Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real restriction of his freedom arose not so much from the restraints of his colleagues as front the fact that his Plymouth speech inevitably created an election atmosphere which he found difficult to control . |
| 2 | In return , Louis-Napoleon agreed not to return to France for some years . |
| 3 | The agents or lecturers became not only dramatic figures in the theatre of the public meeting but combatants , for example on the occasions when Thompson and some colleagues debated the West Indian Peter Borthwick and associates at Glasgow in 1833 and in 1836 the American defender of slavery , Breckinridge . |
| 4 | Why that is so extraordinary is that governors of institutions of that kind tend not to want to give interviews to the press ; they keep their views very much to themselves . |
| 5 | To start with the computer made not a blind bit of difference . |
| 6 | The credit for securing this freedom belongs not so much to the legislators ( many of whom now profess themselves appalled at developments ) but to a few courageous publishers who risked jail by inviting juries to take a stand against censorship , and to the ineptitude and corruption of police enforcement . |
| 7 | That is , later transformations tend not to interfere with or undo the effects of earlier ones in the generation of a surface from a deep structure . |
| 8 | Being uncomplicated , the riders tend not to take much notice of it and in their minds , they have already finished . |
| 9 | The reasons for failure in these projects tend not to lie in the technical side , though the technology is complex , nor in the economic side , though the cost of these systems is very high . |
| 10 | However these products tend not to be as rich in calcium as dairy products and red fish . |
| 11 | With respect to strategy Japanese enterprise groups tend not to adopt the conglomerate model which is more common to large firms in the United States or Britain as the locus of their strategic initiative , preferring instead the keiretsu form . |
| 12 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |
| 13 | Is it really relevant that most of that military money produced not a single weapon ? |
| 14 | Groups became not merely bands , but ‘ ensembles ’ , deploying electronics , synthesisers and , in one case , something called ‘ crossover music theatre ’ . |
| 15 | It was a mercy we did , for X-rays revealed not only back trouble , but a massive abdominal aorta aneurysm . |
| 16 | In Los Angeles , discussions centred not merely on drug usage as a topical exploitation subject for movies but also on the widespread and varied substances which were readily available , being increasingly used and largely blamed for the incredible recent upsurge in violence within the protest movement . |
| 17 | In this type of use , to is intercepted at the final moment of the movement it denotes , so that the adjective or main verb evokes not only how the person designated as the support of the infinitive was predisposed towards the realization of the latter 's event , but also his feelings at the time of its occurrence . |
| 18 | The Chancellor abolished tax relief on ( new ) Life Assurance Policies in the 1984 budget , but has made no move to abolish , or phase-out MITR — indeed speculation in some parts of the Conservative party before the 1987 Election centred not on whether there would be a reduction , but whether there would be an increase in the maximum level of relief permitted ( the previous increase was in 1983 , also a general election year ) . |
| 19 | Indeed such is the pressure for adequate car parking that there are a surprising number of cases where brewing companies have applied for permission to demolish not only outbuildings but adjacent cottages , some of them listed … ’ |
| 20 | In any case , big birds tend not to bother cracking nuts , but swallow them to be pulverised with grit in their muscular gizzards . |
| 21 | Prisoners tend not to re-offend , family relationships are maintained , and above all , through education prisoners are provided with the opportunity of a different role in society . |
| 22 | As a consequence of these practical deficiencies , the principle of strict traffic segregation has been replaced in most Western societies by a repertoire of policies developed not just to improve traffic safety , but to do so without detracting from the quality of life in residential districts . |
| 23 | Parties to commercial contracts tend not to terminate the contract even in cases of breach of condition , but will normally be happy to allow the other party to make good any breach . |
| 24 | On the other hand we can decide that this is not properly an intervention at all , but the paraphrased rendering of an insight about language whose formulation belongs not to de Man but to Proust . |
| 25 | The duty of broadcasting and journalism in the world struggle became not to reflect the truth but to choose what should be true , in the interest of public policy . |
| 26 | The team processes cases more quickly and closes them earlier ; of those that remain open , relatively few are reassessed , but cases tend not to be kept open for ‘ monitoring only ’ . |
| 27 | Many of the projects arose not just because they seemed to be suitable topics for academic research , but at the direct instigation of teachers or sometimes students . |
| 28 | Ossie has not signed a contract but we have shaken hands on a three-year deal . ’ |
| 29 | However , the renaming of revered academically institutions has not been without problems . |
| 30 | The prevalence of this dimension of psychiatric disturbance in institutions has not been reported . |