Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 5 ) In respect of any orders for payment of standard basis costs by the plaintiffs to the defendants that have already been made it is , as we understand it , common ground that the court was not thereby purporting to deprive the defendants of any costs which they were contractually entitled to add to their security . |
| 2 | In posing these questions I am not necessarily wanting to provide the answers , and it may be that there are no simple answers to some of these questions . |
| 3 | A workshop with one machinist who carefully adjusts and sets the machine up and leaves it that way at the end of the job is not necessarily going to need the heaviest equipment . |
| 4 | I have I have read it elsewhere and not necessarily having read the doc the whole of the document of the Leeds U D P but on that note , since Leeds leads would you like |
| 5 | But the Indonesian authorities are not only trying to control the rate at which the Timorese breed — they also want to dictate where they live . |
| 6 | The problem is not only having to write the report but burdening countless other people with the chore of reading the bloody thing . |
| 7 | Not only walking to do the shopping but walking to work when men would have to get up at 4.0 a.m. with , in some cases , an hour 's walk to get to work . |
| 8 | In such a theory the state is seen as not merely helping to reproduce the capitalist system in contradictory ways , but as being itself shaped by the class struggle which results from those contradictions . |
| 9 | I am not merely trying to preserve the tradition of my country . |
| 10 | And it may have still seemed a lot of money at I think one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds , I ca n't comment or not not having seen the size of the estate , but it compares quite well with the five thousand one hundred and sixty sixty pound Five hu Five thousand seven hundred and sixteen pounds that the Midland bank charge on the particular estate . |
| 11 | I am not just trying to extol the virtues of a well-managed filtration system , nor should I need to , but this is an actual necessity to maintain Siamese Tigers at their best . |
| 12 | But it is not just trying to get the recipient to learn the ad by rote : it is , surely , trying to give information — persuasive information — about the product , so that the consumer will prefer it to its competitors and buy it . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not just trying to make the final . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope this Tory government 's change of heart is genuine and that they are not just trying to pass the buck . |
| 15 | They are not normally going to bite the hand that feeds them . |
| 16 | With the best will in the world , the library is not always going to have the book on its shelves that the student is after ; and nor are members of staff always going to be available to answer students ' enquiries . |
| 17 | In October 1984 , The Economist , remarkably enough , committed itself to the view that ‘ Mrs Thatcher is not now going to win the miners ’ strike outright . ’ |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the longer you look , the more the qualities and character of the tomb become apparent and the clearer it is that the architect was not simply trying to imitate the Taj and failing . |
| 19 | ‘ My mother sends you her — her regards , ’ she muttered , for some reason not even wanting to say the word ‘ love ’ . |
| 20 | And now you 're not even going to get the chance to stay overnight . ’ |
| 21 | Here the paraphrase would be " how he longed to see this sunlight once before he died ! " , but the fact remains that the person designated by he in this example is felt as not yet having attained the realization of " seeing the sunlight once more " , i.e. as being before this event in time . |
| 22 | I also remember thinking at the time that dressing like a white man and taking a white man 's name was n't ever going to hide the Apache in him . |
| 23 | We were n't also having to create the idea and the reason for the band 's existence . |