Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while AT&T may be lunging into the Nineties , the corporate giant has not altogether abandoned the fashions of the previous decade . |
| 2 | He said Durham and Darlington councils had not properly consulted the bus companies about speed restrictions and had failed to consider all the alternatives . |
| 3 | He has not properly investigated the target 's dining facilities . |
| 4 | Were he to deflect the challenge by dissolving parliament , it would confirm he had not properly learnt the lessons of April 's disturbances . |
| 5 | ( Incidentally if the number 30 031 has no special significance for you , I think I can safely claim that you have not properly settled the conjecture following 1.3.10 . ) |
| 6 | It is perhaps not widely appreciated the effect deforestation can have on a country like Ethiopia . |
| 7 | To those who believed that he had not rigorously demonstrated the earth 's motion , it would look as if he had condemned himself . |
| 8 | Now the publication of examination results has become routine , and has not apparently delivered the goods ( we look at this in Chapter 4 ) . |
| 9 | A LIFESPAN RDBI view of a DC , its assessors , and their assessments , even when the DC is in the approved state , will therefore reveal a list of assessors who have not all assessed the DC . |
| 10 | This view has been more manifest in the United States than in this country , although we have not entirely escaped the same phenomenon . |
| 11 | She had not entirely lost the gipsy look of her earlier manifestations , but now , more ambitiously attired , appeared more like some sort of stage character , a dressed-up Bohemian , an artist 's model , or an adventuress in disguise . |
| 12 | It is a play which , again , has not entirely abandoned the traditions of the music hall . |
| 13 | Charles had not entirely abandoned the efforts of his father and grandfather to protect the pauperes : at the same time , he had done what neither his father nor grandfather had attempted , in imposing public exactions in cash on the economy at large . |
| 14 | It should also be noted that many of these issues have not greatly exercised the academic community in this country . |
| 15 | Such a limitation has not obviously affected the evolutionary ‘ success ’ of this type of body pattern , as witnessed by the vast number of species of insects and crustacea alive and flourishing today — but it certainly affects the extent of their behavioural repertoire . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , these efforts have not obviously reversed the dominant thrust of reactive policing . |
| 17 | Gillray had not suddenly discovered the munificence of the English monarch nor the seriousness of his heir . |
| 18 | In other words , there was something inevitable in this decline — although it must be noted that other industrialized nations , such as the United States , at a similar stage in their economic development have not necessarily followed the same pattern of development . |
| 19 | It is clear then , that the rise of pluralism , both interpretative and methodological , has not necessarily displaced the central ideological themes of the past . |
| 20 | Mr Parker Bowles , 52 , said he had not personally read the latest newspaper reports but added : ‘ I have been told about it . ’ |
| 21 | For some reason they had not much liked the look of this pub , called the Fir Tree , and though he had slowed a bit as they came to it , they had not stopped . |
| 22 | He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ . |
| 23 | If the citizen is not so informed the police may be liable for false imprisonment unless , of course , the suspect makes this impossible by his conduct . |
| 24 | If a proper return is not so delivered the company is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine and a daily default fine so long as the contravention continues . |
| 25 | This corporate approach as well as the " steady state " requirements of the NHSME in the first year of contracting not only affected the district 's attitudes to its own providers but also what they hoped to achieve from the changes . |
| 26 | ( Success is defined by the extent to which the negotiator not only achieved the immediate objective ( see page 119 ) , but also by the extent to which the agreement stuck when implemented . ) |
| 27 | Where the degree course and the HNC/HND course are designed to form a continuous integrated programme and where students by the end of the second year or the equivalent stage have not only achieved the SCOTVEC award but also satisfied the objectives and reached the standard required by CNAA for that stage of a degree course , students may take one further academic year of full-time study for a Degree and two further academic years of full-time study for an Honours Degree ( or the part-time equivalents ) . |
| 28 | They had not only forfeited the right to a political vote . |
| 29 | The movement owed its existence in part to an amalgam of anxieties specific to the London crisis of the 1860s , in particular to what Gareth Stedman Jones has called ‘ The Deformation of the Gift ’ , that is , the emergence of a gulf between the classes which had not only destroyed the ‘ gift relationship ’ involving elements of ‘ prestige , subordination and obligation ’ , but was also fundamentally responsible for the ‘ demoralization ’ of the poor . |
| 30 | The modern practice of flailing the remaining hedges with crude machinery has not only destroyed the possibility of such views , but has also led to a considerable reduction of bird and animal life The landscape is much poorer both visually and in content than it was thirty years ago . |