Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1945 he announced Japan 's surrender on the radio : ‘ The war situation has developed not necessarily to our advantage . ’ |
| 2 | The law has treated not only Rodney King with no respect , but also the people with no respect . |
| 3 | Bedworth has pled not guilty to three hacking offences . |
| 4 | Green has pled not guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to murdering his wife , Julie , 24 , by clubbing her to death with a lump hammer in a storeroom at the rear of their home in Gidlow Lane , Wigan , in October 1991 . |
| 5 | Unemployment has fallen not only in Wales but in Scotland and in the northern region and I hope that it will soon fall elsewhere , too . |
| 6 | Further to the very unsatisfactory replies that the Minister has given not only to me but , earlier , to my hon. Friends the Members for Glasgow , Pollok ( Mr. Dunnachie ) and for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) , may I ask whether the Government consider the Indonesian occupation of East Timor to be illegal ? |
| 7 | It has been tough going , finding out things about myself which were buried deep but with ministry from the leaders and looking to God for answers I believe he has healed not only my drug problem but has cleansed me from sin so that I feel clean . |
| 8 | Most of the technical legal controversy has concerned not the more serious varieties of indecent assault but the more ambiguous forms , where the element of indecency is used to separate the sexual offence from the non-sexual . |
| 9 | Community care has disappointed not just because social work — or other professional time — has been at a premium , but because services have been lacking . |
| 10 | On the other hand , Charles Mackerras ' wonderful pot-pourri of tunes from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas for Pineapple Poll displayed how well he has caught not only the humour but also the pathos of The Bum Boat Woman 's Story . |
| 11 | Robert O'Mahoney 's King , a ‘ dynamotologist ’ — ‘ self-realisation , you know ? ’ — is the picture of a man floundering around in the deep end of life , who has forgotten not only how to swim , but even where he left his life jacket . |
| 12 | It has attracted not only widespread condemnation but a fair amount of sociological analysis as well with the result that there is a lively debate taking place about its origins and nature . |
| 13 | Ironically , the Halls ' major income in 1992 has come not from audiences but from recording companies . |
| 14 | Everyone is familiar with the famously awkward passage in which he announces that he has come not to bring peace , but a sword . |
| 15 | Evidence which also points in the same direction has come not from critics but from within the Kandel group itself . |
| 16 | Indeed the tenacity of Roman concrete and mortar was so great that today , in the ruined buildings of the Empire , it can be seen that it is the stone which has fractured not the material which binds it . |
| 17 | This chapter has argued not only for the compatibility of faith with intellectual uncertainty , but even for the necessity of such uncertainty for faith . |
| 18 | Nathan has said not to say his name . |
| 19 | This report Mr Chairman is already history which is as Mr has said not to say it does n't represent progress , it addresses for the first time the historical issues , it starts to address the lessons of the first quarter . |
| 20 | Throughout the 1980s , Sudan has suffered not only from the disruption caused by its own civil conflict but has also experienced influxes of refugees from surrounding countries — Uganda , Ethiopia and Chad — driven by drought and war . |
| 21 | It jumped headfirst into the 1980s property boom and is now paying the price : the ebbing tide has revealed not only severe recession damage , but also gaping holes which should have been plugged years ago . |
| 22 | of national product ; since 1979 , it has averaged not 6 per cent . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 24 | MR DAVID Waddington , the Home Secretary , has decided not to reopen the Birmingham Six pub bombings case despite an appeal by the city 's leading churchmen . |
| 25 | It was extraordinary , he said , given the bill 's political sensitivity , ‘ that Mr MacGregor has decided not to serve on the committee . |
| 26 | ‘ And Carl has decided not to play in the Top 12 because of a commitment with his German League team . |
| 27 | Against the advice of BR 's senior managers , he has decided not to sell BR in a single lump . |
| 28 | It is easy to see why Mr Smith has decided not to target investment income . |
| 29 | Rose Hill could do well in the women 's event now that last year 's champion from Denmark , Connie Hansen , has decided not to take part this time . |
| 30 | BRITAIN 's government has decided not to give £6 million to a plan to build a cyclotron , a machine providing a controversial cancer therapy , at St Thomas 's Hospital in London . |