Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not altogether fanciful to match moods to newspapers . |
| 2 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 3 | It is not necessarily essential to design knowledge representation formalisms into which the input text must be translated and subsequently acted upon . |
| 4 | It 's it 's not necessarily possible to generate jobs from with within its own boundaries . |
| 5 | First , in those days their things were all banned , and whoever had any was not especially keen to draw attention to the fact . |
| 6 | They would probably not bring very much bear meat at all , because Lugh was not especially partial to bear meat , but it would have looked odd to say this . |
| 7 | To this extent it is not especially helpful to see pubs as a category of buildings , but rather to keep a clear distinction in mind between interior and exterior . |
| 8 | She added : ‘ Some donors are not so keen to make contact with the people they help but I have always wanted to receive a picture of Berend and , maybe , meet him . ’ |
| 9 | But it 's not so easy to persuade people to do what you want — not when they 're pillars of society ! ’ |
| 10 | In 1922 it was not so easy to predict crop yields as it is today . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not so easy to buy land or factories , so as soon as someone makes money they spend it on a top-of-the-range Mercedes or on expensive furniture for their flat . ’ |
| 12 | It is not so easy to produce figures for Britain as so much porn is consumed illegally , but the trend is sure to mirror that of the States . |
| 13 | She feels people in Scotland who have lost their jobs are not so eager to find work because wages are low , whereas in the States people are prepared to do two or three part-time jobs to support themselves . |
| 14 | It was not so difficult to leave Roundhay . |
| 15 | For pupils of below average ability it is not so unusual to find discussions of the whole curriculum taking place , perhaps because of their perceived ‘ low ’ status or because there are no public examination constraints . |
| 16 | To take a specific example , from the same book SIMULATIONS , It is not only possible to analyse Disneyland as a digest of the American way of life but such an ideological analysis conceals a further order of simulations : " Disneyland is there to conceal the fact that it is the " real " country , all of " real " America , which IS Disneyland … |
| 17 | Pope Benedict XII was not only keen to reconcile Edward and Philip so that their planned crusade could go ahead , but he was also anxious to keep Lewis of Bavaria isolated from either French or English help . |
| 18 | Indeed there were several rounds when Eubank not only back-pedalled to escape Eubank 's plodding attack he actually turned and ran unashamedly to avoid toe-to-toe confrontation . |
| 19 | The speaker 's ability to plan utterances is not sufficiently good to allow planning and production to co-occur smoothly and without interference ; and so there are periods when production must suffer if planning is to proceed . |
| 20 | But they were not sufficiently close to sustain Cockburn 's analysis , particularly in the field of urban policy and the management of local communities . |
| 21 | However , a Class 1 transaction is not sufficiently important to require shareholder approval . |
| 22 | However , these arguments were not sufficiently persuasive to deter Lord Goff from recognising the underlying justice of the Woolwich 's case . |
| 23 | Substances like Nylon have plenty of strength but they are not sufficiently stiff to make engineering structures . |
| 24 | Where there is a shortage of labour in a regional or occupational labour market and pay scales are not sufficiently flexible to enable employers to respond to it , it may be only via the displacement of permanent staff by agency workers that the occupational labour market is able to find its equilibrium . |
| 25 | Why is it not normally possible to ripen wheat or barley on the uplands ? |
| 26 | Much of these data , however , are also suitable for hypothesis-testing — indeed the data are of higher quality than those generally used in research studies because it is not usually practicable to ask academics from a wide range of areas to adopt uniform teaching , assessment and reporting practices solely to permit educational research to occur . |
| 27 | In high concentrations of algae the meshes become clogged , and their filtering efficiency is reduced ; however , it is not usually difficult to estimate numbers of cells per cubic metre of sea water . |
| 28 | In practice it is not usually important to mark pauses at the beginning and end of a passage ; in the rest of the book I put no lines on short examples and only single lines around longer ones ; the boundaries within a passage are much more important . |
| 29 | But the Tigers , although not usually reluctant to claim revenge , deny killing him . |
| 30 | But , the application of NMDA itself is not usually sufficient to induce LTP , though it readily induces STP . |