Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a Devonian stage in Canada may be 10 000 feet thick and a Jurassic stage in Sicily may be thinner than its characteristic ammonites , we can not altogether ignore sheer size . |
| 2 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 3 | Debbie Jones , who co-ordinated the SSD 's response , describes the forms as a blunt instrument which do not properly measure disabled children 's progress . |
| 4 | Its view of corporate governance is rather limited and it does not properly address corporate governance as the network of accountability relationships that exists between stakeholders in a company . |
| 5 | Qualities that might generate and recoup excellent work in the classroom ( including , for instance , risk-taking , creativity , originality , the valuing of independence and initiative , a questioning and critical approach , etc. , none of which appear on the DES 's own list ) might not most endear new teachers to their colleagues ; and qualities like ‘ tidy appearance ’ that may be essential for staffroom acceptance may be relatively unimportant to children . |
| 6 | Their experiments were criticised because they had not rigorously excluded unconscious cues that might have been provided by the human trainers , as in the case of the famous German horse , Clever Hans . |
| 7 | This means , among other things , that the electoral system should be one that does not effectively disenfranchise large sections of the citizenry , while at the same time it must produce a government that will be both effective and accountable . |
| 8 | It argued that without them : it would not be possible , in practice , to operate a system of resale price maintenance because it would be impracticable for each publisher to specify his own conditions of sale ; booksellers would find it impossible to comply with all the varied terms imposed by different publishers ; booksellers would lose their assurance that they were not being undercut ; and the Association itself could not effectively monitor individual resale agreements . |
| 9 | The closed conformation in this latter structure does not apparently have torsion-angle train , as judged from the stereo diagram of the active centre . |
| 10 | With mind all is opposite ; minds are not substantial , do not apparently obey physical laws , can not be directly observed or inspected , unless it is my own mind that is in question . |
| 11 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 12 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 13 | Anthropology for Eliot did not remake the myths , but showed how they had , while becoming the possessions of high culture , transmitted and not entirely transmuted primitive origins . |
| 14 | Yet the portrayal of sexual violence , combined with Emilia 's protest , leaves the impression that the conclusion does not entirely resolve thematic contradictions . |
| 15 | The overall impression of similarity can not entirely mask significant differences between these districts . |
| 16 | No , I think that we had a fairly clear idea , certainly on the pension fund , we 've not obviously got accurate numbers , a clear idea of the broad er , shape of , of the problems and erm , that allowed us , without having to wait for very accurate figures , to draw the conclusions about the scale of the problem , the amount of investment we 'd like to , we need to make and thus erm , whether or not it was of interest to pursue . |
| 17 | But by the time Parasites Of Heaven was written an intensely negative aspect is unveiled : ‘ The nightmares do not suddenly develop happy endings , I merely step out of them . ’ |
| 18 | He wanted runners in his pack , so Neath — Waldron 's club , as his antagonists accusingly pointed out — came into vogue even though the evidence was swiftly adduced that outstanding club players do not necessarily make adequate internationals . |
| 19 | There is utter and total confusion and anything that stands still they used to say they would paint it in industry they now say market test it and they do admit to us that the end object does not necessarily mean complete contractorization or privatization , but at this particular moment in time |
| 20 | But rough justice on one side of the green line does not necessarily mean rough justice on the other . |
| 21 | But rough justice on one side of the green line does not necessarily mean rough justice on the other . |
| 22 | The same applies to the situation between nations : inequalities between developed countries have not declined but this does not necessarily mean wholesale rejection of the basic claims that a certain level of education is a necessary prerequisite to industrialisation . |
| 23 | I had nothing to do with the financial side of the firm , and big output does not necessarily mean big profit . ’ |
| 24 | Mrs , you state that Open land does not necessarily mean open countryside . |
| 25 | This does not necessarily mean sick animals — many are perfectly healthy , just unwanted . |
| 26 | A shared language between parents and professionals did not necessarily mean shared attitudes . |
| 27 | Having AIDS does not necessarily mean constant sickness . |
| 28 | Processing large batches meant that firms tended to split programming from machine operating , but not necessarily to create separate departments for programming . |
| 29 | Also , much practice is based on what was learnt from teaching and vocational training subsequently modified by experience , but does not necessarily reflect current knowledge in all areas — for example , many continue to give repeated routine examination in shared antenatal care . |
| 30 | Holman stresses that lack of contact did not necessarily reflect parental wishes ( in fact nearly half of the parents wanted their children back ) , but parents felt they were being tacitly excluded by the agency . |