Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels .
2 On Aug. 9 Cuomo stated that Bush could be defeated by an aggressive campaign which focused on domestic issues , but suggested that he was not interested in seeking the nomination , although he did not entirely rule out the possibility .
3 It is not entirely clear why a high PTHrP concentration is associated with a poor response to treatment .
4 It is not entirely clear why the end of such features grows for a period and then is recurved back towards the coast .
5 But the Anglicans , like the Lutherans , did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts .
6 One can not suddenly scale up a laboratory procedure by a thousandfold .
7 When engineers go back to the drawing board and create a new design , they do not necessarily throw away the ideas from the old design .
8 The actual workload of doctors does not necessarily reflect accurately the potential demand for their services , as unmet need is not taken into account .
9 The outer boundary of the greenbelt is based on physical features , they 're not necessarily follow exactly the same features all the way round the Greater York Greater York area .
10 The first stage , it should be noted , does not necessarily rule out the possibility of ontological pluralism , unless it explicitly includes the thesis of independence of substance ; it merely involves a rejection of the view that properties and relations are two mutually separate and incommensurable categories , with relations allegedly being purely extrinsic " to ( and hence making no difference to the essential nature of ) their terms .
11 In other words , if one person has double the income of another , the property occupied will not necessarily have twice the rateable value .
12 It can be extremely frustrating for people who have to travel to London and face the expense of preparing a case — sometimes employing parliamentary counsel to put their case — knowing that decisions are not necessarily taken on the merits of the arguments but on political considerations .
13 The number of foreign soldiers who may be sent to watch over them — probably less than a battalion per enclave , except in the Sarajevo area — is not enough to stop even a half-serious attack .
14 Chilled though she was by the bleakness of his voice , it was not enough to damp down the new life in her head .
15 These days it 's not enough to send out the invite and hope they reply .
16 It is not enough to bring in an employee assistance programme if the company fails to face up to its own part in stress mismanagement .
17 DEFENDING champions Ajax Amsterdam were knocked out of the UEFA Cup last night when a 1–0 home victory was not enough to claw back a 4–2 first leg deficit to French club Auxerre in the quarter-finals .
18 I do not rightly understand how the medical men could not save him after the accident since you say the cut seemed small and did not appear to trouble him but I have heard that for the blood to be poisoned it takes only a pin-prick and that a cut where there is manure about can have this effect if not noticed .
19 They perform the function of a rite of passage whereby the reader is enabled not only to glimpse imaginatively the possibility of a reality which transcends the limitations of sense and intellect but also to validate it .
20 In pre-Big Bang times there existed a widespread belief that the then existing regulatory framework was not only propping up an inefficient system but that it was also outmoded and fast becoming inadequate for the protection of investors .
21 And , in the Franks Report on ministerial handling of the conflict , we have an archive which not only shortens dramatically the interval before the normal release of classified information but goes considerably further than any disclosures at the end of the statutory thirty years in the amount of intelligence material displayed .
22 This incident was an isolated one , but it served to highlight the overlap between the possible measures of performance that had been considered ; an undetected error not only slowed down the payment of the expenses , but could also have bought into question the honesty of the individual and thus affected the status of the section head .
23 There should be time not only to carry out the patient care but also to discuss and evaluate it .
24 The researchers have therefore not only separated out the effects of gluons from those due to quarks , but have also learned something about the still little understood way in which these building blocks turn into conventional particles .
25 ( a ) Unregistered land Recitals to a conveyance can be very useful , not only to describe briefly the reason for the deed but also to recite additional information which , owing to the provisions of s45(6) of the Law of Property Act 1925 ( the section providing that a recital 20 years ' old shall be sufficient evidence of the truth of the fact recited unless proved to the contrary ) , might not be readily available later ( for instance , because a copy marriage certificate is mislaid or was not abstracted ) .
26 ‘ The policy of peaceful coexistence … does not only hold back the revolutionary struggle , but promotes its upsurge … the might of the Soviet Union serves as a decisive obstacle in the way of imperialist plans for unleashing a new world war . ’
27 I was able not only to point out the inconsistencies of the so-called ‘ voluntary agreements ’ but also to the confusion in the ranks of the tobacco industry .
28 And David in , that psalm which we read earlier , in psalm twenty three , he paints the picture of how the good shepherd , not only seeks out the lost sheep but once he has brought him back , once he has rescued the , a lost sheep , he care for it .
29 During the past two days we have heard a vast number of contributions and I pay tribute to the common sense and foresight of Labour Members who have not only pointed out the inequalities of the system that is still in being but the pitfalls that we see ahead of us .
30 When I checked up on his progress I was startled to find that he had not only planted up the four pots but his red wellington boots as well , liberally watering both them and himself and then garnishing with sprigs of a semi-dormant fuchsia as a finishing touch .
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