Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb infin] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since railways were built anywhere , they could not necessarily rely on a local labour-force , but developed a corps of nomadic labourers ( known in Britain as the ‘ navvies ’ ) , such as still characterises the great construction projects all over the world . |
| 32 | Conservationists maintain that the pet trade would not necessarily suffer from a ban on imports , as 85 per cent of domestic birds are bred in captivity . |
| 33 | And I think that whereas erm we would not necessarily argue with a case for providing criteria at a strategic plan at a structure plan level erm to put some flesh on what is meant and maybe clarify some of the explanatory memorandum in a more positive way , simply should ensure that the policy does not dilute , sorry that whatever changes emerge , does not dilute the mode intention of the policy . |
| 34 | As such , they may be more appropriate for urban areas , where most of the housing in any area tends to be of a similar age and type and the blanket effect of the area-based policy will at least have some logical basis ( although even in inner cities problems do not necessarily come in a spatially concentrated form — see Smith 1979a ) . |
| 35 | Of this view of bilingualism , Martin-Jones ( 1991 : 50 ) writes : " As the empirical work in bilingual communities has developed , it has become clear that the languages within the communicative repertoire of bilingual minority groups do not necessarily fall into a neat pattern of complementary distribution across domains . " |
| 36 | There is a similar departure from the notion of a fixed sequence of modes of production and their corresponding political and cultural forms in recent works which concentrate their attention upon specific types of political regime which do not necessarily fall within a single time span . |
| 37 | The Court of Appeal held that a manslaughter verdict would not necessarily follow from a conviction for wilful neglect : |
| 38 | You can easily enough slip in a clue in two quick words somewhere , but when at the end of a book you say that your detective solved the case from noticing that one briefly-stated fact , the reader will experience a sense of let-down . |
| 39 | This exploratory and performance-based approach will not only lead to a deeper understanding of the text in question ( a dramatic exploration of a speech in Shakespeare , for instance , will show how the placing of different emphases can alter fundamentally one 's interpretation of character or meaning ) , but will also lead to an understanding of the play as theatre . |
| 40 | Suddenly a new perspective began to open before the young Prince ; he could not only dream of a Bonapartist cause , he could himself become the representative of that cause . |
| 41 | Deviation from such norms and mores will not only result in a social storm around both the adult and child concerned but may interfere with the child 's normal development according to normal modes of life and upbringing — in other words may affect libidinal development as this must be expected in our culture . |
| 42 | ‘ Be not cast down : if ye saw Him , who is standing on the shore holding out His arms to welcome you to land , you would not only wade through a sea of wrongs , but through hell itself , to be at Him . ’ |
| 43 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 44 | Brutus says that if Caesar is crowned he will not only turn into a dangerous animal , but it will allow him to harm the public . |
| 45 | Such a reformulation would not only call for a reassessment of traditional notions and practices — balance , impartiality , objectivity , ownership , editorial sovereignty — but would also require the media to improve upon their present performances in explaining events in the world . |
| 46 | The 41-year-old duke said last night : ‘ I can not morally stay within a party which I fundamentally believe has ideologically gone off the rails . ’ |
| 47 | If we are asking when the issue of who were England 's legitimate rulers was resolved , then the answer can clearly not be 1660 or 1688 ; 1715 , with the failure of the Jacobite rebellion might have a strong claim , although there are some scholars who would maintain that Jacobitism continued to be a significant threat thereafter , so that the succession did not finally disappear as a political issue until after the failure of the rebellion in 1745 . |
| 48 | The engine produces an uneven cacophony of rattles , misfires and exhaust bark which , together with the odd puff of oil smoke from the crankcase breather , do not exactly say to a pilot , ‘ You can trust me , chief ’ , nor instil any confidence in the outcome of the next few minutes . |
| 49 | However , current research shows that early humans did not generally rely on a meat diet , but that plant foods were at least as important : far from being mighty hunters , early humans are more likely to have been opportunist scavengers . |
| 50 | The studious intensity of learning a craft together , the long and fanciful discussions about the philosophies of life that were prevalent topics , and the unorthodoxy of their nightlife did not easily transfer to a happy-families home . |
| 51 | It does not just consist of a single transition from to for each rotational level ; it includes lots of lines due to transitions with , where J is the general rotational quantum number . |
| 52 | After Lamb had blown the whistle on the Pakistanis Dexter seemed to want to wash his hands of anything Lamb was doing — suggesting that the Northants captain 's forthright comments would not just end with a fine and a suspension from his County bosses . |
| 53 | ‘ But you do not just march into a druggist 's and demand atropine , ’ objected Auguste . |
| 54 | You can not just hop on a train in Sweden , but must think about it carefully and purchase a ticket in advance . |
| 55 | However , it should not just act as a check-list but should relate facts about a country to the expatriate 's new life style . |
| 56 | The scope of a pro-active search will not normally extend to a fully detailed analysis of a specific company , competitors , forecasts etc . |
| 57 | The scope of a pro-active search will not normally extend to a fully detailed analysis of a specific company , competitors , forecasts etc . |
| 58 | Since water does not normally exist as a liquid below its freezing point , any point on this curve represents water in a metastable condition . |
| 59 | What it seems to mean is that evolution did not normally proceed by a process of gradual change of one species into another over long periods of time . |
| 60 | IBM UK , which does not normally report until a month or more after its parent , presumably thought it would be best to get all the bad news out of the way at the same time . |