Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence Dahl argues against Walker that ‘ he insists upon interpreting as if they were normative or deontological certain writings that were mainly if not wholly intended to set out descriptive empirical theories ’ . |
| 2 | This had left a problem in raising public awareness about the shortage because people saw a lot of nurses ( mainly trainees ) around the RVH ; but they are not all qualified to carry out the work . |
| 3 | Executives who commit corporate crime are not coerced into it , they do not necessarily have to go along with the advice or instructions of superiors . |
| 4 | It does not necessarily have to develop along Western lines to remain democratic . |
| 5 | And of course the one minor consolation is that that kind of trend is not necessarily going to last forever . |
| 6 | You do not necessarily need to take up space by publishing them with the competition but they must be readily available on request . |
| 7 | The workforce has been cut in half to 24,000 and still there is not enough work to go round : some production lines work only a 3-4-day week . |
| 8 | We 've too many men on our books and not enough work to go round . |
| 9 | It follows , then , that the number of different species that can live on any one island is also much smaller than in an equivalent area in equivalent terrain on a continent : there just is not enough resource to maintain sufficiently large populations of lots of different kinds of animal . |
| 10 | Let us not constantly try to talk down the coal industry . |
| 11 | The qualities looked for in a higher civil servant are : intelligence ; fluency of mouth and pen , particularly in producing a persuasive argument and in composing a good ministerial speech ; the capacity to induce other people to carry out a policy that perhaps they do not much wish to carry out ; a political ‘ nose ’ ; the ability ( in a Department or a local or regional office ) to organise those beneath him or her ; and capacity for hard work ( many of those at the top work extremely hard ) . |
| 12 | I said for heaven sake girls , not only trying to cut down on the expensive just because obviously trying to start up on their own . |
| 13 | Kirov not only got to travel freely within military establishments and top security complexes , he was known and respected by important public figures . |
| 14 | The client who was not convinced and pacified by what his dealer said would not only refuse to trade further with him , but would not sleep easy at night , tormented by the thoughts of his investments tossing up and down like a rowing boat in a stormy sea . |
| 15 | If his thinking is right , sharebrokers not only have to trim down now , but be prepared to stay trim . |
| 16 | Again , throwing by hand , throwing stick or catapult , is only as accurate as our individual capabilities and means that we not only have to throw accurately , but also cast accurately — and we must do this in both instances every time we retrieve for another cast . |
| 17 | In this case , the syntactic/semantic component not only has to filter out many improbable word strings , but also to identify the location of possible word errors . |
| 18 | Many church buildings are so austere and fortress-like from the exterior that the visitor not only has to pluck up a great deal of courage , but also has to exert considerable effort to force open the creaking , heavy door . |
| 19 | This remarkable condottiere — the word is pure Italian and does not translate at all well ; it describes a mercenary , but perhaps ‘ soldier of fortune ’ is more polite and catches the flavour better — not only managed to hold on to his head , but to great booty as well . |
| 20 | Eighteen months later , in March 1944 , at a second Chinese-sponsored conference at Liuchow , Ho had not only managed to slip back under the nationalist umbrella of the Dong Minh Hoi but , as one of its representatives , was named as a member of a Provisional Government which was expecting to enter Vietnam in the wake of the ‘ liberating ’ Chinese armies . |
| 21 | Some people not only fail to speak up but talk with their hands wandering to cover their mouths . |
| 22 | I sought to explain to him then and before that we not only need to sort out finance but to get on with distributing the food that they can grow , with the production of the food that they do not grow , and sort out their system of feeding the people . |
| 23 | He 's not only had to pick up technique in racing , he 's had to learn how to train — that 's been the secret , he says . |
| 24 | It was clear then that the staff would not only have to work extremely hard , and be at their most alert , they would also have to be unusually flexible . |
| 25 | In the meantime , Nestorian thought not only continued to survive elsewhere , but displayed an astonishing tenacity . |
| 26 | Katy has not only learned to stay away from her father but has also learned to play by herself . |
| 27 | While these techniques are not sufficiently developed to use in other than a research capacity at present , they offer the hope that , in future , it will be possible to identify asymptomatic individuals by testing their stools against a panel of DNA probes . |
| 28 | It is sometimes said by government officials — I have heard it said by leading members of the administrations of Tanzania , Nigeria , Sierra Leone and Zambia — that African journalists are not sufficiently experienced to tell when an interested party in a dispute may be attempting to put over a particular point of view or discredit a government policy by using the press or radio . |
| 29 | And I am not longer prepared to put up with the various parasitical fringe groups , ranging from the self-importantly irrelevant to the downright obnoxious , who are an unchanging part of the demo scene . |
| 30 | The project did not just aim to find out children 's existing ideas . |