Example sentences of "[vb base] not [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The rate at which you eat not only strongly influences how much you want to eat but — more surprisingly — it influences the length of time elapsing before you feel the desire to eat again .
2 Advocacy schemes focus on the rights , entitlements and choices of individuals , but they do not generally much influence the wider issues of the way services are planned , shaped and managed .
3 One of our difficulties — and one reason why debates such as this are so welcome — is that we do not yet quite understand or know what we are trying to achieve .
4 We do not yet really know why .
5 But we do not yet fully understand how people comprehend such sentences .
6 Lessors do not however always act with great speed !
7 You do not however now own a house in France .
8 Modern prehistorians do not any more attach such importance to the introduction of pottery , which can not be clearly correlated with such things as agriculture .
9 Like him , I do not necessarily automatically accept everything that is stated in Scottish newspapers .
10 Shareholders , banks and so on do not necessarily tightly constrain managers essentially because they lack enough information to do so , and this is either a result of some problem in the market for information ( e.
11 But your suspenseful situations do not necessarily ever need to become other than subtle .
12 He and I do not perhaps instantly fit into the standard parliamentary stereotypes of the steady old stallion and the keen young foal who are usually harnessed together for this occasion .
13 Unrelated participles do not usually seriously impede a reader 's understanding , but they are generally considered incorrect forms .
14 Temporary problems do not usually seriously damage leather corals ; if conditions are returned to normal they usually recover .
15 While applications do not always positively demand this capability , the overwhelming trend in modern multimedia is towards providing it .
16 Although the enumerative approach to the design of a classification scheme can be traced to the Greeks , long experience has shown that enumerative classification schemes are relatively inflexible and , whilst providing a working subject order , do not always adequately allow for all subjects .
17 They do not always accurately portray the degree of damage , nor do they vouchsafe how long the damage has been there .
18 These tests do not always accurately reproduce the disease symptoms .
19 Locke does not mean , though , that ideas are necessarily received in their simplicity : complexes can be got directly from experience , and do not always actually have to be built up from experienced simples .
20 Even in the United States ' Supreme Court with its overtly political processes of appointment , it seems that , in deciding landmark cases embodying sweeping reforms of the law , the justices do not always fully appreciate the significance and social consequences of their decisions ( Horowitz , 1977 ) .
21 Families , which essentially means women , already provide massive , unpaid , largely unrecognized care and it is vital that policies of decentralization and community care do not too readily shift an even greater burden on to both the elderly themselves and their caring relatives .
22 Do not so well agree ;
23 The quality press and the Daily Mail do not so readily create nicknames , although they are willing to use the existing currency — ‘ Yesterday , detectives were hunting a man locals call ‘ the stranger from Devil 's Wood ’ ' ( Daily Mail ) .
24 Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact .
25 If there is any one awareness common to the great modern writers , it is that language will not do our bidding , that good or bad intentions do not so much pave roads , as poke up odd coloured weeds through the roadway .
26 That , that well helps the er poor people , cos a lot of the poor people do n't near enough pay tax now because if they do they only have to pay twenty P
27 Er clearly when we have got that situation , we do n't just simply put the numbers in and press the button and you get the answer out at the end , er the people who er did this for us at the time , er are professional er transportation consultants er and given that the key er one of the key outputs from this model was the effect of a er a bypass , then this is something that we looked at in in some detail as well as er the actual effects that the model was putting out .
28 For example , the ship has a power meter which drops as you get hit , but builds back up over a period of time , you do n't just simply die when hit .
29 But we do n't just simply press a button .
30 Because you do n't just suddenly go in give communion to someone and walk away again do you ?
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