Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | However , women in a similar position are not necessarily ascribed that status . |
2 | The presence of a sewer does not necessarily imply that connection is possible . |
3 | Yet another type of vocabulary can have difference in meaning for patient and nurse and thereby give rise to difficulties — words describing parts of the body , though having a particular anatomical reference , do not necessarily have that reference for lay people , even intelligent lay people . |
4 | The idea that modernization brings about a shift in criminal activity from violence to theft has also been put forward by scholars who do not necessarily accept that violence increases at the beginning of the modernization process . |
5 | It does not necessarily follow that sleep loss would cause these symptoms in otherwise normal individuals . |
6 | It is not enough to show that expenditure elsewhere has had to be curtailed . |
7 | As Burton remarks , ‘ Respondents who are aware of the researcher 's interests do not constantly hold that awareness in mind ’ ( 1978:169 ) . |
8 | Seb 's astonishment had been replaced by eagerness as Christian talked , and the farmer added , ‘ I 've built a reputation for my horses , Seb , and I know you 'll not only continue that reputation , but probably enhance it . ’ |
9 | Following the welcome change in Kenya 's constitution towards a multi-party democracy , and in view of the unhappy news from Kenya yesterday of the repression of demonstrations in Nairobi , will the Minister not only advise that country on the international standards of multi-party democracy , which she has ennunciated from the Dispatch Box before , but suggest that , in order to disarm such demonstrations , it is time that the Government start a dialogue with the Opposition on both the timing and ground rules for an election ? |
10 | Not only does that initiative produce a wider range of services to benefit patients and extra resources for the health service but an improved range of hospital facilities , so that services previously available only to private patients in private hospitals are increasingly available to all patients in NHS hospitals . |
11 | Not only has that disc problem proved frustrating , but so has the inactivity temporarily imposed by a series of exploratory tests to assess the damage : ‘ Having been injured in the second tour match against Queensland I got back to full fitness , played in the First Test and was looking forward to the second . |
12 | The disastrous Lisbon earthquake of 1755 not only shook that city and the faith of the " Age of Reason " ( including Voltaire 's ever hopeful Candide ) , it also considerably modified the local sea-floor and its sediments . |
13 | ( I had better say now that readers who identify the I of the Sonnets with Shakespeare 's own personality not only encourage that futility of speculation about the identity of a real-life ‘ Friend ’ and ‘ Dark Lady ’ which has pestered discussions of these poems for so long , and is now in the last stages of senility ; but in so doing they also destroy one of the essential principles of literary criticism in modern times , the independence of the I in lyric poetry , its existence as a persona or mask behind which the poet is free to impersonate any human situation without being identified with each or all of the mutations — often contradictory — taken on by his persona . ) |
14 | It certainly identifies a central tendency in a particular repertory ; but it goes on not only to consume that repertory in every aspect but also to gobble up all kinds of popular music . |
15 | He had not long declared that poetry was a ‘ mug 's game ’ ; and Rupert Doone , not the most accomplished of public speakers , got rather tied up by trying to say that Eliot was not himself a mug and yet somehow implying that , for saying such a thing he must be . |
16 | Every table was full with local Battersea types who , if not exactly carousing that Tuesday night , kept up a restrained married hum above jazz filtering mauvely from the walls . |
17 | It is perhaps not generally appreciated that warehousing systems constructed to heights in excess of 10 metres can vary considerably in terms of basis of design , construction and the degree of automation employed . |
18 | A dynasty which had ruled a great network of continental territories , larger in geographical extent than those of the Capetian kings of France , could not easily forget that legacy , nor readily adjust to the changed political conditions of the later thirteenth century . |
19 | Most important thing when you receive this is on on day one of the assignment er Douglas is to not just accept that list as it is . |
20 | Bankers do not usually forget that sort of thing . |
21 | After the coup , absolute power rested with the military junta , and increasingly with Pinochet , who in June 1974 was designated Supreme Chief of State , and in December President of the Republic ( although he did not formally assume that title until March 1981 ) . |
22 | Not still washing that cup up ? |
23 | But before the Government 's reforms , the system did not always allow that dedication to produce the service which people should be able to expect . |
24 | It is not always clear that polygyny is of such reproductive value to females as the views of Orians and his colleagues suggest . |
25 | But the inspectorate says it can not possibly reach that stage until well into next year , long after the end of the inquiry . |
26 | An act which does not clearly convey that fact is not sufficient to raise an estoppel . |
27 | ‘ You 're not really reading that book , you 're just trying to look smart , ’ when she sat under a tree with some well-worn treasure . |
28 | ‘ I know you 're not really reading that book . |
29 | ( The RSV seems clear enough when it speaks of them looking into the ark ( 6.19 ) , but the Hebrew will not really bear that sense , and would suggest they merely looked at it . |
30 | She had no idea where they were , had not even noticed that night had fallen . |