Example sentences of "not [adv] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malaysian Mining Corporation Berhad , effectively held that a comfort letter which does not expressly and precisely state that it has no contractual force will have such force , if its terms are sufficiently precise to be capable of interpretation . |
| 2 | The Report observes : ‘ It is now 25 years since Mitbestimmung ( Co-determination ) was introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany ’ ; and again : ‘ As long ago as 1972 the EEC published draft proposals for a Fifth Directive on Company law , proposing employee representation on the supervisory boards of all companies in the Community with over 500 employees ’ — a rhetorical presentation that pictures the United Kingdom as dragging its reluctant feet well in the rear of a party marching briskly along the path towards a bright new future entrusted not wholly but largely to trade unions . |
| 3 | In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’ |
| 4 | It also gave employers legal remedies against industrial action in which no dispute exists between employers and their own employees or which is not wholly or mainly about employment matters . |
| 5 | For that belief is not analytically or necessarily true ; no contradiction is implied by supposing it false . |
| 6 | Much play was made of the fact that , since he had been present at the murder of John , duke of Burgundy , at Montereau he could not properly and worthily inherit the throne , from which he was now excluded . |
| 7 | Or do some represent a kind of verbal hijacking — an attempt to appropriate a term which does not properly or honestly belong in that context at all ? |
| 8 | Love , which indeed hid itself , but not shyly and fearfully , rather secretly and thoughtfully , so as not to be touched by a stranger 's hand — his first love , not his strongest and certainly not his deepest , but surely his most blessed . |
| 9 | Parents want the debate on the future of education of our children to be held in public with all interested parties making a contribution , not ashamedly and secretly in smoke-filled hotel rooms . |
| 10 | Local campaigners were aware that the decisions on this issue were being made , certainly not locally and also not nationally , but in fact in Brussels . |
| 11 | A Fool 's Alphabet , say , in which events are narrated not chronologically but alphabetically according to place . |
| 12 | Gradually , not chronologically but simply musically , there is a point at which 3/8 and 3/4 draw close together . |
| 13 | Others call them myth , meaning to say that they contain truth , even though they are not literally and historically true . |
| 14 | Sitting in the Beans ' kitchen that sense began to come back to her ; not suddenly but slowly , a slow prickle of pity and curiosity , like life returning to a deadened limb . |
| 15 | I have often wondered if this obsession with formal education and the high value put on academic achievement is a peculiarly Scottish thing , but it is clear from Bruch 's studies that the pressure to achieve — not necessarily but often academically — is an important factor in the aetiology of anorexia nervosa . |
| 16 | Such movements , however , do not necessarily and simply entail the substitution of a smaller conjugally-based family for a traditional extended family ; rather it would appear that at these times kin may take on a new significance , and that we may need to look at a network of relationships much wider than the conjugal family . |
| 17 | But this does not necessarily or even generally mean that every college teacher can teach . |
| 18 | Doubt does not necessarily or automatically mean the end of faith , for doubt is faith in two minds . |
| 19 | This omission in these sectors is not necessarily or intrinsically a bad thing , but it makes forward planning and therefore continuity of programmes more difficult . |
| 20 | It is not a view which includes the recognition that educated , underemployed women are singularly lacking in personal autonomy , and so prone to a frustration which is not necessarily or primarily sexual . |
| 21 | Now that the hand was not naturally and exactly adapted for one specific task it became generally adaptable for just about everything and hence the agency which ultimately controlled the hand was now called on to give it the directions which automatic instinct and locomotive reflexes no longer could . |
| 22 | The views of the Library Association on censorship are , on paper , sound , but what the News International ban demonstrated was that a simple reliance on policy statements and codes of professional conduct was not enough and never will be enough to confront library censorship . |
| 23 | Frederica 's quick mind 's eye saw what Crowe saw : a figure broomstick-thin against the dune , splay-footed in sensible sandals , thin-shouldered in the provincial flowered sundress , with its white pique triangles below the straps , butterfly-bowed on the small breasts , plain , yes , but not shockingly or brilliantly plain , smart in Calverley , unexceptionable in Nîmes and Bargemon , dowdy in this company . |
| 24 | Their desire to escape the rain might hurry their attack — not much but enough to give him a small advantage . |
| 25 | During the progress of the bill so far ( not much and currently stalled ) it has been instructive to note the number of occasions on which the Government has not tried to force the pace beyond 10pm . |
| 26 | The test sets out to assess a wide range of grammatical understanding , including grammatical categories such as noun , verb and adjective ; negatives ; singular and plural personal pronouns ; reversible active verbs ; personal pronouns ; singular and plural noun inflections ; comparative adjectives ; reversible passive sentences ; ‘ in'/ ‘ on ’ ; post-modified subjects ; ‘ X but not Y ’ constructions ; ‘ above'/ ‘ below ’ ; ‘ not only but also ’ constructions ; the relative clause ; ‘ neither X nor Y ’ and embedded sentences . |
| 27 | At this point it should be remembered that the proportion of the population which any particular age cohort constitutes during its lifetime is not only or indeed not mainly a function of its own initial size and subsequent mortality rate : it also depends upon the absolute size of all other cohorts and their mortality rates . |
| 28 | Modernity is not merely or even supremely capitalism . |
| 29 | And when Huston attacked Monty , not physically but verbally , I could n't take it . |
| 30 | can not be denied , but it would seem that man 's instinctive awareness of his mastery of his own destiny , is influenced by an equally instinctive awareness that he can not peacefully and successfully control that destiny unless he can locate , or himself create some supreme form of guiding influence which is recognised by all . |