Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little doubt that the coalition was returned to power mainly on Unionist votes , although this was not widely recognized at the time ; the Unionists had never won so many votes before , and it was perhaps natural to attribute their success to their new asset . |
| 2 | This galloping course will suit his action and he is not badly treated at the weights on his best form . |
| 3 | They were not all written at the same time , or in that order : I had to keep struggling to write my own work as Dana 's poetic demands became more and more insistent . |
| 4 | Oh let's not all talk at the same time ! |
| 5 | Police have said the men were not necessarily killed at the same time . |
| 6 | The team usually comprises a number of subject specialists who either build up major collections in their specializations ( often , but not necessarily located at the central library ) or allocate titles to appropriate service points throughout the authority . |
| 7 | Who can actually fight the war , and I 'm just wondering , politically is it going to be a good idea to knowingly , not necessarily aim at the general population , but in the process of taking out the targets , extend it to the general population , well what do you think of that ? |
| 8 | It is not enough to look at the company 's accounts : the nature of the market , the stance of competitors , likely technological changes have all to be considered . |
| 9 | This is the ‘ truest cause ’ of Thuc. i.23 , a famous and deeply original statement which is the first conscious attempt to develop a theory of historical causation : ‘ The truest cause ’ , he says , ‘ was one not much admitted at the time : it was the growth of Athenian power , which frightened the Spartans and forced them to war . |
| 10 | Moreover , this skilled incompetence not only operates at the individual level , it permeates the entire organisational culture as well . |
| 11 | One of the most important areas of credit management is risk assessment , not only looking at the individual customer companies concerned , but also at the current financial background in which they operate . |
| 12 | The ability to organise a classroom , a group or an individual child , to structure experience so that learning not only occurs at the moment of teaching but remains ; the sensitivity to perceive the world from a child 's perspective , the understanding to build for tomorrow upon the child 's present , and to know and appreciate a child 's weaknesses and strengths — these are the skills which are the basis for a teacher 's claim to ‘ professionalism ’ . |
| 13 | If you have decided not only to start at the starboard end , but also to tack onto port as soon as possible , then a different set of priorities apply . |
| 14 | The notes that have been prepared for us go over er , rather briefly the legal systems in our land , and er , even references made to France , which has a slightly different legal system , which may be a bit better than ours and so that , in the notes , we not only look at the High Court , the High Court , the Criminal Court , the County Court er er , and realise what an important part of legal proceedings er , these courts fair , as well of course , as the largest courts of all , , the Magistrate 's Court . |
| 15 | ‘ For instance , as far as nature and wildlife is concerned , there are parks , nature reserves , wildlife centres , aquariums , beaches and waterfalls that are not only aimed at the tourist but at local people too , ’ he added . |
| 16 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 17 | He 's not exactly thrilled at the prospect himself . |
| 18 | My paper was rather mathematical , however , so its implications for the role of God in the creation of the universe were not generally recognized at the time ( just as well for me ) . |
| 19 | This was a condition not easily achieved at the Physic Garden because , Miller added , ‘ we have very little loam within a favourable distance ’ . |
| 20 | All three features are designed to convey that Henry is not just looking at the roots but reflecting on them and struggling to think what it is they bring to mind . |
| 21 | The best way to counter trespass is to put up waymarks , so rights of way should be properly signposted , not just marked at the edge of the road . |
| 22 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
| 23 | Similarly , you should not just look at the eyes or ears when there may be a problem here . |
| 24 | I hope that , in his discussions with the Treasury , the Minister will not just look at the statistics that he quotes with monotonous regularity , and I guess with some justification , about average incomes , but that he will say that some people below that average have real problems . |
| 25 | all different meanings of the wor but can you not just look at the dictionary and read the dictionary ? |
| 26 | It was clear from this that people 's anger was not just directed at the dangers of the technology , but at the centralized military-industrial complex which had imposed it . |
| 27 | For practical reasons , the subjects of these articles are not normally kept at the average stockists , but they are available , so some research into the lists was called for . |
| 28 | Since these presuppositions that are the basis of knowledge are not normally recognized at the conscious level , an individual does not normally ‘ affiliate ’ to them with a conscious and intentional act . |
| 29 | This section of the policy does not apply if the Policyholder 's wife/husband does not normally live at the same address as the Policyholder e.g. if Policyholder and wife are separated . |
| 30 | Furthermore , and perhaps more importantly from the point of view of answering the sceptics , even though we can not directly get at the hidden real natures of things , perhaps our knowledge of appearances will enable us to do so indirectly . |