Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valerie Jones of London ( Letters NI 198 ) criticizes you for not wholeheartedly supporting Sendero Luminoso ( A shining path of blood ) in Peru , while I was thinking that you were not sufficiently unequivocal in your condemnation of Sendero Luminoso . |
| 2 | This is why reviewing is not properly speaking criticism , though it calls for critical qualities , and an extended review-article , looking at a whole oeuvre , may well be . |
| 3 | But he wants the military to test the anti- nerve gas pills to make sure that they 're not addictive , so that they 're not inadvertantly giving soldiers under stress a potent drug which could be open to abuse . |
| 4 | Thames Valley Police were criticised for not effectively alerting ports and airports to watch for him . |
| 5 | Wilson-Barnett differentiates between teaching ( involving a change in behaviour ) and information-giving ( a process , and having less concern with how it is received … and not necessarily involving interaction or assessment of individual need ) . |
| 6 | In order that you may continue with other work ( not necessarily involving LIFESPAN ) , mail messages are accumulated within LIFESPAN until it is convenient for them to be inspected or printed . |
| 7 | Not necessarily using time which are a lot more something where they 're completed . |
| 8 | Other new features include international support , not only handling languages , but also country 's financial and accounting vagaries and European value-added tax ( Intrastat ) reporting . |
| 9 | Other new features include international support , not only handling languages , but also country 's financial and accounting vagaries and European value-added tax ( Intrastat ) reporting . |
| 10 | It 's not only riding skills that count when considering a holiday , but the ability to cope in unfamiliar surroundings . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not only riding skills that count when considering a holiday , but the ability to cope in unfamiliar surroundings . ’ |
| 12 | How many Welsh coaches , for example , see their role as not only achieving success for their clubs but also furnishing players of quality for the new multiplicity of Welsh squads ? |
| 13 | By claiming that his work was superior to that of fellow architects Barry , Smirke and Blore , he was not only casting doubt upon the ethics of the architectural profession , but was also blatantly arrogant . |
| 14 | Blake 's work for MI6 included not only gathering intelligence from the Russians but tracking down and watching Communist spies sent over into the West . |
| 15 | In this passage Thorpe J. was quite clearly not only bearing W. 's wishes in mind , but looking behind them to see why W. wished to remain where she was . |
| 16 | You will see people not only stating facts , asking questions and giving information but airing opinions , expressing their feelings , sharing their experiences , thinking aloud . |
| 17 | A 1989 Gallup Fitness Consumer Survey found that women are not only using diets and exercise to improve their looks but also their health . |
| 18 | The ratio technique has been used to assess the vigour of growing vegetation not only using Landsat data for small area inventories but also on a global basis using low-resolution data from the NOAA meteorological satellites . |
| 19 | ‘ Hellenism ’ meant not only speaking Greek as the main language of communication in the eastern half of the Mediterranean , but also games , gymnasia , theatres , and the diffusion of polytheistic cult . |
| 20 | City land available for house-building was further reduced by the building of railways and roads which often swallowed up not only building land but also existing working-class housing . |
| 21 | This is no doubt why we find employers from now on not only buying machines more readily , but also setting women to work on them , a combination which aroused the union to sudden awareness of the threat . |
| 22 | Localisation of protein alone may identify not only producing cells , but also target cells and cells which have taken up the protein by endocytosis . |
| 23 | Sociology will need to make use of psychoanalytic theory to the extent that it seeks to be not only accumulating knowledge and developing theory for its own sake , but also acknowledges that by doing this it is changing society 's own self-understanding . |
| 24 | Estates Services are not only providing accommodation for AEA staff , at Harwell they also have some unofficial tenants — a family of little owls . |
| 25 | He was not only helping Vincent but also his father and mother , his sisters , and the mystery woman whose hospital expenses he had just settled . |
| 26 | It is not only knitting machines that do it . |
| 27 | Another strength of using proprietary relational database technology is that we can use many report writers which are available to access that database , not only the accounting data but potentially all of the corporate data to pull out not only accounting reports but reports which combine information as necessary , partly from the accounting system , partly from the sales order processing system , partly from the inventory system , whatever they may be . |
| 28 | I would very much hope that the BBC will be enabled to continue such a service in the future not only monitoring post war circumstances in the Gulf but in discussing the tortuous approach to European Community integration in 1992 . |
| 29 | At an awards ceremony at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in 1974 he castigated those people ‘ who would like to make polytechnics exactly like universities ’ , and who ignored the fact that the polytechnics had the distinctive feature of not only pursuing knowledge for its own sake , but also treating the acquisition of knowledge as ‘ never far removed from its application ’ — and constructing courses of study accordingly . |
| 30 | The schedule , by asking for the residence to have ‘ the requirements of a Nobleman 's Town House ’ with twelve to fourteen bedrooms , a dining room to seat fifty , and a reception suite to accommodate 1,500 guests , was not only ensuring accommodation for official functions , but also attempting to perpetuate the traditional view of the Secretary of State as the embodiment of the Foreign Office ; a view which Hammond was systematically demolishing . |