Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , assembly is not widely used at present and as more companies develop RISCs it is likely that this architecture will dominate the CISC design in the future . |
| 2 | After all , we live our lives for the ability to indulge in pleasurable activities — and believe me , they are not all found at work ! |
| 3 | Audrey Baker , tutor for the National Marriage Guidance Council ( address on page 153 ) , says that although long-established marriages do not necessarily founder at retirement , many couples make themselves miserable by not communicating . |
| 4 | Igfets have strange characteristics , which mean that they are not much use at frequencies of below a few kilohertz . |
| 5 | This was an activity not much favoured at Verdun , as it invariably attracted a tornado of enemy fire . |
| 6 | fresh leaf stems , seeds , of use in respiratory conditions such as colds , bronchitis and coughs ; a stimulator of appetite and a digestive , not much used at present ; dried root anti-flatulent |
| 7 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |
| 8 | But Miss Dallam would not only feel at ease with it but would look well in it too . |
| 9 | They were then left with a hole to fill but they came up with a rider who not only won at Kirkistown but also showed a lot of talent . |
| 10 | I 've not only waitressed at weddings . |
| 11 | It is a system which not merely connived at nepotism , it depended upon it . |
| 12 | Do not merely stare at facts which you hope to remember , but see if you can devise a memory-jogger by arranging them so that the initials form another word which , perhaps , you associate with some experience in your life . |
| 13 | Like some other promising sportsmen who believe their intellectual powers were not sufficiently energized at school , he went to college , abandoned his sports career and became a solicitor 's accountant . |
| 14 | Such gimmicks have helped to make Virgin 's upper class service tempting to business passengers , but Virgin knows the real business is done by men like this , and they 're not just looking at service but also cost . |
| 15 | The human race is producing so much information — it is n't factual information , we 're not just looking at price movements of stocks and shares , but in the scientific community it 's very much to do with ideas and how that person can get across his ideas , his concepts to people to half a world away . |
| 16 | It is n't factual information , we 're not just looking at price movements of stocks and shares , but in the scientific community it 's very much to do with ideas and how that person can get across his ideas , his concepts , to people half a world away . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ Players are not just training at club sessions , they continue to build up on their own . |
| 18 | He obviously has heeded Ruskin 's advice not just to look at things but to ‘ watch ’ them . |
| 19 | The county council 's social services chairman Bob Pitt said : ‘ The service is not just aimed at children at risk from abuse or neglect . ’ |
| 20 | Since it is not normally taught at school , the study of Linguistics starts from scratch with no assumption about previous knowledge of the subject . |
| 21 | Underline that the purpose is not quickly to arrive at understanding , but to embark upon a lifetime 's exploration . |
| 22 | But we 've not wilfully put at risk services or jobs by risking capping by going in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | Presently the strains of Brother James 's air , ‘ The Lord 's my shepherd ’ , drifted out , soon followed by a psalm not often heard at funeral services , number CXXVII ‘ As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are the children of youth . |
| 24 | Luckier fates awaited the Louis XIV Boulle marquetry console , sold to a telephone bidder under-estimate for $675,000 ( £375,000 ) ( est. $800–1.2 million ) , a small Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle bureau plat around 1700–1710 , sold to Bernard Steinitz for $850,000 ( £472,200 ) ( est. $1–1.5 million ) , a simple Louis XV tulipwood marquetry table à écrire by Bernard van Risamburgh , sold to Partridge for $460,000 ( £255,500 ) ( est. $400–600,000 ) and the skeleton of a charming Louis XVI giltwood lit à la polonaise around 1780 ( est. $100–150,000 ) , a form not often seen at auction , which went to a phone bidder for $440,000 ( £244,400 ) . |
| 25 | Marise said dismissively , not really looking at Belinda as she spoke . |
| 26 | The Head of Department replied that they were used mainly for the Sixth Form , for example , the History of Art' … my predecessor bought them for departmental use , but my belief is that kids should be actively involved in creative work , not passively looking at film — and we have difficulty with blackout , too'. ( verified note of meeting ) |
| 27 | This criticism is not mainly directed at universities and colleges , which would surely wish to appoint experience professionals who met their academic and teaching standards . |
| 28 | Moreover , even if particular impulses are not mainly directed at pleasure , the typical ones do seem to be directed at the occurrence of certain states of ourselves , so that even if not hedonistic they are egoistic . |
| 29 | Disenchanted Conservatives did not simply stay at home . |
| 30 | The Back to the Future ride has us not simply gawping at Michael J Fox traversing time in a souped-up De Lorean but ( ostensibly ) taking his place . |