Example sentences of "[conj] not [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All simple & partly lovely women attract me , & not merely attract me , but I want to be something to them . |
| 2 | It would be possible to take the view that clause 12 covered all costs , charges and expenses whether or not improperly incurred . |
| 3 | The question whether to continue training or not invariably depends on the expert and his or her individual belief . |
| 4 | Often this is because the materials are not available , whether because they have been destroyed or not yet revealed . |
| 5 | From his early years , he had been engaged in the creation of a whole world , comparable in scale with the world of Greek mythology , with a pantheon of gods , a hierarchy of elvish immortals , and a vast cycle of stories , some of them ‘ forgotten ’ , or not yet formulated , in his imagination ; some surviving in fragmentary form ; some planned as long prose narratives ; some conceived as great poems , longer than Beowulf The sheer volume of all this , much of it composed before his fortieth birthday , bears testimony to a rare artistic self-confidence . |
| 6 | Most of the world 's cultivable areas are , by comparison , either hardly touched or not yet touched at all . |
| 7 | Because Rotterdam is the distribution port for your cargo whether sold or not yet sold : traders in all kinds of commodities are based here . |
| 8 | But before she could decide whether or not finally to deny it he stopped her in her tracks with another accusation — one that she had definitely not seen coming . |
| 9 | 2. ( 1 ) All other rate swap actions ( whether or not presently constituted ) , including any third party proceedings in such actions ( whether against local authorities , brokers or otherwise ) shall be stayed generally after the close of pleadings in each action or third party proceeding ( as the case may be ) save for third party proceedings in lead actions against third parties . |
| 10 | The problem with implementation in the UK is that the Unfair Contract Terms Act already regulates various types of contractual relationships , namely freely negotiated commercial contracts , commercial contracts on standard terms and conditions and consumer contracts whether or not freely negotiated . |
| 11 | Frequently based on sound experience , these criteria are often implicit or not clearly articulated . |
| 12 | The worst bits in the book raise a suspicion that it was hastily written , or not rigorously edited : ‘ I mean , we were teenagers . |
| 13 | The main problem is never to allow any interpretation to harden into a fixed idea which could prevent any further evidence being given its full value or not even noticed . |
| 14 | There is a strong sense from the surveys that the responsibilities of parenthood are being repudiated or not even understood . |
| 15 | The vast majority of British novelists has dropped the baton , stood still , turned back , or not even realised that there is a race . |
| 16 | There were other examples : Coleridge , Yeats and Browning were some of those caught out not knowing a hawk from a handsaw , or not even knowing what a handsaw was in the first place . |
| 17 | This survey argues that governments have frequently failed , or not even tried , to resist such pressures . |
| 18 | Apart from housing , rent restriction and the like , Wilson flattered me by consulting me on a number of topics , on which I was never slow to express an opinion and never disappointed when that opinion was totally disregarded or not even mentioned . |
| 19 | Finally could I suggest that if the ‘ wolf pack ’ had your credit policy and implications explained to them , then credit refusals might go down a little easier or not even occur . |
| 20 | But nevertheless , you may have different ways of getting from A to B but those different routes may in actual fact give a different set of benefits or perform different functions or not necessarily meet all the needs as you 're setting out to meet . |
| 21 | Whether a particular level of credit payments should be seen as high or not obviously depends on the consumer 's income . |
| 22 | This is that the policy was not an attack on the universities so much as a defence of their interests — whether or not correctly understood by officials and ministers . |
| 23 | Whether or not all meaning can be made explicit in the text is perhaps less critical than the belief that it can and that making it so is a valid scientific enterprise . |
| 24 | It is not to be affected , or not essentially affected , by the norms and outlook of another age . |
| 25 | After the very earliest period of relative non-differentiation of functions , in which the ‘ literary ’ or ‘ artistic ’ had not or not fully separated out from the more generally ‘ cultural ’ , there had been this phase of specifically instituted artists , which should not really be described in terms taken from later phases , such as ‘ official recognition ’ or ‘ patronage ’ . |
| 26 | Moving now to lesser developed countries , a general review of conservation programmes of Algeria , Tunisia and Morocco ( Bensalem in FAO 1977a : 159 ) concludes that ‘ soil conservation practices in North Africa have been focussed mainly on corrective mechanical measures , which in most cases have been insufficient or not suitably adapted to counter erosion problems ’ He goes on , like so many other commentators , about the lack of applied knowledge of both the appropriate technical options ( e.g. the successional capacity of the native plant cover which can be used to rehabilitate degraded land ) , but also , very significantly , ‘ there are soil conservation and dune afforestation schemes dating back thirty years , some succeeding and others failing , but without explanation of why ’ ( p. 159 ) . |
| 27 | The adoral shields are rectangular to wing-like just or not quite separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 28 | It was n't that this dispute between my dad and me about whether there was a God or not really meant anything any more , but rather the fact of the history of the dispute — the reality of its course , not the substance of the original disagreement — was what prevented me from ending it . |
| 29 | Does the idea of joining the Stamp Bug Club , interest you a lot , interest you a little or not really interest you at all ? |
| 30 | This innovation was quickly adopted and greatly facilitated the singing of all four parts ( whether or not instrumentally supported ) . |