Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] the end " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local searches — a new motorway is a boon if sited a couple of miles away , but not right at the end of the road . |
| 2 | They insisted their four colleges have a spirit which was ‘ practical rather than academical ’ although it was agreed that the 254 places provided in the colleges were not enough by the end of the century . |
| 3 | They carried gold and coal , machinery and books , tea and wool , cotton goods and cheap tin trays , not only to the ends of the earth but also round the coasts and up the rivers . |
| 4 | The present bridge was built to an adventurous design wherein the cast iron sections forming the arches were pin-jointed not only at the ends but also in the centre of the span . |
| 5 | Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall . |
| 6 | not generally towards the end of the sale period because you would be looking at er the brochure or the costs been put together eight months before the first flat was sold , erm a new brochure following a new estimate probably would have been prepared after about twenty months , that is to say er that would have been prepared before the last people entered the er flats |
| 7 | It is easy to work with , not just for the end user , but also for the programmer , which meant Harwood could tailor systems quickly to meet particular requirements . |
| 8 | Progress can be reviewed at any time — not just at the end — and can be done both informally and in written reports . |
| 9 | The attention needs to be constant and the rewards are given frequently , not just at the end . |
| 10 | I could have looked after her and been with her so much longer then , not just a few months , not just at the end ! ’ |
| 11 | It is not just at the ends of words where compression methods can be applied . |
| 12 | It is not just at the ends of words where common letter sequences can make use of the same nodes in a tree structure . |
| 13 | I have read for review , but not usually in the end reviewed , not a few books where this seems to have occurred . |
| 14 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |
| 15 | This writing ended , indeed the book ended , abruptly , not even at the end of the year . |
| 16 | The dictator 's successors , led by Georgi Malenkov , talked of the need to resolve East-West differences and there were signs of a relaxation in tension , not least with the end of the Korean war in July . |
| 17 | ‘ This is a beautiful day at the end of a long way , but we are not yet at the end of that way , a whole lot remains to be done , ’ Mr Brandt said . |