Example sentences of "[adv] not [adv] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 This attitude reflects badly on the conference service industry and demonstrates that it has still not fully come to terms with the need for quality and a caring approach in its business .
2 In the forthright style that has helped to earn him his reputation , he said that politicians are sick people , that they have a profound characters fault , and that their main objective is to keep their jobs ( does the later at least not also apply to economists , one might wonder ? ) .
3 The issues raised there not only go to the root of the relationships between adults and children but also raise the issue of political control in general and in particular , the rights and duties of individuals to confront a sense of injustice .
4 Labour 's trade and industry spokesman , Mr Gordon Brown , asked how the Government could pay £150 million in compensation and yet not even apologise for its mistakes .
5 If they really did n't care , why not just opt for a serge skirt or Crimplene slacks on special offer from the back of the Radio Times ?
6 In the case of the ten out of 50 students , why not just think of a number from one to ten and then take every tenth name from there on ?
7 Why not just pay for the information like anyone else ?
8 Well , it is summertime and if you have trouble getting time on the courts here in town and tripping to the Hamptons presents a problem why not simply go to Terry Dintenfass where the witty William King he of the loopy lanky aluminoids has set up a gallery-wide installation called ‘ Tennis : The Monument ’ ?
9 But why not simply pay in ingots ?
10 Better still , why not simply fly to Athens from here and charter another boat from the Kalamaki marina ? ’
11 The team thus took a much more radical , class , view of the problems facing residents in working-class communities and did not see themselves simply responding to any educational need or demand : ‘ … the educationalist should be forced to recognise his responsibility to intervene positively and constructively not just respond to any demand ’ .
12 I had never met her American , but of course with my prejudices I had to be on Henry 's side , and I was therefore not much help to her .
13 Winnicott observed that such ‘ transitional objects ’ were important , precisely because they may appear to the infant as not fully part of the external world , and therefore not entirely separate from the child 's own body .
14 A region dominated by branch assembly facilities and devoid of senior decision-makers , in contrast , is likely not only suffer from a sense of remoteness from those who control its destiny , but will also tend to lack social diversity and cultural vitality .
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