Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A real rate of interest , which would be calculated as an annual rate per cent , takes into account the following facts : — the period of the loan may not be for a full year : interest is only charged on the actual amount borrowed ( eg not including any deposit paid ) ; — if regular repayments are being made , the full amount of the loan is not outstanding over the full year . |
| 2 | In the First World War Britain experienced conscription for the first time , and the mobilization not only of the whole work force but also of many women , hitherto not in employment , to assist the war effort . |
| 3 | They are furthermore not on the ends of words but in the middle : ‘ mariner/tarried in ’ , ‘ timber felled/Nimbrethil ’ , ‘ silver fair/silver were ’ , ‘ like a swan/light upon ’ . |
| 4 | I lay back , stiff not with fear but with social embarrassment . |
| 5 | You better not of scratched that door . |
| 6 | Better not to . |
| 7 | Better not to . |
| 8 | Successful , when they would have done better not to be so successful . |
| 9 | Meditation and Maoism were very much not for us . |
| 10 | It was n't , you know , it was n't very much not in in those days . |
| 11 | He also asked for a rule change to allow the cleaning of golf balls on the greens — as allowed at some clubs — but apparently not at Henley . |
| 12 | Hatton had been ill and at that time apparently not in funds . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't be such a nincompoop , ’ Madeleine retorted , apparently not in the least disconcerted . |
| 14 | Now I see him coming back in the middle of the afternoon , with , I hope , a railway sandwich or two inside him , apparently not in the least put out at being employed as a busboy . |
| 15 | In February 1980 the Afghan Foreign Minister argued that ‘ the presence of foreign troops in a country , especially when it is requested by that country , is basically not against the principles of non-alignment ’ . |
| 16 | He would n't be too keen on bumping into anyone , especially not with the cargo he had on board . |
| 17 | He could n't rise into that great openness which was only inches above his head where the wind blew free … and especially not with that vow he had made holding him back . |
| 18 | Especially not with you . ’ |
| 19 | Him and me work as a team , you know , I do n't do any freelance jobs , especially not with a pair of low-down — ’ |
| 20 | Especially not with James it sounds , it sounds like she fancies him . |
| 21 | You do n't want to antagonize rich and powerful Emissaries , especially not on their own ship in deep space . |
| 22 | Especially not on an empty stomach . ’ |
| 23 | Shifting to a patient-driven health system was never going to be easy — especially not for the Tories . |
| 24 | On the Macca front … he wont go to Torino … especially not for a misely 750,000 |
| 25 | I do n't think they got a true picture , especially not of C1 , because the staff reacted in a helluva different way to when the cameras were n't there . |
| 26 | And especially not of aiming it at one of his friends . |
| 27 | Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government . |
| 28 | And especially not to my aunt . ’ |
| 29 | But he found himself unable to say it , especially not to this so very obvious gentlewoman . |
| 30 | The 1980s have not been kind to Bolivia — and especially not to its devastated tin-mining communities . |