Example sentences of "[adj] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we do some marine not a lot of marine erm For some strange reason , our design of engine does not lend itself too well to marine applications . |
| 2 | Trusting Dougal not to do a bunk with ten thousand quid was insane . |
| 3 | In Canada the British not only deluded themselves that they had defeated the axiom ; they also imagined it was the federal ingredient that had enabled them to do the trick . |
| 4 | Why can we British not have the same celebratory attitude ? |
| 5 | This was because Oxford was a good place to be born during World War II : The Germans had an agreement that they would not bomb Oxford and Cambridge , in return for the British not bombing Heidelberg and Göttingen . |
| 6 | On March 21st , a despatch from Falkenhayn admitted that Rupprecht had been right about the British not being able to take the offensive , and at the same time it ordered the withdrawal of three of his divisions for the general reserve . |
| 7 | This not an invariable pattern for monographs , but readers can usually expect that the central figure of a book will receive prominence at the expense of any other artists . |
| 8 | This not only makes an understanding of the nature of Victorian pubs difficult , but also means that those which do survive merit special care and attention . |
| 9 | I mean by this not merely that it can be represented mathematically , but that , such is its concern with the quantitative aspects of reality that it consigns all the qualitative content in our conception of the world to the realm of conscious experience . |
| 10 | But does this not leave babies with an awful lot to do for themselves ? |
| 11 | I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated . |
| 12 | Why is this not done by the manufacturer ? |
| 13 | Only the music created slight differences and this not markedly because the composers used the best of commonly recognised traditional musical idioms . |
| 14 | This not only allows him to indulge in more of those awkward movements , which make his first solo such a wonderful parody of classical dance , but shows him as the pathetic clown , always the butt of everyone 's laughter . |
| 15 | This not only gives guidebook compilers a hard time but also stops new lines getting repeated while the weather 's good . |
| 16 | It seems that Carnedd Uchaf has crept into the list , but is this not subsidiary summit of Foel Gras rather than a 3000'er in its own right ? |
| 17 | The Kenyans have gone to enormous trouble to make this not a murder . ’ |
| 18 | But does this not mean that God has to be affected by what happens in the world and that the challenges and frustrations which the world 's freedom continually presents to Him force ever new responses from Him , so that He is continually changing ? |
| 19 | This not only affects how the male public react to policewomen in the province , it also influences how male colleagues treat policewomen in the work environment and the sorts of duties they are assigned in practice ; and the dearth of senior female officers makes it easy for male colleagues to impose such limits on the role of policewomen . |
| 20 | This not only involves a mutual understanding of the common-sense notions in everyday life about what counts as an excuse , it requires that constables put themselves in the position of the offender to test whether they would have done the same . |
| 21 | They attributed this not to anything physical but to meditation on higher things . |
| 22 | When the union publishes a special Notice in its magazine warning members about the activities of a promoter , record company or contact agency , this not only informs members , it also puts off other unscrupulous operators . |
| 23 | This not weakness . |
| 24 | My brother and I had already discussed the possibility of this not being the real Lone Ranger but an impersonator dressed up , and when our man appeared we knew . |
| 25 | This not only makes it unlikely that employers will allow many such sessions per day ( and that is a disadvantage scientifically ) but it also means that the tests , particularly by virtue of necessarily being repetitive , are boring for the subject . |
| 26 | This not only took the edge off the bitter taste , but also gave the drink a warm , attractive colour that looked ( even if nothing else about it was similar ) something like the superior imported French wines . |
| 27 | She fired back : ‘ Is this not bureaucracy gone raving mad ? ’ |
| 28 | But the drama of this not very pleasant person is wholly overshadowed by the larger drama of an entire nation . |
| 29 | This not only gave good grounds for peace and stability in Europe , but also opened up the prospect for bigger cuts in military spending . |
| 30 | Is this not the worst and most pernicious kind of sexism ? |