Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , that even if the statute does not expressly so provide , a kindred limitation of her powers must arise by necessary implication . |
| 2 | Like him , I do not necessarily automatically accept everything that is stated in Scottish newspapers . |
| 3 | That a policy may meet the ideal of justice does not necessarily always mean that it is right to adopt it , if in so doing other fundamental values are sacrificed . |
| 4 | But your suspenseful situations do not necessarily ever need to become other than subtle . |
| 5 | Shareholders , banks and so on do not necessarily tightly constrain managers essentially because they lack enough information to do so , and this is either a result of some problem in the market for information ( e. |
| 6 | He and I do not perhaps instantly fit into the standard parliamentary stereotypes of the steady old stallion and the keen young foal who are usually harnessed together for this occasion . |
| 7 | In these cases there is no ambiguity or uncertainty about A , but it is patient of further elaboration , in directions that it does not perhaps explicitly state , but which can be seen — especially on reflection after reading B to be latent in it . |
| 8 | Not much closer mind you , but certainly closer . ’ |
| 9 | So what we 're going to do is to trail our coats in a variety of sessions , to suggest a variety of things to you , and see whether you agree with them or not so please feel free to come in as and when appropriate and see what you think . |
| 10 | Do not so well agree ; |
| 11 | Hands are not so easy come by for a slaver . |
| 12 | This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans . |
| 13 | Virgin flesh was not so easily come upon in those days ; and a virgin garnished with terror was an unexpected breakfast treat after his long sleep . |
| 14 | but they 're not so easily beat |
| 15 | The quality press and the Daily Mail do not so readily create nicknames , although they are willing to use the existing currency — ‘ Yesterday , detectives were hunting a man locals call ‘ the stranger from Devil 's Wood ’ ' ( Daily Mail ) . |
| 16 | Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory . |
| 17 | In the streets , vehicles clattered along on tyreless wheels , with the day not so far of– when even at the front the airforce would be forced to encase plane wheels in wooden clogs when being wheeled from the hangar , just to save precious rubber . |
| 18 | Unhappily , he did not so often get it right . |
| 19 | Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact . |
| 20 | The whole operation does not so much aspire to style as do what it pleases with it . |
| 21 | It did not so much reach a conclusion as slow down and dribble into silence , as though the players had got bored with the melody and let it slip through their fingers carelessly . |
| 22 | He does not so much sit as squat upon the rug , kneeled over the low table as though in prayer . |
| 23 | This is appropriate , for the story that the letters not so much tell as adumbrate comes through with a wistful fragrance that is very affecting if one reads slowly . |
| 24 | Shakespeare does not so much take sides as show how the state is threatened by the tragic collision of opposing forces : for antique Rome read Jacobean England . |
| 25 | With him art does not so much represent nature as human nature creates through art . |
| 26 | Again , this did not so much represent a ‘ betrayal of socialist ideals ’ as a response to the evident absence of any developed thinking on the part of socialists as to how ‘ planning ’ should be conducted in a peacetime economy , without the overriding and generally agreed common objective of victory in war as the guiding principle and without the continuation of ‘ dictatorial ’ direction of labour . |
| 27 | If there is any one awareness common to the great modern writers , it is that language will not do our bidding , that good or bad intentions do not so much pave roads , as poke up odd coloured weeds through the roadway . |
| 28 | Pressures for a particular settlement in the Church , in other words , emerged from within society before the establishment of the new regime ; the eventual religious settlement worked out did not so much create the religious problem but rather was an attempt to deal with a religious problem that already existed , although in doing so the government inevitably created new religious tensions in the process . |
| 29 | First , all the evidence that is available shows that the expansion of the social services did not so much rely on the workers made redundant from the industrial sector but rather it drew on new sources of labour — mainly women . |
| 30 | The crisis over the succession which emerged at the end of Anne 's reign did not so much divide the parties , but split the Tories . |