Example sentences of "and [not/n't] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leading lights of the working class were plant convenors and lodge secretaries , not elected councillors , who were generally , and not wholly inaccurately , regarded as a collection of third-rate nuggets . |
| 2 | More often , the establishment of a uniform language is not the motive so much as the result — and not invariably so — of national independence . |
| 3 | A basic self-awareness ( a ) to reflect constructively about religion without being overwhelmed by prejudice , whether religious or non-religious ; ( b ) to see and understand the kind of assumptions about religion present in their environment and in society as a whole , and be prepared to think about these and not automatically either reject them or take them over ; ( c ) to develop trust in their own powers of perceptiveness and intuition , provided that this trust is balanced by openness towards the insights of others and the findings of fresh evidence ; ( d ) consequent on this , to develop willingness to modify , change , enlarge , or revise , what has so far been thought and felt about religion . |
| 4 | Of course , the hundred years is only just up for Darwin and not yet up for Freud , depending on when you start the hundred years it makes a . |
| 5 | Joan , though Anne 's junior by a year and not yet fully accustomed to the ways of the nobility , was by far the more worldly-wise of the two . |
| 6 | The Volkskammer on Sept. 28 approved a partial amnesty involving the reduction by one-third of sentences passed before July 1 , 1990 , and not yet fully served ( except for serious crimes such as war crimes , murder and serious violent or sexual crimes ) . |
| 7 | Although research has mapped out many of the inter-active processes that cause acid rain , the details are complex and not yet fully understood . |
| 8 | erm and as you 'll be able to see from my introduction make do and mend was n't something that suddenly happened in nineteen thirty nine there were sections of society in which make do and mend was a permanent and not not particularly erm welcome fact of life . |
| 9 | Encouraged by the vision thus conjured up , Nutty watched the opposition with narrowed eyes , and was pleased to see that , yes , Colin Constable , for all his smart appearance , was certainly not up to Nails 's standard and not even up to Jazz 's , although better than Hoomey and herself . |
| 10 | ‘ At first , after he married my mother , I was too busy and not even completely interested . |
| 11 | They did n't have any control , certainly , and not even very much knowledge as to how the commodity — and I 'm talking about cotton , rubber , tea , copper , bauxite , coco , sugar , coffee and so on — what happened to it when it enters the market of a developed country . |
| 12 | At first , the plan was quite modest and not even crudely geometric , as it was later to become . |
| 13 | Basically , however , it is our practice only to paddle on Sundays in the fishing season and not even then on certain rivers when the salmon are running . |
| 14 | Erm but finally , I 'm a Liberal Democrat , I 'm proud to be one , I was in the Alliance before , an S D P member it turns out , I 'm a great admirer of the present leader , Paddy Ashdown , and I think he , and all of us , have done wonders since the dismal days in late eighty seven , when our opinion poll rating was Well single figures and not even necessarily that bigger single figure . |
| 15 | It was sensitive , beautifully and imaginatively photographed , and not even remotely patronising . |
| 16 | The aim that we set ourselves was to analyse the idea of a numerical , as distinct from a purely qualitative , diversity of existents ; to clarify , that is , what is involved in assuming the possibility of there being a plurality of self-subsistent particulars that are numerically and not just qualitatively distinguishable from each other . |
| 17 | IBM is still too dependent on the mainframe business , and not just financially . |
| 18 | I listened with astonishment to the view that I might consider loving my cancer , for it did remind me that all was not well with myself , and not just physically . |
| 19 | If there are exclusively private events , in the sense that they are in principle , and not just empirically , inaccessible to more than one observer , it might be argued that such events could not be intelligibly claimed , let alone shown to be , subject to any laws , and this means that no rational explanatory model could be constructed for them . |
| 20 | The experimental evidence of gravitational lensing is strong qualitative evidence that GR applies over the whole of the Universe and not just locally in our solar system . |
| 21 | The results , which are in excellent agreement with GR , lend considerable weight to the argument that Einstein 's theory applies universally and not just locally . |
| 22 | It is mentioned to indicate that we stand at the start of communication changes and must prepare to play our part imaginatively in the future and not just retrospectively . |
| 23 | The parents must agree that they can deliver the rewards and disincentives always and not just sometimes . |
| 24 | ‘ Suddenly everyone was getting on stage and doing a load of angry jokes about the Prime Minister or nuclear war and not just about how pretty table napkins were , ’ comments Merton . |
| 25 | In order to do this one would need to know about the nature of land rights in that particular society and about the organisation of writing within central bureaucracy , and not just about the different functions of written and spoken language in general . |
| 26 | I think the answer is yes , which leads to a depressing conclusion , and not just about disability . |
| 27 | The distinction is a very significant one , because all the great religions of the world have emphasized how important it is that religion and life are bound up together , that religion does not hive off into some remote corner unrelated to the real world ; all religions do bother about the secular in the first sense of the word — about how life is actually lived and what people are and do , and not just about what they say and believe . |
| 28 | Of course , in practice , the Great Helmsman acted on the principle : ‘ Kill ten thousand , frighten a billion ’ , and not just once . |
| 29 | SPARKS WILL be flying at Embsay this Saturday … and not just out of the chimney of their band of battling Yorkshire tank engines . |
| 30 | From the demonstration alone , it is difficult to be certain that the motion is chaotic , in the specific sense that the word is now used , and not just very complicated . |