Example sentences of "[verb] not [adv] affect the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 These religious tensions go a long way towards explaining why the party divide cut so deep into society : political strife during the first age of party did not just affect the political elite at the centre and a minority of the more affluent and better-educated classes in the localities , but all sorts of people , including those of fairly humble backgrounds , women as well as men , were caught up in the party divide .
2 Actually , road casualties at the Llandrindod Wells lake did not significantly affect the overall breeding potential , and warning signs have encouraged drivers to slow down .
3 ‘ Building operations ’ , for instance , include rebuilding operations , structural alterations of , or additions to , buildings and , somewhat curiously , ‘ other operations normally undertaken by a person carrying on business as a builder ’ ; but maintenance and improvement works which affect only the interior of the building or which do not materially affect the external appearance of the building are specifically excluded .
4 For , with some qualifications which do not much affect the main point , he suggests that when we give reasons for an ethical statement we are typically making factual claims acceptance of which we hope will cause others to have the attitude it expresses and he distinguishes this sharply from the case where one statement gives some kind of logical or rational support to another .
5 Residential and industrial premises can be extended by up to ten per cent ( in volume terms ) , provided in the latter case that it does not materially affect the external appearance of the premises .
6 This presupposes a form of compartmentation , which does not adversely affect the normal use of the store as a large individual space in which free movement of goods is permitted , yet which can be called into action in the appropriate area as soon as the alarm is given .
7 Thus , this study , which shows that asthmatics dependent on chronic bronchodilator therapy have a prevalence of oesophagitis similar to asthmatics who are not dependent on this , supports the conclusion that long standing use of bronchodilators does not adversely affect the oesophageal mucosa in asthmatics .
8 Note in passing that the actual wavelength in a transmission line is a little less than that in air on account of the dielectric constant of the plastic insulating material but this does not significantly affect the foregoing order of magnitude estimates .
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