Example sentences of "[not/n't] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But not everyone here thinks the answer is to dig up the fields and destroy the character of the community . |
| 2 | Not everyone unfortunately has children so you may have to cast around for other members of the family . |
| 3 | But then , it was not his good looks that made him famous . |
| 4 | Not his early work , of course , but many of his productions in Salzburg in the 1920s . |
| 5 | No that 's not I just thought to change a wash , cos I think they 've been on there rather a long time . |
| 6 | Erm yes , Mr Chairman I should like to apologise to Bob for interrupting him then because er the enthusiasm about the green code business of course has to do with the Hatfield community project and is not initiated by Welwyn Hatfield when in the use er Herts County Council Paul in the community project , but nevertheless the green cone idea is the individual person , it 's not the District Council and it 's not somebody else taking a taking green erm green type away for composting . |
| 7 | Is it symbolic of a theme or topic that is not itself explicitly mentioned in the passage ? |
| 8 | It may well be that he could be described as a statutory tenant ; but that description would not itself accurately define his precise position , for he was a statutory tenant against whom a final order had been made , under which possession was to be delivered up on a fixed date , 3 April 1950 , he having died on the previous 8 March . |
| 9 | She also wants to exercise to improve muscle tone during this period ; she can then see what shape she is in at the end of the year before she decides whether or not she really does need to lose those extra 4 lb ( 1.8 kg ) . |
| 10 | Cleo asked impulsively , unsure whether or not she really wanted to . |
| 11 | In the first instance it is important to establish whether or not you actually need ‘ desktop publishing ’ as portrayed by the advertisers . |
| 12 | More often than not you only need the bottom window out because most wardrobes 'll go out that way you see . |
| 13 | Cases like the latter are usually termed diglossic Variants ( Ferguson , 1964 ) , although not everything so called has either the strict co-occurrence rules distinguishing levels or the restrictions in use that formal Tamil has . |
| 14 | The experience was not one much enjoyed by the Labour party , certain sections of which were extremely hostile to the arrangement . |
| 15 | We may not one further point . |
| 16 | Remember this was many years ago , so the magazine in question was a general craft magazine , not one especially written for machine knitting — those were very thin on the ground at that tine , in fact there was only one in this country . |
| 17 | It 's not one long ski holiday for the team . |
| 18 | This is hardly a satisfactory conclusion and not one seriously intended by the doctrine itself . |
| 19 | But a rational discussion with the young Pardy was not something easily achieved . |
| 20 | Broadcasting talent is not something easily tested by civil service examinations or recruitment procedures . |
| 21 | I mean perhaps it 's not something there used to doing too much , but is it not possible to get them to amuse themselves ? |
| 22 | So Demosthenes ( Thuc. iv.2.4 : this man is a fifth-century soldier , not the famous fourth-century politician ) is explicitly told to use his fleet round the Peloponnese ‘ as he thought fit ’ ; he took Pylos with it ( p. 132 ) , an act which Thucydides implies was more extempore than it really was , but which was nevertheless not something specifically authorized by the Assembly . |
| 23 | As far as er the honourable gentleman for Edinburgh Central is concerned , he said there was a case for a wider inquiry into the auditing o of companies , well that is not something specifically called for er by Bingham although I acknowledge that a case can be made for that but I think we want to be extremely careful before extending that in the way that he and the honourable member for Great Grimsby proposed beyond the direct er responsibility to the members or the owners of the company . |
| 24 | The electorate may have the power to choose the members of the House of Commons but the will of the electorate is not something formally recognized by the courts . |
| 25 | Occasionally we hear of staff abuse and there is outrage , but more often than not we simply do not think of what it means to be old or shut away . |
| 26 | believe it or not we even had fifty pound towards that which is a bloody miracle . |
| 27 | Yet the programmers and the educational technologists are undoubtedly right when they insist that current trends and changes in education require more systematic thinking , whether or not we always adopt on every occasion their particular model for it . |
| 28 | Searching this database on the company name will tell you whether or not we currently maintain a file for them . |
| 29 | So they made home but whether he killed the man or not we never knew . |
| 30 | Should not we now bend our efforts to supporting the proposal that the Minister mentioned and to finding some way of compensating those who have lost dearly ? |