Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Am I not right in thinking that the batons themselves are fused , therefore they are a safety device , therefore t the fuse in the baton will go if you do exceed the thirteen ? |
| 2 | Given that he may have fallen victim of an essentialist fallacy , is he not right in asserting that marriage as always understood is a relationship involving a man and a woman , commonly so defined ? |
| 3 | Am I , am I not right in saying |
| 4 | In spite of his strict interpretation of the principles governing selection , Stirling , as we shall see , was not entirely above using politics to serve his own long-term aims . |
| 5 | The company 's executive managers are responsible for managing the organization that is set up , not necessarily for managing the change work itself . |
| 6 | On the other hand , though , we do in society have erm all sorts of erm apparatuses and institutions , not necessarily for reconciling different evaluations , but for co-ordinating them I would say . |
| 7 | It is Philistine not to see that a fact and a theory , simple components of tenuous knowledge , are a way not necessarily of controlling nature , but of coming to terms with it , of playing homage ; science is less arrogant in many ways than the arts of landscape or of poetising , mainly because it is content to describe the world as it is . |
| 8 | Has change had the effect not necessarily of reducing the amount of support , or of weakening the sense of obligation , but simply of changing its character ? . |
| 9 | Parents can often be experts at telling their children what is naughty behaviour but not necessarily at telling them what is good behaviour . |
| 10 | What Hollywood had been doing was living off its wits and trying to survive as best it could but it now responded to this challenge not necessarily by taking Dr Dale 's ‘ entire world ’ as its range but at least by ensuring that there were values in its films . |
| 11 | Not necessarily by supporting the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament or some other " peace " organization , since concern is not the same thing as supporting a particular policy for disarmament . |
| 12 | As the hon. Member for Meirionnydd Nant Conwy ( Dr. Thomas ) will know , last century the inspectorate played an important part in developing Welsh education , not necessarily by visiting each school to give its view , although no doubt that played a part but by creating a philosophy — in the Matthew Arnold sense of the term — for the development of education which , frankly , one does not get from party manifestos . |
| 13 | Bloch adds : ‘ You expose strengths and weaknesses , so that the next job is filled according to the team 's need , not necessarily by adding a good player of the same type . |
| 14 | The critical dimensions of the transformational effort were starting with a vision that was at first unclear or at least insufficiently communicated , focusing too much on cost reduction and not enough on developing a new state , trying to function without adequate transition-management structures , and consciously intervening in the matrix-management issues until they became acute . |
| 15 | Democrats are starting to say that the Clinton plan relies too much on new taxes and not enough on spending cuts . |
| 16 | The plane was now moving at not much above stalling speed . |
| 17 | ‘ Well — yes — I remember getting out of the car , but not much about climbing the hill or making the camp . ’ |
| 18 | To him it was essentially a community-based populist movement which , while it was capable of employing a revolutionary rhetoric , was not so of organising a revolution . |
| 19 | One might have suspected them of being adverbs that simply lacked the ordinary morphological marking , as in : ( 12 ) Grandmother took the corner too fast However , one can conclusively show that this is not so by finding examples where the predicate qualifiers fill a position which can also be occupied by a true adverb ; here we observe that the effect is strikingly different . |
| 20 | In the summer term , then , they will be becoming familiar , not only with learning from teachers but with learning with teachers : they will feel the full responsibility of sharing their experiences with others . |
| 21 | It is much more acute in connection with electricity pylons , yet the Central Electricity Generating Board is specifically charged not only with maintaining an efficient and co-ordinated supply of electricity but also with the preservation of amenity . |
| 22 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 23 | Having entered the soft systems world as an untrained novice some years ago , and endeavoured to apply the theories to problem situations within my normal sphere of activity , aided only by the few textbooks that were then on the market and occasional contact with other exponents of the approach , I am keenly aware of the difficulties that some practitioners may have , not only with understanding the principles but also with putting them into practice . |
| 24 | There was ‘ Pooper Scooper ’ Watkins , a young woman who insisted not only on picking up her dog 's faeces with a see-through plastic glove , but also on waving it in the faces of passers-by in order to emphasize her ecological soundness . |
| 25 | Fantasy cake making relies not only on decorating techniques and artistic effort but on successful baking in the first place . |
| 26 | The safety of an army in the field is dependent not only on defending itself against direct attack but also on its maintaining open communications with its base … we should be as much concerned with threats to the rear as with threats to the front . |
| 27 | There are innumerable guides to public speaking that offer advice not only on preparing the material but how to make your voice resonant , ways to use your eyes in order to hold your audience , microphone techniques , and so on . |
| 28 | The basic cakes need to be moist , tasty and firm , not only for eating but for cutting and shaping . |
| 29 | Ironically , it was a severe injury that first brought Carvill 's Hill to Martin Pipe 's stables in Somerset where , working closely with the Bristol vets , he has established an enviable reputation not only for helping horses to recover but also for avoiding the injuries that plague racehorses , especially jumpers . |
| 30 | These speculations are used as justification not only for opposing more prosecution advocacy by employed lawyers , but for blocking the entire application . |