Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without foreign or extraneous admixture ; free from anything not properly pertaining to it ; homogeneous , unalloyed . |
| 2 | Choose your type of moisturiser , not only according to your skin type , but also in relation to the climate . |
| 3 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 4 | WHEN citizens of the Irish Republic bestow sainthood on Jack Charlton , thinking him to be perhaps the most significant figure in their sporting history , they are not merely responding to what he has already achieved with the national football team . |
| 5 | Like , erm , I 'm , like I 'm not fucking saying to she 's , she 's but she 's , she just gets fucking absolutely stupid ! |
| 6 | Problems vary , not just according to what they are about , but also according to : |
| 7 | Another thirty Health and Safety proposals are on the way such as that on working time in the news last week and another to restore the protection for young people at work which we 've lost over the last decade , and just as important the union has just n not just reacting to what 's coming out of Brussels , it 's actually helping set the agenda . |
| 8 | Mitch , of course , was not now speaking to her . |
| 9 | That does appeal to me because it 's nothing you 're not particularly competing to something like Yellow Pages or anything like that . |
| 10 | War weariness was increasing the unpopularity of the Whigs , and although the Tories were happy with Queen Anne , the prospect of the succession of the House of Hanover , foreign Lutherans who were known to be sympathetic to the Whigs , was not particularly appealing to them . |
| 11 | I 'm not even speaking to you because of that flipping letter . |
| 12 | Is it usual to understand anyone — I 'm not even referring to my enigmatic self — at one 's second meeting ? ’ |