Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first category we work to prevent effects which might otherwise take place , not necessarily working directly with the child . |
| 2 | Actually it is redder than Betelgeux , but it looks so much fainter that the colour is not so striking even in binoculars . |
| 3 | ‘ I was not only speaking out on behalf of Manchester United but their thousands of fans as well . ’ |
| 4 | More men and women are not only living healthily into their seventies , but into their eighties and nineties . |
| 5 | It was therefore important to check that in embryonic wounds the epidermis was actively moving over the mesenchyme and not merely riding passively on mesenchymal contraction . |
| 6 | While at the same time as not merely coming out of the closet about his sexuality — in fact , by hardly admitting there was a closet there at all — he was also locking so many of his innermost thoughts away . |
| 7 | The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ . |
| 8 | " They 're not exactly queuing up at the door , though , are they ? " |
| 9 | Willi had revealed that , since the night of Madge 's fall from grace , she actually socialized with him , accepted the occasional invitation for coffee and , whilst not exactly chatting effusively about herself or her private life , indulged in fairly normal conversation with him . |
| 10 | Big record companies no longer send massed talent scouts here and — judging by Terry Christian 's depressingly banal pop column in the Manchester Evening News — they are not exactly missing out on buried treasure . |
| 11 | As Crawford , Winner and the ten-person film unit prepared to start work in the War Memorial Gallery , not exactly blending in with the surroundings , those on the floor of the Stock Exchange looked up , started screaming and shouting , and threw paper darts . |
| 12 | We are not just dealing here with whether local police and social services can work together , but with much deeper and more sinister implications . |
| 13 | Life is not just sailing through on a mill pond with sort of red sails in the sunset and that idyllic picture , life is not like that . |
| 14 | But he said : ‘ We are a clear second in the table — and not just hanging on by goal difference . |
| 15 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 16 | ‘ They were not just going off on their own into the bush they were in tourist locations . |
| 17 | He says , I 'm not just running round for six hot sweets ! |
| 18 | people , is not , are not just opting out of marriage , but they 're not prepared to put up with the situation , |
| 19 | I mean really useful , not just waiting about for the next piffling stage part . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ People are not normally wandering about in the bush at night . ’ |
| 21 | You 're not still going on about all that star sign nonsense , are you ? |
| 22 | They have given many parties in their time , but on New Year 's Eve they have always gone out to the gatherings of others — sometimes to several gatherings in the course of the evening , and some years separately , not always meeting even for the magic chimes . |
| 23 | He will want you at home , not always running about to meetings . ’ |
| 24 | By the time of the abolition measures of 1806 and 1807 abolitionists had failed to convince their opponents that they were not also looking forward to emancipation . |
| 25 | Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone . |
| 26 | But I mean , one of the major problems is a fact , these youth training programmes or Y , YP 's as they call them , are alright but they 're not really getting down to the basic er training we need ! |
| 27 | They 're not really finding out about the uttermost regions of the hydrogen atom . |
| 28 | But he 's not really coming out with the answers . |
| 29 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 30 | He was not particularly looking forward to it . |