Example sentences of "n't [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 With relief Suzi had departed back to Hochhauser , feeling she had n't altogether lost face amongst her fellow students after all , her choice of career was still quite artistic and adventurous , it was still ‘ show business ’ in a way — but also overjoyed to be going home .
2 ‘ I would n't only offer tea and biscuits , not even to you . ’
3 Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’
4 ‘ But we do n't only reflect public opinion , you know .
5 In 1990 Capirossi did n't only have Team Pileri nurturing him .
6 We like to entertain , but these days we would n't necessarily offer meat .
7 He did not shy away from probing questions about his art or sex life ( he has gone to whores for the ‘ psychological experience ’ , claims Illona makes him so hot he can ‘ go again in 5 to 10 minutes ’ , and does n't necessarily think porn stars make better lovers ‘ if two people love each other ’ ) .
8 According to Stephen Auditaire of the Fremont , California-based X Business Group , corporations are adopting X as a component of their PC integration strategy — and that wo n't necessarily affect X-terminal business , as PCs are normally used only for occasional access to corporate databases , not the constant heavy graphical use more suited to X-terminals .
9 That would usually be called an engine , and in a car the engine just burns petrol and produces the mechanical energy in the shaft which turns the wheels , so the course is learning about the nature of mechanical forces and energy , thermal forces and energy and of the conversion of one form of energy to another , and in the process you learn that there are fundamental scientific laws — in particular the second law of thermo-dynamics — which says that you ca n't necessarily go form energy in one form with a hundred percent efficiency to getting it out in another form , so this limitation on your ability to convert from one form into another without waste in fact comes into many , many processes and every day processes .
10 The council 's emergency planning officer , Mike Hill , said : ‘ High tides alone do n't necessarily mean flooding , there has to be a combination of winds and tides , and this may not happen .
11 ‘ A non-appearance at work does n't necessarily mean illness , ’ said the vicar , with what Ianthe considered unbecoming cynicism .
12 Talent does n't necessarily mean facility .
13 This did n't necessarily mean hostility to religion as such .
14 We can incrementally manage our way towards open systems component by component , ’ is his message to users , ‘ but do n't do it all at once — and remember it does n't necessarily mean Unix . ’
15 But finding a person to express this attributes does n't necessarily take care of them .
16 That need n't necessarily increase trade across countries just bec could possibly become er , more self sufficient .
17 ‘ The executive directors at NatWest were tremendously supportive but we did n't necessarily need support , we needed experienced guidance .
18 We have n't long had tea !
19 Mark Burke the second … the last few minutes were frightening … but thankfully Wolves 2-1 win was n't enough to stop Town going through 3-2 on aggregate …
20 It is n't enough to give aid .
21 And , because 400 years of Christianity have n't entirely obliterated caste , this will be to a Christian of Brahmin stock .
22 It was true she had n't entirely trusted Fixit .
23 He does n't entirely dismiss leadership as a meaningless term , however .
24 So obviously if er if Mississippi wants some federal money for a project they 're not gon na get it unless there are civil rights provisions built into the , into the project that is , you know , you ca n't just give dole out to white people and refuse it to black people erm that there has to be equal opportunities and so on .
25 assume that if you give them a population that owned seventy eight percent of the land and find out fifty percent of the land , then you , you know , you ca n't just give land , everyone 's not just gon na have land , you have to increase production to make everyone better off .
26 Y equals log X squared you ca n't just picture log X.
27 So that they make it as though , as though it does n't just go fringe and then down , it sort of
28 Ca n't just sort judge
29 Trucks did n't just set fire to themselves .
30 With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together .
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