Example sentences of "[v-ing] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other blackest , other blackest book is on next week , when we shall see Freud , erm psychoanalysing not Woodrow Wilson , but Moses . |
| 2 | It is a moving story that leaves one marvelling not only at the bravery of Middleton himself but that fate had brought so many courageous men together in the one crew . |
| 3 | Page numbering not starting at 1 |
| 4 | Because this is a test of observation and not of memory , make sure you look at each item in relation to the others , noticing not simply the objects themselves but the pattern they form on the tray . |
| 5 | There is room for organising in a non-party political way , and for the creation of umbrella organisations which bring together gay men or people with AIDS , representing not any attempt at service delivery , but a demand for government action . |
| 6 | This , in turn , strengthened the image which Franco wished to convey of the rising , the war and his nascent regime , as representing not individual interests , but the national interest . |
| 7 | It , it was a quite loony lot , but it highlighted to me that , when I speak on radio , I 'm representing not only the Council , the institute and the profession and all that , I never actually am representing me , and that 's the , that 's |
| 8 | As usually happens , the ‘ sponsorship role ’ of the Electricity Division led to Murray becoming not so much a controller of the industry as an honest broker between the BEA and the Whitehall machine in general . |
| 9 | Yet the urge to press on , paradoxically , could lead to questioning becoming not more but less effective and therefore a somewhat inefficient use of the time available . |
| 10 | As political conditions in China became increasingly chaotic in the decade after World War I Aglen found his responsibilities becoming not only more onerous , but also more difficult to carry out without coming into conflict with one or other of the Chinese factions making demands upon him as custodian of revenues of which he was in sole charge . |
| 11 | Afterwards we can become real teachers … by becoming not only wiser , but also better human beings … |
| 12 | Second , the criteria adopted for a good decision are satisficing not maximizing rules . |
| 13 | International law forbids outsiders to intervene in civil wars , and premature recognition of breakaway states is properly seen as interference in the domestic affairs of the state endeavouring not to fragment . |
| 14 | President F. W. de Klerk , in a radical speech at the state opening of Parliament on Feb. 2 , surprised supporters and critics alike by announcing not only the impending release of Nelson Mandela , the long-imprisoned leader of the country 's principal liberation movement , the African National Congress ( ANC ) , but also the unbanning of the ANC , the Pan Africanist Congress ( PAC — the ANC 's smaller rival ) and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) . |
| 15 | The gorge walls , over 50 feet in places , came so close they nearly touched and , below , a river straight out of a canoeist 's toybox , not large by any standards but clean , powerful , unspoilt and appearing not to be reliant on heavy rainfall . |
| 16 | During the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries the skeleton was a recurring motif in funerary art , appearing not only on trade cards and invitations but also on monuments ; its symbolism was profound . |
| 17 | He nodded , appearing not to notice the blush staining her cheeks . |
| 18 | People do not like to see land set aside , with someone appearing not to be doing very much with the land set aside and getting paid for it . |
| 19 | If such links are not built , schooling will suffer from being not only detached from the lifelong vision of education and retraining which is foreseen by the CBI , the TECs and the NCVQ but also from appearing not to care about continuity , feed-through and quality assurance . |
| 20 | Kopyion , appearing not to notice him , continued collecting messages , reading through them quickly and then shredding them . |
| 21 | The stone fell very short , landing not far from his hiding-place . |
| 22 | The Palestinians had been firing Katyusha rockets into Galilee , the missiles landing not far from the Israeli village of Ben Ami where Mrs Zamzam 's Arab village of Um Al-Farajh had once stood . |
| 23 | The Allied raiding forces would include many units with special skills , landing not only on the Channel coast of France but across the world from northern Norway to the South Pacific . |
| 24 | If you know how to read the ocean , it is like looking at the stars : you can see what is happening not only far away but also long ago . |
| 25 | This is happening not just in the ghettoes of American cities where intolerance has become institutionalised . |
| 26 | Though Christian Socialism ‘ with the old Owenites and idealistic Socialists … regarded Co-operative Store keeping not as an end in itself but as a step towards the Co-operative or Socialist Commonwealth … envisaged partly in terms of producers ’ self-government' , the victory had gone to those who stood ‘ against them , the main body of the working-class adherents for whom the Store Movement was a reality and Co-operation mainly an agency for mutual thrift and the procuring of unadulterated goods at fair prices . ’ |
| 27 | Meanwhile , many hoteliers are still puzzling over the more confusing clauses , vowing not to be the first to test them through the courts . |
| 28 | The commander of UN troops in Bosnia , General Philippe Morillon , has been holed up in the town for the past week vowing not to leave until the safety of the inhabitants is assured . |
| 29 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |
| 30 | For example , borrowings under the compensatory finance facility have to be repaid in quarterly instalments beginning three years and ending not later than five years after the date of the borrowings , whereas the enlarged access repayments are required twice a year beginning three and a half years and ending not later than seven years after the date of the borrowings . |