Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Dr Roy Brown estimates that 12,000 hectares of moorland in the North York Moors National Park is not grazed intensively enough because farmers are reducing sheep flocks .
2 Since the opening of the Sterling Commercial Paper ( SCP ) market in 1986 , there have been regular issues but the market has not developed as quickly as national ( as opposed to euro ) commercial paper markets in many other European countries .
3 EASE is the biggest operation by a long way , although electronic selling has not developed as quickly as the ANM Group hoped when it introduced the idea from Canada .
4 Now the illusion is well and truly shattered and the only reason the share price has not plunged much further than it has is the hope that some brave soul will put the group out of its misery with a takeover .
5 No sooner had I selected wheels down than I noticed that the port wheel had not come right down because I did not get a green light on that side of the undercarriage indicator .
6 Traditionally , the more active members have tended to belong to local groups , and the numbers of groups and group members have not grown as fast as the national membership .
7 Searches are not made as frequently as staff would like , because they say , shortages mean there simply are n't enough officers to do it .
8 ‘ If a co-ordinated effort is not made as quickly as possible , the death toll could increase dramatically to become a major catastrophe , ’ said Mr Demoze Kebebu , regional representative of Ethiopia 's Bureau of Refugee Affairs .
9 However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays .
10 This sector of the market has not expanded as rapidly as expected .
11 Often he is afraid that these jobs will not be done , or not done as well as he would do them .
12 An old favourite it is sometimes available , if not seen as often as Corydoras aneus and Corydoras paleatus .
13 After the weekend the couple go their separate ways again and are not seen together again until : OCTOBER 14
14 The rapidly rising birth rate is only part of the explanation , since the birth rate has not risen as fast as urban populations have increased .
15 He 'll have to know who 's coming but as I say , I 'm not bothered so long as Arthur and Angela 's there and and dad .
16 If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia .
17 Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin .
18 They had not got as far as Bamburgh , being warned by scouts of an English reinforcement army from Newcastle on the march northwards , which could have caused complications .
19 Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could .
20 Stress-relaxation tests are not performed as often as creep tests because many investigators believe they are less readily understood .
21 Although not used more often than once a year in autumn , this tool saves all the hard work involved in scarifying ( breaking up and loosening the surface of ) a lawn by hand with a lawn rake .
22 Not used as frequently as medium .
23 The Tender is the defenders ' finest weapon , and is not used as often as it should be .
24 To explain why they were not employed as frequently as they were amongst the middle class until the inter-war period involves consideration of the complicated relationship between the occupational characteristics of both husband and wife with their respective values and expectations and how they related to each other .
25 On the other hand , uprating many benefits in line with prices rather than earnings means that recipients have not shared as fully as others in the higher living standards achieved in the 1980s .
26 High average wind speeds tend to stunt the upward growth of plants and encourage the lateral growth of dwarf forms , e.g. of Calluna vulgaris or Juniperus communis , though prostrate forms of the former are not encountered as frequently as expected on exposed mountain plateaux .
27 what 's interesting is that those rivalries are not focused as strongly as they used around the very big clubs , and we 're talking less here about what 's gon na happen at Manchester United and Chelsea and perhaps more about the difficulties of Wolves and and Stoke .
28 When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds .
29 Items in angle brackets are not specified in the target text but they are not ruled out either since Chinese and Japanese do not have a category of number .
30 Although Clwyd was not hit as badly as Gwynedd , there was widespread flooding , including pensioners ' flats in Cae Brachty , Mold .
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