Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [not/n't] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the assistance that is increasingly forthcoming from ordinary members of both sides of the community , they will resolutely and successfully pursue not just those who carry out terrorist attacks but also those who plan them . |
| 2 | Truths of geometry can be proved , and so known not only to be true but also to be necessarily true . |
| 3 | In practice , that rarely happened because , they said , people from Awlad Amira and from Jlulat were travelling in a vast area and so did not often meet ; and because , knowing that all Jlulat would unite , Amira refrained from attack , and vice versa . |
| 4 | It is irrelevant that , so far as the employees are concerned , they are working in the same premises with the same equipment and on the same job as before the sale and perhaps have not even been informed that a sale has taken place ( Woodhouse v Peter Brotherhood Ltd [ 1972 ] 2 QB 520 ; Woodcock v Committee for the Time Being of the Friends School Wigton and Genwise Ltd [ 1987 ] IRLR 98 , CA ) . |
| 5 | He made no announcement until 19 October , and perhaps did not even close his own mind until no more than a week earlier , but on 3 October , the same day that the Italian attack was eventually launched , he went to Bournemouth and for the first time in seven years addressed the Conservative Party Conference . |
| 6 | From some remarks in Sir Alfred Ayer 's autobiography ( Part of my Life Vol. 1 , 1978 ) , it seems that the two met infrequently and perhaps did not altogether get on . |
| 7 | He was and fiercely opposed not only to the Shah 's monarchism but also to his foreign policy . |
| 8 | Large sums of money were missing from the business , and while his colleagues now realised that her father was ill — and obviously had n't deliberately intended to commit any kind of fraud — nevertheless , the money had had to be replaced as quickly as possible . |
| 9 | The gardener Thomas Knowlton was more of a plantsman and obviously did not really enjoy digging the lakes or ‘ canals ’ as he called them . |
| 10 | We can look at these and easily see not only an increase nationally over time but also big differences between local authorities . |
| 11 | It is hoped that these state-ments of principle will over time influence national courts by persuading them to look beyond their own , or indeed any one , legal system , particularly where the dispute is international and thus does not readily respond to national laws designed primarily for domestic transactions . |
| 12 | But more important , she realized that the gesture was available to all and thus did not really belong to her : when she waved her arm , she was actually committing theft or forgery . |
| 13 | This would have been impossible with the yoke-harness , because as soon as the horse begins to pull with it the neck-strap presses on the animal 's windpipe and thus tends not only to restrict the flow of blood to its head , but also to suffocate it ! |
| 14 | It is also the case that people who live with financial anxieties , poor health , and insecurity of employment income and accommodation are rarely happy and usually suffer not only from the actual privations of poverty or homelessness but also from a demoralizing sense of failure . |
| 15 | Local gossips noted that her husband , Darnley , did not appear in Jedburgh until the crisis was over ; and then , incensed by the attendant nobles ' cool reception , he stayed only one night and possibly did not even visit Mary . |
| 16 | Charles was not inclined to look too hard at what he was giving away in the charters he issued , and he issued two charters , one to the Earl of Carlisle and one to Sir William Courteen , which covered the same islands , probably because people in England did not know much about the geography of the area and possibly did not much care . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , yes , I knew you did n't trust me and probably do n't now . |
| 18 | After the Leeds Congress Maginn was plainly a disappointed man and probably did not altogether approve of the BDDA 's leadership . |
| 19 | If a horse is very spooky and really does not ever settle down , there is a possibility that he may have defective eye-sight . |
| 20 | Gill-nets are also generally much less selective than most other fishing methods , and often catch not just marine mammals but many other non-target fish species . |
| 21 | They paid the Greeks to teach them their wisdom and often did not even have to pay because they were their slaves . |
| 22 | And today has n't exactly been a barrel of laughs . |
| 23 | Presumably not the minor detail that young Anne was a designing little minx who married Henry in cold blood to further her own ambitions — and then did n't even have the sense or decency to stand by her bargain . ’ |
| 24 | Unlike a scoria cone though , a pumice cone is usually rather low and poorly defined , and sometimes does not even have a recognizable crater . |
| 25 | If there are structural weaknesses in the German constitution and German political life , they perhaps lie halfway between these two remarks , namely that there is an excessive domination of the parties in the political process who fail to bring political discussion sufficiently into the open and consequently do not always offer the electorate a real choice . |
| 26 | This has been used in space and conveniently produces not only electricity but also water . |
| 27 | ‘ It will no doubt be in only the rare instance that a man does not consider the possibility that the woman is not consenting , and yet does not actually believe that she is . |
| 28 | Rural communities in Wales or the North of England , Italian immigrant communities in London , or Pakistani communities in Rochdale , working-class communities in Bethnal Green or Liverpool , French Canadians in Quebec ; all these patterns and many others can be said to exist within industrial societies and yet do not clearly conform to the model presented earlier . |
| 29 | " Slips of the pen " happen more often than we might suppose and certainly do not necessarily indicate carelessness , idleness or ignorance . |
| 30 | A tragedy for the customers of all the banks , mostly French these days , that have substantial funds tied up financing IBM mainframes on the assumption of residual values that are emphatically no longer justified , and therefore do n't now have that money available to finance new and promising businesses . |