Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they had been told to counter this objection with the fact that this was a single instance or two of older machines and new machines could be serviced almost immediately , this did not altogether convince a potential customer and it was felt that many sales had been lost . |
| 2 | Certain facts need to be considered : ( i ) Repairs — The court can not expressly order a party to pay for or contribute towards the cost of repairs to the house the subject of the court order because its powers are limited to ordering periodical payments and lump sums . |
| 3 | But , even if not properly speaking a science , it is still worthy of systematic pursuit . |
| 4 | While it was possible to identify a group of 27 libraries with staff members whose title included ‘ training ’ , ‘ development ’ or ‘ personnel ’ , they did not uniformly devote a major part of their time to training , and there were instances of authorities who named individuals apparently spending more of their time on training than ‘ named ’ training officers . |
| 5 | Firstly , where are the political , legal , and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states ? |
| 6 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 7 | Why then does it not eventually become an exact facsimile of that mother ? |
| 8 | Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above . |
| 9 | Thus , in his discussion of Modernism relative to Lukács and Brecht : ‘ to highlight the fact that Modernism shares with Romanticism a ‘ subjectified occasionalism , is not thereby to pass a negative aesthetic judgement on the works of art grouped together under the former label . |
| 10 | No , not quite right not right Have a check up for her . |
| 11 | Now would you not rather have a Poem , however imperfect , than a plate of cucumber sandwiches , however even , however delicately salted , however exquisitely fine-cut ? |
| 12 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 13 | Formerly , this sub-sub-delegation of supervisory powers to SRO 's did not effectively establish a system of self-regulation , since the principle of equivalence operated to ensure that the SIB retained significant control . |
| 14 | This leads to the following definition of economic earnings per share : subject to the restriction which implies that the present value of new external funds must sum to zero over the life of the firm , otherwise the firm would not effectively have a budget constraint . |
| 15 | If a parliament can not effectively question a government , power will slip from its grasp , and government will become autocratic , benign or otherwise . |
| 16 | The starting point for this discussion — of the changing division of labour by sectors and by strata , and of the social pattern of recruitment of individuals to the positions within these divisions — was the condition of party politics as the 1960s ended , and in particular the position of the Labour Party , which had forfeited the active support on important sections of its ‘ traditional ’ partisans yet had not apparently suffered a collapse of electoral support ( as indicated by opinion polls before the 1970 election ) . |
| 17 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 18 | To use criminal statistics wisely necessitates some prior work in getting to know the difference between indictable and non-indictable offences and also some legal history so that one does not suddenly discover an enormous decrease in a crime such as stealing cars when the new offence of ‘ take and drive away ’ is introduced . |
| 19 | By contrast , they and the Social Democrats , who both slumped in last December 's general election , do not together have a majority there now . |
| 20 | As Professor Goode has pointed out , the fact that the charge has crystallised will affect the relationship between the chargee and the company but it does not necessarily affect a third party since if the company is left free to deal with the assets in the normal course of its business then the chargee should be estopped from denying the company 's authority to do so . |
| 21 | For days now there had been no news from France , evidence that the Emperor had forbidden all traffic over the border , but that silence did not necessarily suggest an immediate invasion , but rather the concealment of exactly where the French forces concentrated . |
| 22 | An ability to help bring a child into the world and care for it does not necessarily create a good parent . |
| 23 | But that does not necessarily make a boom . |
| 24 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 25 | This is a classic example of how competition can erode profits : rising barriers to entry and high growth do not necessarily make an industry profitable , even for the leaders . |
| 26 | It will be argued that the BBC will not necessarily show a game every Sunday . |
| 27 | Managers should not necessarily blame an employee for failures , but should determine whether the process is to blame , and involve the staff in improving the process . |
| 28 | Changes that do not revert , e.g. , emulsion separation , do not necessarily eliminate a product . |
| 29 | In the absence of such research , Troyna 's confident rejection of multiculturalist strategies can not be sustained , although of course the antiracist argument that teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ does not necessarily give an understanding of the racism of one 's own remains intact . |
| 30 | When all is said and done , there may be no way to avoid the momentary grip of fear descending on you when unusual things start to happen on your computer , but I hope to have shown that this should not necessarily start a panic . |