Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 2 | Sometimes portraits of mature adults were used for children and adolescents , not necessarily of the same sex as the intended subject . |
| 3 | All three are caught from the same swims , although not necessarily at the same time , and in every case there are two-tone specimens . |
| 4 | The stretcher across the back of the chair will similarly have angled shoulders , but not necessarily at the same angle as the seat rail , as the back legs may taper away towards the bottom ; indeed they generally do . |
| 5 | If there is still a sizeable shortage , then further assistance is given , though not necessarily at the same rates and maturities as earlier . |
| 6 | When you have finished your interviews you should leave yourself time , not necessarily on the same day , to make an unhurried and carefully considered decision . |
| 7 | Generally the people with the heaviest credit commitments do have more than one credit agreement ( not necessarily with the same firm ) going at the same time . |
| 8 | Again , if I call my mother and her sister by the same term ( 'mother' ) , then both behave maternally towards me — though not necessarily with the same intensity of feeling . |
| 9 | Remote or unusual keys are still featured only at extraordinary moments , but , apart from B minor , not necessarily with the same associations as before . |
| 10 | It not only imposes a duty to pay , but also sets up ( not necessarily in the same statute ) the machinery for collecting and distributing the money . |
| 11 | One of the activities ( you do n't know which ) is then described again , not necessarily in the same words . |
| 12 | Those simian , orange-furred Jokaero were forever improvising ingenious equipment , not necessarily in the same way twice , though with an accent on miniaturization . |
| 13 | The expression of synaptic potentiation probably involves both pre- and postsynaptic mechanisms , not necessarily in the same proportion at each stage , the one leading to an increase in transmitter release and the other to an increase in the number or change in the properties of the ion channels which mediate synaptic transmission . |
| 14 | It is hard to resolve this trade-off a priori , but one possibility is to allow all firms to participate in a co-operative project , but not necessarily in the same project , using competition between co-operative R&D projects to inhibit the generation of some of the negative externalities discussed above . |
| 15 | And even if their mother tongues are unrelated , the problems faced by the native English speaker will not necessarily by the same as those faced by the native French speaker , for instance . |
| 16 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was a passion for collecting prehistoric flint implements , and quite high prices were paid for prize specimens ; not perhaps in the same league as the prices paid for Classical sculpture , but quite enough to encourage the fakers . |
| 17 | It is not so in the same way in which the Bill of Rights is a part of the law of the United States of America — no Act of Parliament becomes void because it transgresses the provisions of the European Convention ; no United Kingdom court will or even can issue an injunction to re ; train a government official from acting in contravention of its terms . |
| 18 | EBCDIC and ASCII environments are supported within the same region — and suites of programs and files with different character sets can reside not only on the same hardware and operating system but actually running under the same application , the company claims . |
| 19 | EBCDIC and ASCII environments are supported within the same region — and suites of programs and files with different character sets can reside not only on the same hardware and operating system but actually running under the same application , the company claims . |
| 20 | A person who is mentally handicapped is just as much a member of society as anyone else and , like anyone who possesses a disability or impairment , is entitled not only to the same rights and services as society as a whole , but also to special needs and facilities which Britain , as a relatively affluent nation , should be able to provide for the care of disadvantaged people . |
| 21 | The analyses have also shown much interesting detail : sub-groups have emerged when marble fragments have been found to have extremely similar isotope ratios , which suggests they came not only from the same quarry but from the same part of the quarry . |
| 22 | Mr Khasbulatov , the Congress Speaker , who is Mr Yeltsin 's main rival , seems to think in these terms , but more extreme nationalists are waiting in the wings who have argued for the reassertion of Russian power not only in the former Soviet Union but in Eastern Europe as well . |
| 23 | More generous approaches to the question of emancipation were to be found not only in the many unofficial memoranda which were passing from hand to hand , but also in the minds of a few well-placed individuals whose views could hardly be ignored . |
| 24 | Thucydides ' praise of Archelaos , written not long before the latter 's death in 399 , tells how he built forts and straight roads , and reorganized the army , both infantry and cavalry arms , doing more for it than all his eight predecessors put together . |
| 25 | The ideal of providing an adequate and satisfying secondary education for all ( and not just for the few who were fortunate enough to be able to pass a selection test at 11 ) seemed close to realisation . |
| 26 | Since the onset in the late 1920s of severe economic difficulties in areas of coal-mining and heavy industry , there has been a progressive shift of employment opportunities towards the South , albeit not always at the same rate . |
| 27 | This new , technical use of ‘ myth ’ to mean , not a falsehood , but a truth indirectly expressed , has since become very common in theology — though not always with the same idea about what truth actually is as in Strauss . |
| 28 | In a free society , the regulation of such material is always problematic , with social mores shifting from generation to generation — and not always in the same direction . |
| 29 | The satirist , Saki , once observed that right and wrong , like the Russian Empire , had certain well-defined limits , albeit not always in the same place . |
| 30 | And er in some way or other you know , not always in the same position but I 'd always er had something to do with it . |