Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adv] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an important issue which needs addressing given that commissioning authorities are not particularly accountable to the public and that an increasing proportion of purchasing power has devolved to general practitioner fundholders , who are not necessarily geographically distributed in proportion to need . |
| 2 | Although individual client executives tend to favour dealing with known consultants , if those consultants leave their firms , they are not necessarily then seen in the same light , or as having the same resources at their disposal . |
| 3 | However this definition firmly identifies the contribution of physical geographers to the investigation of soils as primarily a historical or global one and that is not necessarily unanimously accepted in all the books produced by physical geographers in the 1970s ( Table 5.1 ) . |
| 4 | The French Agriculture Minister , Henri Nallet , said that the ban , which his United Kingdom counterpart John Gummer described as " unwarranted , unjustified and contrary to EC law " , would be lifted as soon as he had satisfactory guarantees that BSE ( not hitherto officially confirmed in French cattle ) posed no threat to human health . |
| 5 | Finally , another highly individualistic album : ‘ Metamorphosis ’ by the World Saxophone Quartet ( Elektra-Nonesuch ) ; not so well known in the UK as an ensemble , its members — David Murray ( tenor sax , bass clarinet ) , Oliver Lake ( alto , soprano saxophones and flute ) , Hamiet Bluiett ( baritone sax ) and Arthur Blythe ( alto sax ) — are however individually ( and , as you will find , jointly ) something rather special . |
| 6 | Sussman and McNeilage ( 1975a ) argued that whereas receptive aspects of language are lateralised to the left hemisphere , production of language is not so clearly lateralised in stutterers as it is in normals . |
| 7 | In due course , when all available information on the releases of polonium-210 and other nuclides not so far incorporated in the analysis has been assimilated , the board will publish a revised assessment of the radiological implications of environmental releases from the Windscale fire . |
| 8 | Certainly their substance should be accessible to anyone not so far gone in the contemplation of astrology — a science , so it is widely held , on the cogent grounds that its practitioners use computers — homeopathy , aromatherapy , or telekinesis as to be beyond the reach of reason . |
| 9 | She was not so far gone in the sinful practice of dissimulation that she felt free to claim that she meant to ask them because she knew Betty would be pleased , and she could think of no other remotely credible reason for doing so . |
| 10 | But to be fair to Green it was from his burning wish for people to admire the scenery , not from a desire to spoil it , that he made these suggestions , which certainly are not so far fetched in the 20th century as they must have been then . |
| 11 | Etroplus suratensis known as the Green Chromide is a species of cichlid not so commonly kept in the hobby . |
| 12 | The siren , a metre-long amphibian from the southern United States , has lost its back legs altogether and its front legs are not only greatly reduced in size but have no bones within them , merely cartilage , so that they are of no practical use in locomotion . |
| 13 | The do be construction does not correspond in any simple way to standard English forms of BE ( as is clear if an attempt is made to ‘ translate ’ the second example ) , but encodes aspectual distinctions which are not always syntactically marked in standard English ( Kallen 1986 ; J. Harris 1984 ) . |
| 14 | But elsewhere the situation is far less clear , partly for lack of detailed evidence and partly because the boundary is not always precisely defined in archaeologically recognizable terms . |
| 15 | The general principle governing the work is that the determination of income of different groups is subject to identifiable , changeable ‘ rules ’ ( which are not always explicitly stated in any formal way ) . |
| 16 | In framing its policies for the future , we hope that the Council will fully acknowledge the importance of the land use planning system , something which is not clearly enough stated in Threshold 21 . |
| 17 | A full range of types of rented accommodation is also found : in addition to houses , bungalows , flats and bedsitters of all ages , there are some types of dwelling not as commonly seen in urban areas — caravans and mobile homes , winter-lets and tied accommodation . |
| 18 | English painting as a whole was not as hard hit in the recent shakeout as American or French painting . |
| 19 | This is because computerised information is not as rigidly organised in advance , which means that you can search through it in any way you please . |
| 20 | This , yoked with the survival of unpaid feudal service on the lord 's land , the lord 's continued control of woodlands , common land , open fields and meadows used for grazing , and the continued obligation of the tenant to consume only alcohol which had been distilled through the lord 's own stills , meant that while in theory Prussian serfdom was abolished by 1850 , in practice it was not really seriously undermined in Pomerania until the agricultural review of 1865 . |
| 21 | Two , our institute has its own hall and as this is now about seventy years old and was not particularly well built in the first place , you will understand that it costs us a good deal in money and effort to literally keep the roof over our heads . |
| 22 | But , unfortunately , Neil was not even safely ensconced in the house , as he should have been , so Ewen Mackay was free to resume whatever his business had been there on Wednesday night . |
| 23 | His most important theme is the way in which , uniquely among imperial powers , British concepts of masculinity — not least as fostered in public schools — had been redefined by 1914 in the perceived interest of imperial administrative efficiency ‘ to mean not sexual prowess and maturity , but sexual restraint ’ . |
| 24 | As time passed , politicians began to hedge their bets , creating uncertainty both for Jordan and the PLO , which was not yet wholly accepted in the West Bank . |
| 25 | These terms are used in KPMG 's international Special Engagements Manual but are not yet widely used in the UK . |
| 26 | In fact , regulations governing genetic engineering in the laboratory and the field are not yet well established in many countries and there are no internationally accepted guidelines . |
| 27 | Nor is it yet the whole truth ; presenting the experiments in the way I have chosen , as I said at the beginning of this chapter , has been a logical way to tell a story , even if a story not yet adequately grounded in theory . |
| 28 | As the world 's leading manufacturer of permanent pressure tennis balls , ( formerly known as ‘ pressureless ’ and of a type favoured in European markets by the general public but not yet extensively used in professional tournament tennis ) , Tretorn has justifiable cause for concern . |
| 29 | This form of ‘ re-provision ’ to achieve comprehensive services was not yet fully established in the thinking of the district management team : ‘ It was a debate that revolved around Kathleen Jones ’ ( an academic expert on mental health services ) . |
| 30 | His wife was anxiously encouraging him to strengthen the acquaintance as they were influential people , but he was not yet sufficiently advanced in his profession to feel he ought to push for invitations . |