Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The warmer the climate the more they are in evidence , because the living reptiles are ‘ cold blooded ’ ( without their own internal heat regulator ) and they can not successfully live in very cold climates . |
| 2 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 3 | In contrast to the earlier stages of the debate , the concern was to make the common curriculum more than the ‘ basics ’ ( something not altogether borne out in their subsequent pronouncements ) . |
| 4 | I could see that Aunt Louise did not altogether rule out nuns . |
| 5 | From some remarks in Sir Alfred Ayer 's autobiography ( Part of my Life Vol. 1 , 1978 ) , it seems that the two met infrequently and perhaps did not altogether get on . |
| 6 | The distinction between the meaning of the word ‘ agent ’ in the common law sense of ‘ special agent ’ and its meaning in what for the want of a better expression I will call its ‘ equitable sense ’ was not expressly pointed out until the judgment of the court was delivered by Slade L.J . |
| 7 | Local authorities can do nothing that is not expressly set out in some Act of Parliament . |
| 8 | This hypothesis is largely but not wholly borne out by the empirical evidence . |
| 9 | I think Mr Wright realises he has produced a piece of special pleading that does not wholly stand up , but it is difficult not to feel sympathy with his assertion : The past can not be changed , but what we make of it certainly can . |
| 10 | If not properly thought through and implemented , it can be disruptive , disorganized and fraught with tensions between the teachers concerned — and therefore considerably less beneficial to children than the solo teaching it replaces . |
| 11 | Panic ‘ The Government built it in a day out of panic — it was not properly thought out , ’ she raged after the hearing at Isleworth Crown Court , Middlesex . |
| 12 | It had all , of course , been a mistake — instructions as to the Rome address had been given to George Barrett and not properly passed on . |
| 13 | They may decide that they react to particular foods , on the basis of a bogus diagnostic test or an elimination diet that is not properly carried out . |
| 14 | One can imagine , in such a relatively short period , the delay and uncertainty that will be caused if the transitional arrangements are not properly set out . |
| 15 | Job control can be ineffective if the command structure is not properly laid down . |
| 16 | Although the quinary system was not widely taken up , especially outside Britain , it was not dismissed out of hand as a figment of MacLeay 's and Swainson 's imaginations . |
| 17 | The problem is how to explain the quantization of the electromagnetic field to one who can not instinctively write down Maxwell 's equations ( which is no shame ) , let alone say what they mean . |
| 18 | For example , Clarke scorns those who argue that mankind will not eventually move out to colonise the vast expanses of space . |
| 19 | Alexandra felt smooth and neat and tight and regretful that , with Lyddy to keep a stern eye on standards , she could not secretly leave off her stays when the weather got warmer as she did occasionally at Bewick . |
| 20 | It is held by Moslems to contain all the essentials of their belief , and to be a collection of passages of direct revelation uttered by Mohammed ( although not all written down during his lifetime ) . |
| 21 | Peggy rather hoped that Rosalind was not all dressed up to meet a new boy-friend , but with a letter going off to Richard it looked as if she were . |
| 22 | there 's women darts , there 's mens darts , and they might not all come in till about nine o'clock , but they are only like , two hours |
| 23 | And the Castle was not entirely made up of sadness and shadows . |
| 24 | On Aug. 9 Cuomo stated that Bush could be defeated by an aggressive campaign which focused on domestic issues , but suggested that he was not interested in seeking the nomination , although he did not entirely rule out the possibility . |
| 25 | Now that does not entirely rule out any possibility of the new settlement within the Selby area , as er Mr has implied . |
| 26 | As Wildavsky ( 1975 , p. 42 ) states : ‘ It is not so much that traditional budgeting succeeds brilliantly on every criterion but that it does not entirely fail on any one that is responsible for its longevity . ’ |
| 27 | Bakunin was perhaps not entirely wrong in supposing that in such a time the spirit of at least potential insurrection was most likely to smoulder among the marginal and sub-proletariat , though he was quite mistaken in believing that they would be the base of revolutionary movements . |
| 28 | Her mood was back to normal , although there remained some problems over her finances , and the legal situation was not entirely sorted out . |
| 29 | You can argue about the amount of resources devoted to health but what you can not sensibly argue about is that the resources devoted to health care should be used to maximum effect . |
| 30 | But how do we sustain , in prose or verse , a feeling that is intensely personal , not obviously called up by something ‘ on the outside ’ but which seems to be embedded deep within us ? |