Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 2 | The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards . |
| 3 | But the mass media select which events to cover and they take decisions about how those events will be presented ; they therefore not only inform us about ( a small selection of ) events but their presentation of those events will also consist of their explanations and interpretations of those events . |
| 4 | This not only reminds us of the existence of a non-state section of education ( which as we write in mid-1987 seems set only to increase in size ) , but also in drawing attention to the relations between the state and non-state sectors , points out features of the conditions under which the former operates that are frequently taken for granted . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course , we have to make sure they are not just using us for cannon fodder , ’ she says . |
| 6 | However , it follows at once that they do not strictly present us with a distinct adjective position , but just a special case of the predicative adjective already discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 7 | Patricia Knapp , in the United States , once commented that one could get a perfectly good liberal education from a paperback bookshop : the sense in which this is true must not however blind us to the fact that self-learning of this kind has its weaknesses , is unreliable , and depends very much on the way in which the student undertakes his task . |
| 8 | This should not however blind us to its reappearance . |
| 9 | To recognise the continuing validity of such questions can not however exempt us from attempting to construct and share in a growing body of expertise . |
| 10 | He had n't just met us in Thunder Bay . |
| 11 | Conflict does n't just involve us in disputations with others . |
| 12 | He does n't just provide us with a general description , he puts forward more significant details and makes us visualise clearly and lets us see for ourselves what it was like . |
| 13 | He does n't see us as a part of a crowd , he does n't see us as a number on a computer , he does n't see us as numbers on a bank account , or in some other organizational er er er computer set up or whatever it is , he does n't just see us as that he sees us as individuals . |
| 14 | But the banning did n't really affect us in any way . |
| 15 | ‘ That pulled us out of trading losses , but it still did n't really get us into a healthy trading position , ’ Tony Harrison recalls . |
| 16 | did n't even last us into New |