Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the Leeds Congress Maginn was plainly a disappointed man and probably did not altogether approve of the BDDA 's leadership . |
| 2 | No body , no individual may exercise authority which does not expressly emanate from the Nation . ’ |
| 3 | Although reduced feed consumption and diarrhoea affect liveweight gain they do not wholly account for the loss in production . |
| 4 | I believe that the House should insist er that the not only should th should be a majority o of local of of of local authority members , but these so-called independent members are really quite superfluous to requirements they are p they are creating another kind of semi-quango , they are concentrating more power into the hands of the Home Secretary and for that reason , although I do not wholly agree with the amendments that have been put down , I shall certainly vote for them all . |
| 5 | If the meaning of an utterance does not wholly reside in the semantic meaning , and if people can mean quite different things with the same words , how do human beings interpret — usually quite accurately — what is meant from what is said ? |
| 6 | Although I do not wholeheartedly agree with the view the author takes of the mechanical world of the train being somehow better than that of nature , I can still find it interesting and thought inducing from a philosophical angle . |
| 7 | It follows that , strictly , we can not justifiably speak of the " same propositions " , or the " same concepts " . |
| 8 | If the period of historic relevance is measured in hundreds of years , then even periodic recopying and migration to new generations of hardware will not effectively provide for the preservation of information long enough to meet historians ’ long-term needs . |
| 9 | Oh let's not all talk at the same time ! |
| 10 | Already , too , one may see the start of a symbiotic relationship in which France would increasingly depend upon American resources to achieve purposes which , left to herself , would be beyond her , while American objectives , although they did not entirely coincide with the French and for all the power which they would ultimately deploy , had to include France as a frail but , for the moment , indispensable means by which they might be attained . |
| 11 | This does not entirely square with the view that politicians are potentially too ‘ knavish ’ to make decisions of any importance , but it was , I suspect , near the mark . |
| 12 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 13 | People did not suddenly rush into the shops to spend more money on books because the Government said that staff had to be paid more . |
| 14 | Those that carry the same names as overseas beers are produced under licence and do not necessarily adhere to the recipe or strength of the original . |
| 15 | Anyway , since the English language , not unlike its speakers , and the climate in which it was reared , did not necessarily adhere to the principles of predictability , even had the thought of the good Earl occurred to me , I may st ill not have surmised that it gave proof positive one way or the other re the acceptable pronunciation of the Square 's Christian name . |
| 16 | The keyword LAST-CHECKED-ISSUE does not necessarily relate to the CHECKED-BY keyword in the MODIFICATIONS-RECORDS field of the module referenced , but is purely for the user 's information . |
| 17 | A charter party did not necessarily attest to the ownership of the goods shipped because the charterer might not have been a shipper , but merely a lessor of space . |
| 18 | Though a number of economists have made further assumptions about the behaviour of the economy — principally , that firms will substitute labour for capital if there is unemployment ( because in those circumstances real wages will fall ) — which remove some of the apparent instabilities , others have concluded that the instability still occurs because the actual rate of investment may still not necessarily coincide with the warranted rate of growth for full employment . |
| 19 | Such deterioration may not necessarily result from the proclamation of commitment . |
| 20 | Changes of emphasis within art education , which have arisen out of a realization that the skills of response and appreciation do not necessarily result from the practice of art , have led to explorations into the nature of aesthetic experience , enquiries into its patterns of development and attempts to assess the skills and achievements possible within this area ( APU , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | The terms ‘ old age ’ and ‘ retirement ’ are often used interchangeably , but they do not necessarily refer to the same things . |
| 22 | A final point to bear in mind is that givenness is assigned by the speaker and , as such , does not necessarily correlate with the reality of the linguistic or extra-linguistic situation . |
| 23 | Although the courts do have wide powers to re-allocate property and can require an ex-husband to take out life assurance , such arrangements do not necessarily compensate for the loss of an index-linked widow 's pension in old age or a lump sum and widow 's pension payable on a husband 's death in service . |
| 24 | The results of delegation of power from LEA to schools need not necessarily lead to the sorts of negative effects for teachers outlined above . |
| 25 | It might even come to be accepted that the discovery of flaws in the original investigation need not necessarily lead to the dropping of charges but may , instead , strengthen the case against the suspect through discovery of fresh evidence or by plugging of gaps in the original investigation . |
| 26 | The course writer 's patterning , whether overt or covert , does not necessarily lead to the patterning he intends the learner to produce . |
| 27 | The government had the right to control private investment in the interests of society , and Courtauld agreed with Beveridge that to surrender this freedom would not necessarily lead to the erosion of others . |
| 28 | One of the difficulties in making the diagnosis of ME — which is a post viral syndrome with a multiplicity of symptoms — is that sufferers do not necessarily present with the same symptoms ; however the film showed most graphically how the entire family is affected by such a misunderstood illness . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In general , it is more difficult to trace adoption breakdown than foster home breakdown , as the families concerned will not necessarily return to the agencies involved in the original placement . |