Example sentences of "[noun pl] not [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pre-literate peoples not only agree with modern taxonomists about species , but in at least some cases agree in identifying the same higher categories . |
| 2 | This has guaranteed not only resources but also access to national databases not always open to others . |
| 3 | There were several discernible influences at work here — one was undoubtedly her father 's piping , which suggested decorations to the melodic line at North-east songs not always accustomed to such , and the other was acquaintance with young English revival singers who had incorporated into their singing styles something of the sean nos tradition of the West of Ireland . |
| 4 | These kids not only knew about rock'n'roll , they could play it . |
| 5 | Care should be taken in ensuring that any funds not immediately required for either the building of a new church or other charitable purposes are invested in what are known as qualifying investments as prescribed in Sch 20 Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 6 | Undaunted , the 1918 Education Act made provision for local authorities to begin to open such schools for all 14–16 year-olds not otherwise engaged in full-time secondary education . |
| 7 | The consequence of this is ambiguity , since parallelisms and symmetries of meaning are imposed on sets of words not normally connected in this way in ordinary language . |
| 8 | She looked with horror at the fingers which had cruelly raked Bill Yardley 's face , and heard her own voice uttering words not even fit to be heard in the alleys . |
| 9 | This difference can not be attributed to more enlightened guessing when subjects knew the title because recall of words closely related to the title and of words not closely related to the title was equally improved . |
| 10 | This gives the spelling of words not always included in other dictionaries , e.g. kidnapped . |
| 11 | These traces not only witness to a sad history , but also hint of glorious possibilities . |
| 12 | Normally the sale of books is confined to the sale of fiction and factual books not directly related to any course of study . |
| 13 | In the generation of the inventors of red-figure the Lysippides ( Andokides ) Painter and a companion of Psiax , the Antimenes Painter , head the principal workshops , specialising in neck-amphorae and hydriai , shapes not much used in early red-figure . |
| 14 | You may feel depressed when your work is returned to you , feel a failure , but magazine editors reject work for lots of different reasons not all connected with the quality of the work . |
| 15 | Hilton says they turn away from involvement in the world , and , in words which more immediately evoke the liberation and peace which are the goals of the rigours of contemplative life , he says that they : That is , they rid themselves from involvement with any possessions not strictly needed for physical survival and escape from the demands and goals of social success to a different kind of service . |
| 16 | It will be a wider Europe that is a community of sovereign states not artificially welded into a super-state . |
| 17 | Sorting through stock on library shelves usually involves a number of other activities not strictly described by the term ‘ weeding ’ — for instance , identifying books for binding , replacement , cleaning , etc . |
| 18 | ‘ War and rape are two activities not widely engaged in by women . ’ |
| 19 | Some concerns the basic methodological pitfalls surrounding any project of this kind — the lack of proper controls , over-readiness to read richer interpretations into bits of behaviour than a more rigorous viewpoint would endorse , even experimenters ' proneness , given their wishful thinking , to be manipulated by their hairy charges into taking up certain attitudes not properly grounded in the available evidence . |
| 20 | Indeed , it was on those occasions when Branson had invested in projects not obviously related to the pop milieu that the losses had been greatest ; clothes , restaurants , Event magazine . |
| 21 | Some parts of the country showed more significant growth than others : on the east coast , the number of sailings not only rose in absolute terms between the 1460s and the early sixteenth century , but the proportion of those by English ships approximately doubled , although there were some exports which were largely carried in foreign vessels . |
| 22 | There has been no credible claim of responsibility so far for the blasts , many of which were caused by car bombs not previously used in India . |
| 23 | However , the location of planets not yet released from survey classification was information restricted to members of the Survey Service . |
| 24 | More generally , the link between the last three sections of this book is Tolkien 's perception , from Pearl and from poems like it , that poetry does not reduce to plain sense ( so far most critics would agree with him ) , but furthermore that this is because words have over the centuries acquired meanings not easily traced in dictionaries , available however to many native speakers , and ( this is where many critics part company ) at times breaking through the immediate intentions of even poetic users . |
| 25 | The first three have already been handed over and are by artists not formerly represented in east German museums : Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Emil Schumacher and Fritz Winter . |
| 26 | We tested this out by taking it around the office and the people in the office thought it was a bit boring we er thought it was great for the youngsters who probably like it so er erm and the merchandise we 've actually , we 've made up certain things , T-shirts and , and , and wacky items that again er relate to , to young people so that they get into the , the , the theme of the thing and the , the whole year carries forward on a , on a certain colour theme and , and , and so on , so er we 've done our best as sailing coaches not only learning to be marketeers again the money , where 's the money come from ? |
| 27 | All very enterprising , but within six months , with the builders not far advanced into the job , the Helvetian government decided to move to Lucerne . |
| 28 | He showed some incredible coloured slides giving close-up detail of petal formation and patterns not often seen by the naked eye . |
| 29 | At an individual or party level discourses not only mediate between material conditions and their interpretation but can organise experience itself . |
| 30 | Willis is at pains to point out , however , that this breaking of rules not only relies on having the rules there to break but ensures that ‘ the lads ’ condemn themselves to the worst jobs once they have left school . |