Example sentences of "not [adv] [det] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not necessarily all living at the same level on the shore . |
| 2 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 3 | Either staff or other residents may initiate this segregation , and it is usually based on behaviour that is seen as disruptive , so those who are segregated in this way are not necessarily all suffering from dementia . |
| 4 | Scientific Correspondence is a relatively informal section of Nature in which matters of general scientific interest , not necessarily those arising from papers appearing in Nature , are published . |
| 5 | There are two or possibly three sections that require close inspection and ropework and the gorge should not be taken lightly but do not less this detract from a river that has everything . |
| 6 | We 're not so much looking to Wembley . |
| 7 | Blown-up extracts from contemporary Paris newspapers , on panels larger than the works of art on display , suggest that the district 's sudden fame was not so much to do with art or philosophy , but the novel phenomenon of la jeunesse . |
| 8 | But perhaps this not so much to do with ‘ stars ’ as the fact that related people often share the same preferences when planning their families . |
| 9 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |
| 10 | Their role is not so much to perform on their own as to lead and embellish the chants . |
| 11 | ‘ What you are saying is that I am not so much searching for Harry , rather , Harry is winding me in , like a fish on a line — ’ |
| 12 | It was , in the first place , a world not so much consisting of factories , employers and proletarians as one transformed by the enormous progress of its industrial sector . |
| 13 | At the recent JANE 'S ADDICTION gig at The Marquee , people were not so much holding onto their ears as trying to stop their eyeballs standing out on stalks , so plenteous were the glittering celebs out to cheer the visiting Americans on . |
| 14 | Not so much to get over the final break-up of her relationship with Paul — that had been inevitable , she realised that now . |
| 15 | We are therefore not so much talking about a single meaning as a true one versus all the others which are false . |
| 16 | Diatryma seems , after all , to have been a meat-eater , its head reinforced not so much to cut through meat as to cope with the sudden shocks when its bite hit bone . |
| 17 | Thus progression means not so much going from before to after , as from the more immediate to the more remote circumstances which impinge on the central character 's consciousness . |
| 18 | And there was perhaps not so much to laugh at in that ; for by North 's trial , two and a half years after the breaking of the scandal , the overwhelming majority of Americans had come to feel much the same way . |
| 19 | This is clearly revealed in the brick wall of indignation which flattens any suggestion that the crime problem defined by the state is not the only crime problem , or that criminals are not only those processed by the state . |
| 20 | The defeats and backslidings are not only those forced on him by others , or by circumstances , but those too , less pitiably , which come from within him . |
| 21 | The growth of user-subcultures takes on enormous importance , and not only those associated with deviant youth groups : the British audience for American Country music , the Adult-Orientated Rock audience , successive rock 'n' roll revivals , swing band enthusiasts , and many others , would repay attention , for often they use mass-media products , perhaps radically shifting the original meanings . |
| 22 | Given this to be so , under the influence of the new analyses ( of poverty and of the youth labour-market ) , it was appreciated that the critical features of the youth question were not only those relating to church attendance , unorganized leisure , absence of esprit de corps and , at the extreme end of the spectrum of anxiety , juvenile delinquency . |
| 23 | If it is , it will be for reasons to do with overall levels of sentencing for many sorts of crimes , not merely those related to drugs . |
| 24 | That section was repealed and replaced by section 61(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , which applied to all life prisoners and not merely those convicted of murder . |
| 25 | But it can affect the way the rig interacts and I 'm pointing it out as it relates to all rack systems , not just those based upon a JMP-1 . |
| 26 | Thanks to new smoothing products , it 's not just those born with straight hair that can follow the trend for sleek , shiny styles . |
| 27 | Additionally , the Society gave an assurance that all trees and plants described in their publication were available in their nurseries and were not just those displayed in botanic gardens , or owned by curious gentlemen . |
| 28 | Does he agree that the future economic prosperity of the area depends primarily on the defeat of terrorism and that terrorism will not be defeated until all political parties in the Province renounce violence — not just those represented in the House today but Sinn Fein ? |
| 29 | German managers ‘ talk products ’ and manufacturing more than their British colleagues do , and this applies to German managers generally , not just those associated with design and product development . |
| 30 | The customer must not only know the protections he is giving up ( see ( 2 ) below ) but must also be aware of the effect of giving them up ; ( 2 ) The firm has given him a clear written warning of the private customer protections he will lose ; all the main protections must be listed ( and include , for example , derivatives risk warnings and suitability of advice ) and not just those specified by SFA itself in its guidance . |