Example sentences of "not [det] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to determine whether or not some types of publication were more likely to need repair than others , the proportions of monographs , serials , and newspapers in need of attention ( that is , falling into Categories 3–5 ) were calculated . |
| 2 | But not some categories of complaint including those : |
| 3 | As the clouds of imminent civil war gathered , Pelham hastened back to Hull where he later wrote : ‘ I kept the King out of Hull when he came in person ( although I had not such instructions from the House ) — where was a very great magazine in which I suppose I saved the State above £100,000 … |
| 4 | Whether or not these criticisms of inefficiency are valid is extremely difficult to assess , and the situation is complicated by repeated political interference by governments of both parties in the pricing , investment and employment decisions of nationalised industries , thereby concealing their real performance . |
| 5 | Mr. Wigley : Do not these figures of between 18 and 20 per cent . |
| 6 | She described colours which appeared to Carolyn to be faded , dirty , or both , as ‘ subtle ’ , and Carolyn realized that her clothes were not these shades by dismal accident , but by the most painstaking design . |
| 7 | But let not these requests from a young planter discourage you , my dear cousin . |
| 8 | However , it is not these differences in behaviour which form the basis of the class structure ; rather these differences are an indirect reflection of objective economic inequalities . |
| 9 | Lord have mercy upon us , and lay not these sins to our charge . " |
| 10 | Not many houses in I must have passed his house when I was up there . |
| 11 | There are not many girls like you . |
| 12 | There were not many signs of sadness on deck . |
| 13 | The southern colonies , in the islands or on the American mainland , offered tobacco and other products that could be exchanged for English exports or help the London re-export trade , but the agricultural products of New England were similar enough to those of England to mean that there were not many openings for trade , and this meant that the differences caused by religion were not healed by close commercial relations . |
| 14 | At one point it boasted 13 members who were admirals — not many clubs in the world can stage an annual match called Admirals v The Rest . |
| 15 | If record keys are numeric and there are not many gaps in the sequence , it is often possible to allocate a storage position based directly on the key . |
| 16 | It was not many minutes before Theda 's lamentations were interrupted by the eruption into her bedchamber of Hector , barking and whining , closely followed by Agnes Diggory . |
| 17 | There are not many companies around who would be prepared to accommodate the needs of the individual in this way and Mr Guest deserves to be highly commended for doing so . |
| 18 | I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it . |
| 19 | This can be a major problem for the sponsors of the Motion if there are not many Members around the House on the day on which it is decided to ‘ put the Motion down ’ or , in other words , to go public with it . |
| 20 | Not many users of PageMaker or Ventura or Quark need or get that much sophistication . |
| 21 | There were not many families with young children who welcomed a school with Teutonic associations , however liberal , and the refugee label was a further disincentive to parents canvassing the choice of private education . |
| 22 | Anyway , in what seems the distant past of the late Seventies , when I was reporting from The Gnoll , they were not much good , not many players from Neath won caps and , once the new Welsh Challenge Cup had been won in 1972 , an utterly barren decade ensued . |
| 23 | A few places are far , far hotter : stars may be millions of degrees C. There are not many places in the Universe , in short , where the temperature is consistently between 0 and 100°C — let alone , between 0 and 45°C , which Earthly life forms prefer . |
| 24 | From our rented cottage on the north Pembrokeshire coast , not many yards from the cliff and the coastal path , we could see them ; their youth hostel destination was at the end of our lane . |
| 25 | On the right , his father was not many yards behind him in that charge . |
| 26 | Today began with an early morning ( 05:30 ) game drive , not many animals to be seen — impala , kudu , giraffe , rhino etc . |
| 27 | cos there 's not many cars in that yard when we past |
| 28 | There were not many foods in short supply — only sugar , which we missed more than anything else . |
| 29 | But provided there are not many plants of this species in the tank , then there is very little danger of its effects on the fish . |
| 30 | FROM GENESIS TO REVELATIONS Daryl Stuermer ‘ Not many hippies in tonight , ’ remarked an official in the foyer of Earls Court during Genesis ' recent six-nighter at the London venue … |