protect their wages . |
| 7 | Some feminist critics have condemned this film for itself not roundly condemning violence towards women . |
| 8 | Brentano evidently has in mind a relation between something not explicitly mentioned , that which is active , and , on the other hand , contents and objects . |
| 9 | To recognize the value present in a situation ( he urges ) is not merely to have an attitude which someone else who conceives the ‘ factual character ’ of the situation in exactly the same way might lack , but to conceive it in a particular kind of way which could not be duplicated in someone not thus drawn to it . |
| 10 | There is , moreover , a specially paradoxical version of it which arises from certain cases in which not only does extra conceptual content have to be introduced to characterize the human prohibition , but also the introduction of that content stands in conflict with the proposed biological explanation of it . |
| 11 | Since all the members of the family made no attempt to hide their feelings of antipathy , Mathilde 's behaviour was in itself not particularly remarked on by those who packed the huge interior of Notre Dame : |
| 12 | Virtually all the accounts we have suggest that the public schools , in spite of Arnold 's efforts , continued to exist in something not far removed from a Hobbesian state of nature — or rather , just far enough removed to allow for the development of tribal ritual . |
| 13 | Without foreign or extraneous admixture ; free from anything not properly pertaining to it ; homogeneous , unalloyed . |
| 14 | Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event . |
| 15 | I get it form most of his kind , who remember that I was once a private investigator , and so to them not far removed for law . |
| 16 | Talking about your worries to someone not directly involved will help you to express your feelings and come to terms with your previous experiences . |
| 17 | In any event , additional land has been identified since which not only covers this but also the scale of shortfall reflected in the SEELPI Reporter 's recommendations . |
| 18 | The unkind things your husband says to you not only make you feel bad but also make him feel better . |
| 19 | To that end Stockman , the director of the OMB and the principal architect of Reagan 's first budget , set about reducing the role of Congress to something not far removed from that of the House of Commons . |
| 20 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 21 | Gigant Street was most interesting for it not only housed Gibbs Mew & Co 's Brewery but also Tylee 's Rag and Bone store or more correctly , as the large sign at the front of the building proclaimed , ‘ C.E. TYLEE , Wool , Horsehair , Rag , Metal and Skin Merchant and Marine Store Dealer . ’ |
| 22 | This distinction between cognitions ( the informational building blocks , the stored bits of information ) and specific attitudes or opinions is critical , for it not only emphasizes the public 's growing dependence on the mass media for information but it also draws our attention to the consequences of such a dependence . |
| 23 | In a way it is even more predictable , for it not only has a standardized melodic/lyric structure ( first phrase : four bars ; second phrase : four bars , more or less repeating the first ; third phrase : four bars , contrasting or complementary ) but also a schematic sequence of ( highly ‘ primitive ’ ) chords : |
| 24 | The razzmatazz of a US election can be an education for anyone not fully versed in politics the American way , but just how does the rather involved system work ? |