Example sentences of "this [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length .
2	This did not in practice apply to landless labourers or peasants with very little land , a large and growing element in the rural population ; but if it had been put into effect it would none the less have been the most sweeping social legislation seen anywhere in old regime Europe .
3	This did not in fact happen , but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap .
4	As a result when I awoke there was no positive proof that all this had not in fact happened , and that it did not belong to a mental lapse from which I had recovered .
5	This does not of necessity call for a middle way between the extremes of egalitarianism on the one hand and élitism on the other .
6	This does not of course , apply to Yagi antennas , which are more or less unidirectional .
7	They can establish , at least , that the author is an authority on the subject — though this does not of course necessarily guarantee the quality of the end product .
8	This does not of course mean that the subjects concerned were psychotic , in a clinical sense .
9	Only one stitch pattern at a time can be downloaded from DesignaKnit to the knitting machine and any patterns currently in the memory of the knitting machine will be erased ( this does not of course apply to the built in Stitch World patterns which can not be erased ) .
10	This does not of course mean that management control has detrimental effects in all companies , since that would be to ignore the significance of management values , and in any case the extent to which managers benefit from pursuing non-profit goals is unclear .
11	This does not in fact happen , but in other kinds of social system people do not even pretend that it happens .

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