Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , at the end of a year when insufficient Terminal courses had been provided to use up all available Ministry grant , he commented that ‘ we may find it increasingly difficult to resist a reduction in the number of tutor-organisers we now employ , let alone claim a further appointment , if additional Terminal courses are not successfully organised in both established and new centres ’ . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , there are clear signs of the continued exemption of Hitler from blame and the belief — as it happens not altogether misplaced in this particular case — that he had had nothing to do with the ‘ action ’ and would disapprove of it . |
| 3 | The world is not altogether reformed by cheap tours , nor is the inherent vulgarity of the British Philistine going to be eradicated by sending him with a through ticket and a bundle of hotel coupons to Egypt and the Holy Land … |
| 4 | The wrongful sale of goods subject to a hire-purchase agreement will constitute a repudiation and hence vest a right to immediate possession in the finance company even though the agreement does not expressly provide for this . |
| 5 | But in one or two areas the corporate development is not wholly related to these . |
| 6 | In this he was mistaken , since state control over industry was considerably reduced once the war was over , even if it did not wholly return to pre-war conditions . |
| 7 | In Gyford 's words , ‘ in this inter-war period , municipal and national politics were not wholly assimilated into one another … |
| 8 | The Prime Minister is right — the Government are not wholly to blame for this recession , but they are chiefly to blame . |
| 9 | Robespierre 's experiment was , scarcely surprisingly , a dismal failure ; and while the delicious dream of a universal , natural and reasonable religion may have an understandable attraction for those who are influenced by but not wholly committed to Christian ( or some other ) belief , it does not appear capable of offering any very stable resting-place , or any adequate defence against the more radical challenges to religion as such which have been raised from without and within Christian theology in modern times . |
| 10 | [ *Pollidori also informs us : ‘ Liability to possession arises from Original Sin not wholly effaced by inadequate Baptism … and sometimes from other sins , great or small . |
| 11 | If the Secretary of State believes that he can get rid of tariffs , why does he support the Common Market , now known as the European Community — that big business club which is essentially a conspiracy against the working class and is certainly not wholeheartedly supported on this side of the House ? |
| 12 | Horse races on the sands of Leith have been recorded as early as 1504 but were not properly organized until 1665 , when the town council took charge . |
| 13 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 14 | The intention in London is to create a focused display , designed to show aspects of French art not widely represented in British collections . |
| 15 | However , the association of fibrous thyroditis with other sites of fibrosis was not widely noted until 1962 when Hache reported an association with retroperitoneal fibrosis and Woolner an association with sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 16 | Although awarded seven marks apiece — making them weedier than that old stalwart , the creeping thistle — they are not widely viewed as potential threats . |
| 17 | However , they are not widely distributed in gastrointestinal epithelia . |
| 18 | Although the process was not widely practised for forty years , the discovery was the crucial step in the mass production of iron for industry , and facilitated the development of the steam engine . |
| 19 | The term ‘ curriculum ’ is generally understood but not widely used in higher education ; academics are more likely to speak of undergraduate studies in terms of courses , programmes , syllabuses/syllabi or content . |
| 20 | Therefore Kirknewton is not badly served by local bus services in comparison with Ratho . |
| 21 | Voters do not instinctively turn to Labour in time of trouble . |
| 22 | But it also strained credulity to believe that any sort of war where any sort of nuclear weapons were available would not eventually lead to full-scale atomic destruction . |
| 23 | Insofar as English law requires the directors to take into account the interests of groups other than the shareholders it adopts the position that these interests do not fundamentally conflict with those of the shareholders and that it is therefore possible to arrive at a decision that balances all the relevant interests , subsuming them under or subordinating them to the vaguely defined collective goal of the organization . |
| 24 | However , if the right is not commercially exploited within 15 years of the creation of the topography , the right expires 15 years from the time the topography was first recorded in a design document or the time when an article was first made to the design , whichever is the earlier . |
| 25 | ‘ She is not big headed at all , ’ he says . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , there was an insubstantial public reaction to these upsurges in recorded crime , and public opinion was not effectively mobilised around these issues in any significant ‘ law-and-order ’ campaign . |
| 27 | Turning now to policy , it seems clear that a prohibitions-based or per se illegality form of legislation can not effectively deal with tacit collusion . |
| 28 | When moving around the surface of the Earth , one can not fail to be impressed by the diversity of all that one sees , and it is easy to imagine that there is an infinite complexity of different ‘ things ’ not apparently related to one another . |
| 29 | We have also encountered patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in France who were not apparently linked to any previously described ethnogeographic cluster of this mutation but bore it , suggesting the existence of separate foci . |
| 30 | Vial did not apparently introduce for some time any regular system of instruction which would have concentrated the labours of the students . |