Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could not sensibly plan ahead for a doomsday-type catastrophe . |
| 2 | The use of a particular language does not necessarily coincide either with a group that claims common descent , or a geographical area or what is supposedly a culture . |
| 3 | Conservative legislation in 1986 has extended the scope for contracting out , allowing schemes which do not necessarily compete favourably with the state scheme and also reducing the benefits available under SERPS . |
| 4 | However , the exhibition does not necessarily refer back to the previous event , and there is hardly ever a sense of continuing from where the previous exhibition left off . |
| 5 | A Rumbelows spokesman said the £10,000 jackpot would not necessarily go straight into the champion 's bank balance . |
| 6 | It will not necessarily do so in a judicial manner ; a matter with party political implications may well result in voting following party lines . |
| 7 | Even so-called ‘ fundamentalists ’ usually insist that although it is an axiom of faith that God really created the world , he did not necessarily do so in a literal six days of twenty-four hours each . |
| 8 | And ensure that your client prepares the plans to a reasonable scale , not too small or too large — if on a size A4 page that will not only annex conveniently to a lease or transfer of part but will also facilitate the taking of photocopies . |
| 9 | But remember , sugar does not only come out of a packet . |
| 10 | Either that , or he could waylay one of the match officials and help run the line where he could not only point out to the referee the error of his ways but also use a brightly-coloured flag to do so . |
| 11 | Their mode of calculation has definite effects on industrial enterprises , but they do not generally intervene actively in the determination of company policy . |
| 12 | As a result , more than three-quarters of its considerable rainfall does not easily run off to the sea . |
| 13 | The Kenyan government could not believe the duty-free photographic chain would not somehow leak out into the economy . |
| 14 | Waldegrave can not just walk away from the plan to install in the LEP tunnel the Large Hadron Collider , part of whose promise is success in the hunt for the Higgs boson . |
| 15 | Of course , we can not just get out of the routines and struggles and problems we are already engaged in . |
| 16 | It can not just point smugly to the late-flowering green shoots of recovery and wait for economic summer to arrive . |
| 17 | Annesley Brittanias did not normally venture away from the Nottingham to London semi-fasts but 70048 had worked a freight to Staveley . |
| 18 | Decisions on allocation do not usually depend solely upon the pupil 's attainment in school but often take account of such factors as pupil motivation and behaviour . |
| 19 | We ca n't not ever go down to the beach again , or to the spinney . " |
| 20 | ( Yet again it must be said — an argument which does not directly arise out of a golden thread approach but which is pertinent here — the two passages in the new testament which speak of women 's subordination both rely on the Genesis account of creation and fall , an account no longer valid in a post-Darwinian age . ) |
| 21 | Friend not lose sight of the fact that need does not always exist only in the inner areas of a city . ’ |
| 22 | It must be remembered that an important objective for the financial institutions is to sell their services , and this aim may not always coincide exactly with the interests of those learning how best to buy those services ( and , sometimes , learning when it is best not to buy them ) . |
| 23 | Children assign distinct meanings to distinct forms , but the distinctions they make early on do not always coincide exactly with the conventional adult ones . |
| 24 | These stages relate to the spiritual exercises which embrace reading of scripture ( lectio ) , meditation ( meditatio ) , prayer and contemplation although those who use this terminology do not always do so in a precisely similar denotative way . |
| 25 | Aesthetic and romantic ideas of the beneficent properties of ‘ natural ’ remedies do not always stand up to the realities of practical life . |
| 26 | Indeed the habits of our civilised forebears at work and play would not always stand up to the scrutiny of the modern conscience . |
| 27 | The kind of variation revealed by occasional spellings as primary evidence does not always fit comfortably into the standard historical linguistic mould , and so it has often seemed convenient to ignore it or explain it away , sometimes on the grounds that variability of the kind apparently attested is ‘ impossible ’ . |
| 28 | They do not always transfer easily to the public sector . |
| 29 | Always select popular groups and rugs which represent a reasonable cross-section of the sizes and prices ranges on offer ( i.e. from a small nomadic rug to a workshop carpet ) , because prices do not always fluctuate evenly across the board . |
| 30 | If the results did not always work out in the way intended , the blame for the failings of the criminal justice system can not be attributed to any lack of zeal to legislate . |