Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] all " in BNC.

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1 The District Chief , who had not altogether followed all this , looked blank .
2 In these early days of computer-based teaching units when there is very little effective material available , it is likely that any school with a computer will try to collect such material but then it will not necessarily reach all the relevant subject teachers ; the chance of getting to H2 and browsing through the program will then depend on communications within the school .
3 ICS will contact all known investors with the firm , which acted as an adviser on investments , life assurance and unit trusts , and any others not hearing from it should contact the ICS , although declaration of default does not necessarily mean all investors will be eligible for compensation .
4 Normal cleaning practices were found to not necessarily remove all contaminants , indicating a potential risk from blood-borne diseases .
5 Also , the insurers will not necessarily cover all your customers and those that they do cover may only be covered up to a certain amount .
6 These include the development of new areas of activity through inter-governmental co-operation outside the jurisdiction of the European Court , the concept that certain aspects of Community activity will not necessarily involve all the Member States , and the related problems of the extension of Community competence and recognition of the principle of ‘ subsidiarity ’ .
7 This means that an individual quadrat may not necessarily contain all of the constants , although they are likely to occur nearby .
8 The Archive will not necessarily acquire all of the identified data files — a specialist archive may comprise a small number of key datasets together with a catalogue of data held elsewhere ( meta-data ) .
9 By buying one company in the group the purchaser will not necessarily acquire all the assets necessary to conduct that company 's business .
10 This is defined by British Standard BS 5283 : 1976 as : the destruction of micro-organisms but not usually bacterial spores ; it does not necessarily kill all micro-organisms but reduces them to a level which is neither harmful to health nor the quality of perishable foods .
11 But nevertheless , you may have different ways of getting from A to B but those different routes may in actual fact give a different set of benefits or perform different functions or not necessarily meet all the needs as you 're setting out to meet .
12 ‘ Relevant worship ’ does not necessarily require all present to participate vocally all the time .
13 It is perhaps unfair but definitely wise to say that even direct counterparts on Macintosh and PC do not necessarily transfer all their formats from one system to another .
14 Subsequent study , while not necessarily endorsing all of the ‘ incremental thesis , ’ has been directed towards understanding which factors an official will take into account .
15 The ‘ middle class ’ activists did not necessarily support all the actual policies of the national party , but what they did support was the form of policymaking , and the right of the leadership to make policy .
16 Most important , of course , was the recognition that , although in the long-term measures to increase income and reduce costs would enable Colleges to become more self-sufficient , in the short-term the finance available would not necessarily allow all desirable changes to be introduced simultaneously , and some prioritising would be required .
17 Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays .
18 Not enough to finance all the agitation on the Coptic side , let alone the Moslems as well . ’
19 This would be a similarly reductionist theory , compatible with the demands of empiricism and the verification principle , but it would not perhaps have all the metaphysical and epistemological attractions of the traditional theory .
20 The range of professions utilized by the administrative agencies of the modern state not only encompasses all the traditional professional and scientific disciplines .
21 This versatile multi-function card not only combines all the benefits of a cheque guarantee card and Cashline card but also allows you to pay for goods and services quickly and easily without writing a cheque at retailers displaying the Switch sign .
22 Because not only had all this lot to be moved , but halfway through the removal he suddenly remembered there was something else needed moving , shot to the stairs with a white face , opened the door in under the stairs and out came all the bits and pieces from there .
23 In the morning he would go to the embassy , fall on his knees before her , beg her to return , to forgive him — anything — because he loved her , and love , if it were true , not only conquered all , but accepted all — ‘ Love is not love , Which alters when it alteration finds , ’ Shakespeare had said in his greatest sonnet , and he had discovered that for himself — but too late , too late .
24 The organisers of Dublin 's year are keen not only to promote all things Irish but also make a European stand and put on exhibitions of interest to the whole community .
25 And I would maintain that for all his limited command of English and his limited general knowledge , he not only knew all there was to know about how to run a house , he did in his prime come to acquire that ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ , as the Hayes Society puts it .
26 Certainly , when I watched her in the St Trinian 's films , I knew I was watching someone who not only knew all of the people I knew , but could do a wicked job of ‘ taking them off ’ !
27 When his characters make love — or perform Mr. Lawrence 's equivalent for love-making — and they do nothing else — they not only lose all the amenities , refinements and graces which many centuries have built up in order to make love-making tolerable ; they seem to reascend the metamorphoses of evolution , passing backward beyond ape and fish to some hideous coitus of protoplasm .
28 So keep it for the end and keep it for when you 've not only done all the questions but had a quick check through to see have
29 For the moment the tsar not only held all the cards at home but also was continuing to improve his position abroad .
30 The sponsored Superswim at Eston baths not only broke all records last year , but won world acclaim when its organisers were honoured by Rotary International .
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