Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It offended nobody but like most policies which achieve that result , it did not greatly please anyone either . |
| 2 | If you are keeping very healthy and do become pregnant , the pregnancy will not necessarily make you more ill or encourage sickness . |
| 3 | Some applications for adjournment are made ex parte on filing written consent of all parties but reason for the adjournment is expected to be given , and the court may not necessarily grant it even if all parties consent . |
| 4 | Talking to people directly involved , such as your ex-boyfriend , will not necessarily help you any further . |
| 5 | Naturally , I went to see Buckingham Palace , not dreaming on that occasion that I would not only see it again but actually enter the premises . |
| 6 | To grasp the meaning of a handshake we must not only see it positively as located in a greeting ceremonial , that is in a sequence of actions identified with respect to the social act they accomplish , but we must also see it negatively , as excluding certain alternatives and possibilities of action . |
| 7 | Multiple record buckets can not be handled in this way , as groups of records that randomize to the same bucket do not generally have anything else in common , so that the whole bucket has to be searched to see if the desired record is in it . |
| 8 | Well , I might not just want it there . |
| 9 | When we need to forgive someone else we know we can not just forget it right away , but we can certainly say it is not on file against them any more . |
| 10 | They could not still want her now . |
| 11 | Amphibians in the wild are food for so many other animals that it is not surprising that they do not always show themselves well even in confinement . |
| 12 | She knew you could not possibly manage it all on your own . |
| 13 | But I felt I could not possibly meet him again . |
| 14 | You could not be afraid of it , you could not possibly fear something so delicate and so insubstantial . |
| 15 | It was as if a woman who thus lowered herself disowned her right to be considered a person , a soul ; as if it would be no sin to take advantage of her lust because one could not possibly soil her any further . |
| 16 | ‘ I have to admit it would not unduly burden him financially , ’ said Babcock . |
| 17 | Another survivor , who had no fewer than three sisters already in the trade , did not automatically follow them either . |
| 18 | We can describe them in terms of electrical activity in the brain , but this does not really tell us much . |
| 19 | Many of these depend on rather sophisticated biochemical arguments which do not really concern me here ; just two must suffice . |
| 20 | The principal faced with a troubled or disruptive child can not simply send him someplace else . |
| 21 | The calf was sold long ago , and she would not even recognize it now if it ambled into the yard . |
| 22 | She could not even say she truly felt she had had Ferdinando with her those four months . |
| 23 | She might not trust Guy Sterne , she might not even like him very much , she might suspect him of being a ruthless womaniser and profiteer … but she wanted him here , with her … now where was the logic in that ? |
| 24 | You do not even need anything as obvious as a party to start you on this slippery slope . |
| 25 | Perhaps because some generals ( particularly Cabanellas and Queipo de Llano ) were unhappy with this outcome , the Defence Committee did not immediately announce it publicly . |
| 26 | Thus whilst transactions cost and contractual rights approaches are capable of considerable insights , and have strong links with delegation and strategic issues which will be discussed later , they do not yet lend themselves very readily to propositions in welfare economics . |
| 27 | Unlike in parts of America , wealth alone can not yet parade itself here as a sole , sufficient mark of human worth . |
| 28 | And you do not yet know what else you are losing . ’ |
| 29 | In general , if you ca n't restate someone else 's ideas in your own words , it is likely that you do not yet understand them sufficiently to be able to make appropriate use of them . |
| 30 | Though he does not actually tell us much about Eddie he tells us that Eddie could be involved in something bloody . |