Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I am not arguing that the Americans do not themselves engage in all manner of protectionist devices , but merely note that they do at least have an intrinsic belief in the benefits of Adam Smith 's hidden hand , a view which is not wholly shared on the Continent of Europe . ) |
| 2 | Its not right to experiment on the saturday . |
| 3 | It 's not entirely focused on the appraisee , you know cos I think |
| 4 | Whether a particular level of credit payments should be seen as high or not obviously depends on the consumer 's income . |
| 5 | Its success is not necessarily based on the number of convictions ; often , it is based on the number of assaults and atrocities that are prevented by the questioning of certain people . |
| 6 | Similarly , children may seize on different suffixes or constructions as marking a contrast , but not necessarily hit on the conventional contrast used by adult speakers . |
| 7 | Equally , we should remark that the interpretation of an adjective as associative does not necessarily depend on the existence of a noun from which the adjective can be seen as derived . |
| 8 | Creatures were not necessarily placed on the earth in the form in which they appeared now . |
| 9 | 79/80 class lists are included with these notes where they were not personally collected on the 21st June . |
| 10 | But in both cases the pre-raid recces were not much help on the night , for Milner-Gibson 's compass failed and the German dispositions on Guernsey were changed by the time of the raid . |
| 11 | Not much rose on the Tees at Stockton in those days , least of all trout ; and a ducking was followed by a dash to hospital and an appointment with a stomach pump . |
| 12 | These connections suggest that what a woman says about housework at the beginning of her interview does not only reflect on the mode of feeling-expression general in her class-specific linguistic code . |
| 13 | One local authority in tackling the problem of odour nuisance from maggot farms in their area not only insisted on the installation of catalytic incineration equipment but on disposal of the sawdust waste , which still contained some maggots after sieving , by bagging and subsequent incineration in the municipal incinerator , instead of burying the waste as had been done previously . |
| 14 | Instructions should not only advise on the method of use but also indicate the product limitations and the checks and controls that can be applied to make sure that those limitations are not exceeded . |
| 15 | The hierarchy of a church is important in the libidinal ties in churches , for they do not only rest on the love of the abstract figure of Christ , but on living people who are his priests , bishops and ministers in the various groups . |
| 16 | The goldfish can not only spy on the fair-red secrets of our world , but its vision extends through the spectrum to shorter wavelength ultraviolet radiation , making it receptive to a wider band of light than almost any other animal . |
| 17 | Also and who not only helped on the day but also promoted the sale outside the NCT ensuring that we had plenty to sell . |
| 18 | Such failures are not only reflected on the score board — Scotland could well have turned round at 16–10 — but also in the morale of the side . |
| 19 | First , the notion of ‘ usability ’ leads us not only to focus on the eventual users of the information for whom , presumably , companies are investing significant amounts of money on more or less elaborate information-processing systems and structures . |
| 20 | attention should not only focus on the workplace . |
| 21 | As Isard ( 1975 : 377 ) remarks : ‘ communications do not merely depend on the context for their interpretation , they change that context ’ . |
| 22 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 23 | I join the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare ( Mr. Wiggin ) in pointing out that the Inland Waterways Association believes that it was not sufficiently consulted on the Bill . |
| 24 | Have we not already witnessed on the television his Scargill-type debate on the floor of the House during MPs ' Question Time ? |
| 25 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 26 | In more complex animals , consistencies are not easily found on the surface and many of us feel the need to postulate structural regularity beneath the surface if we are to make sense of what we see . |
| 27 | That 's generally if they both desire integration so it 's not just done on the part of one person . |
| 28 | Be aware of the organisational context of work and not just concentrate on the job itself ( Herzberg ) . |
| 29 | The less attractive males , however , do not just sit on the sidelines . |
| 30 | Erm , I , I think sometimes if he 's prepared to talk about such things as this , he should be prepared to consider the advantages to villages of , of small schools , and not just work on the financial item . |