Example sentences of "[adv] not [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Lactoferrin is an iron binding protein that occurs abundantly not only in the specific granules of granulocytes , but also in tears , milk , and secretions at mucosal surfaces .
2 A bomber , almost certainly , perhaps not yet off the secret lists — it was , after all , flying at an uncommon height . ’
3 Perhaps not even in the long summer that stretched ahead of them .
4 After he got home to Scotland he would write about Elsie , perhaps not just for the paper but for himself too .
5 Perhaps not quite to the level of the the development that may be appropriate , but but yes , of of the three market towns in in Selby district it 's acknowledged that Tadcaster would have a a less significant role than the other two market towns , if I can put it that way , and yes , there are a number of constraints in Tadcaster , not not the least of which i is an ownership constraint .
6 Perhaps not quite in the miracle league of Bob Champion , who overcame the same disease to win the Grand National , but the story behind this winner of 37 races is no less remarkable .
7 Another predator — perhaps not quite in the same class as the others described here , but still worth a mention — is the Ichneumon fly .
8 The earliest aryballoi have abstract linear decoration , but it is on this shape , linked to the eastern trade , that the first oriental motives appear in Greek vase-decoration , perhaps not long after the middle of the eighth century .
9 Here the men who streamed into the new ‘ self-improvement ’ associations ( Bildungsvereine ) in the 1860s — there were 1,000 such clubs in 1863 , no less than 2,000 in Bavaria alone by 1872 — rapidly drifted away from the middle-class liberalism of these bodies , though perhaps not sufficiently from the middle-class culture they inculcated .
10 He does so not only on the Queen 's express instructions , he knows the Queen 's mind .
11 It did so not only through the stringent processing of applications and the guidance it offered individual institutions , but also through more general analysis of the problems faced by institutions making the transition from ‘ monotechnic ’ to diversified colleges .
12 Kingsley adjusted his dogcollar meaningfully and replied that he was an expert on the English language who could speak authoritatively not only on the matter of ‘ bollocks ’ but also on ‘ shit ’ or ‘ fuck ’ if required .
13 Finally , with regard to cl 10 , it should be noted that no obligation to permit alteration of the goods to make them non-infringing is imposed on the buyer , and that the obligation to return infringing goods , subject to a refund of the price , is only imposed on the buyer where it arises not at the option of the seller but because of a judgment or settlement relating to the claim of infringement ( which is presumably not entirely within the seller 's control ) .
14 Thus not long after the start of NEP , in a province as sleepy as Kursk , we find already the seeds of socio-economic decay , from a Marxist point of view ( Yakovlev 's ) , leading to possible political difficulties for the centre .
15 Adoption of an athenian model of action for closure initiatives was thus not out of the question .
16 ‘ He 's just not up to the job .
17 ‘ There are n't enough of them and they 're just not up to the standards women want .
18 He toured Britain in 1955 and competed in the British Grand Prix at Aintree but had to retire after 34 laps in his Cooper-Bristol that was just not up to the task of Formula One racing against the likes of Moss and Fangio 's Mercedes .
19 ‘ She 's just not there at the moment .
20 If the evidence , admittedly not here of the best , of land-grants can be accepted , Bealdred , a king in the region of Somerset and west Wiltshire c .
21 Ya'kub and Fenarizade Zeyneddin , for example , rose from kasabat kadiliks to the kadiliks of Aleppo , and Damascus and Aleppo , respectively not long after the Ottoman conquest of those two cities ; but whether this means that these scholars ' careers represent exceptions to the rule or , on the other hand , that Aleppo and Damascus were not yet regarded as mevleviyets is not entirely clear .
22 Evans listed 135 hieroglyphic signs ; although the total is actually rather greater than this , there are still not enough for the system to have been a purely ideographic one , with one sign for each idea .
23 Relations then vary from diverse occasional employment , still not far from the situation of the market professional , to quite new relations , through retainers and serial contracts , in which the writer becomes , in effect , the employed and ( with modifications such as royalties ) salaried professional .
24 The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business .
25 Flotation is still not out of the picture , with 1994 being forecast as the big year .
26 Oh I hope so , but still not out of the woods yet
27 They would be unable to meet them with Third Division gates , and possibly not even with the added revenue Second Division status would guarantee .
28 They would be unable to meet them with Third Division gates , and possibly not even with the added revenue Second Division status would guarantee .
29 What may not recur is the opportunity open to the Library Association at that time to act decisively not only against the ban but to act firmly in support of professional integrity .
30 It 's a play that looks unflinchingly not just into the mouth of lambs but into the abyss .
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