Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without foreign or extraneous admixture ; free from anything not properly pertaining to it ; homogeneous , unalloyed . |
| 2 | Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it . |
| 3 | It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go . |
| 4 | Lord Callaghan , when he was Prime Minister , made the point that he was not necessarily going to be merely the post box in the system . |
| 5 | First of all , the coins are not necessarily going to be a representative sample from a particular site , because it is unlikely that the whole find complex will be recovered . |
| 6 | Medicines made from natural products , he points out , are not necessarily going to be cheaper than drugs made synthetically . |
| 7 | The only problem with that is that it 's not necessarily going to be accepted . |
| 8 | And diagnosis is very , very important that , if you have a medical , clinical state of depression try and pull yourself out of it , by your , your own efforts and doing alternative things is not necessarily going to be effective . |
| 9 | But er can you see you 've got to make up your mind what it is , it 's not necessarily going to be easy . |
| 10 | Jerry so he said he had n't seen but he 's not necessarily going to . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not necessarily going to be present in our relationship for the rest of our lives . |
| 12 | The rise in wages was therefore not basically damaging to profitability . |
| 13 | You know , if the erm that if the family think you 're going to actually take the child off them because they 're not looking after it properly , then I mean obviously they 're not perhaps going to be as frank with you as they might otherwise . |
| 14 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 15 | Paragliding is a sport most of us would consider dangerous , not so according to as long as you do n't fly outwith your limitations . |
| 16 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 17 | Choose your type of moisturiser , not only according to your skin type , but also in relation to the climate . |
| 18 | Rousseau was keenly aware that majority decisions , or even unanimous ones , are not necessarily right — right , that is , not only according to the moral criteria of any particular individual but from the point of view of the good of the community itself . |
| 19 | The hope is that the professionals who are part of the group are not only listening to but also acting on the ideas that are put forward by members of the group . |
| 20 | This is not only damaging to the final exam marks of the Student ( since a Student who had managed 60% in the Final Examination could fail because their End of Module Tests reduce the mark ) , but foolish , since they can take as many retakes of the End of Module Tests as they wish in order to achieve a good pass-mark . |
| 21 | The spark that arises between Vronsky and Anna proves not only damaging to Karenin ( Anna 's husband ) but also to the young Kitty Shcherbatsky , who seeing Vronsky as a possible suitor , was in love with him . |
| 22 | We tested this out by taking it around the office and the people in the office thought it was a bit boring we er thought it was great for the youngsters who probably like it so er erm and the merchandise we 've actually , we 've made up certain things , T-shirts and , and , and wacky items that again er relate to , to young people so that they get into the , the , the theme of the thing and the , the whole year carries forward on a , on a certain colour theme and , and , and so on , so er we 've done our best as sailing coaches not only learning to be marketeers again the money , where 's the money come from ? |
| 23 | So I 'm I 'm not only going to be asking the conference office about what 's there , but I 'm going to be going and asking individuals even if we ca n't record your keynote speech here , will you be able to record us interviews , will you be able to record us whatever else . |
| 24 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 25 | It should be an inconvenience which ‘ materially interferes with the ordinary comfort of human existence , not merely according to elegant or dainty modes and habits of living , but according to plain and sober and simple notions among the English people ’ . |
| 26 | When Richard Crossman described secrecy as the British disease , he was not merely referring to the terms of the Official Secrets Act . |
| 27 | WHEN citizens of the Irish Republic bestow sainthood on Jack Charlton , thinking him to be perhaps the most significant figure in their sporting history , they are not merely responding to what he has already achieved with the national football team . |
| 28 | As J. K. Galbraith ( 1979 ) has pointed out the adman actually creates markets and implants ‘ needs ’ in people ; he is not merely responding to consumer demand . |
| 29 | Though we may become more irritable and find life 's demands more stressful , loss of sleep is not physically damaging to the body . |
| 30 | The preamble further asserts that the company are making ‘ considerable progress ’ on the remaining portion of the main line between Bishop 's Castle and the Cambrian , which is not exactly according to fact , in as far as the term ‘ considerable progress ’ is popularly understood . |