Example sentences of "not [adj] [vb infin] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Traditionally bureaucracy has been described as a role culture , but there is no reason to suppose that the different cultures can not all exist within the same organisation particularly if the organisation is as large and diverse as a government department or a local authority . |
2 | Naturally , the distinction is not as clear-cut as these simple definitions imply : current items do not all disappear on the initial day of consumption ; and neither do all capital items last for generations . |
3 | Heating systems have to be balanced so that water does not all flow through the radiators closest to the pump . |
4 | And they do not all rotate in the same mode . |
5 | Unfortunately , the sources of information do not all appear at the same time . |
6 | Organizations do not all subscribe to the marketing concept . |
7 | With most sentences , particularly non-observational sentences , no clear answer will emerge because the natives will not all behave in the same way in the same conditions . |
8 | A number of possible causes have been advanced to explain stratospheric O 3 reductions following large volcanic eruptions ( although these may not all apply to the tropics ) . |
9 | Learners do not all develop at the same speed in the same way . |
10 | So selective breeding has played havoc with the natural coat of the cat , producing types of animal that would not all thrive in the wild today . |
11 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
12 | They do not all live on the savannah , of course ; hippos prefer rivers and many of the antelope ( bongo , duikers ) prefer forest , as do elephants when it is available . |
13 | They do not all live in the same place , but in any one place there may be more than one , and perhaps half a dozen , species . |