Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the latter seems to be chosen overwhelmingly testifies not to the existence of coercion , but to careful selection procedures for placing persons in corporate positions coupled with successful methods of persuading them that their interests and the corporation 's interests happily coincide — or at least , that that is the most sensible , pragmatic way of looking at it . |
| 2 | We do n't have everything by any means ; and as I have already said , I bitterly regret not having our Salome . |
| 3 | The objective henceforward became not to be a loser by using the benefits of a bourgeois education to tight the cause of all those losers in the world who , like his father , had been smashed by the bourgeois system itself . |
| 4 | ‘ Corps rather thinks not . |
| 5 | The Canaletto presumably has not altered , and men still come to look at it just as they repeat Shakespeare 's words . |
| 6 | She must have been watching because she smiled , or rather tried not to smile too obviously — she tried to conceal her pleasure in witnessing the beginning of her triumph by pressing her lips together , but the smile came out anyway . |
| 7 | We are beginning to think that the proceedings are expressly designed not to produce a verdict , and especially not a guilty one . |
| 8 | And for once this year , Littlewoods ' results will be most keenly awaited not just by its rivals but by the financial community at large . |
| 9 | I remember feeling a good deal embarrassed , which he imperturbably pretended not to notice , thereby perhaps further teaching me a lesson in Eliot-etiquette , though he was the last person deliberately to make anyone feel uneasy . |
| 10 | He refused outright the advice of his ‘ betters ’ , either by alienating them in a flash of rage or by stubbornly preferring not to go along with them ; rather like Melville 's eponymous character Bartleby . |
| 11 | The national park proposed for the Cairngorms , for example , covers an area of land big enough to include not only the skiing at Cairngorm , but also that at the Lecht and Glenshee as well . |
| 12 | These differences are better explained not by that kind of analogy , but by a recognition of the complex history of the text within the history of an ancient tribe — a history that is sometimes romanticized , sometimes idealized , and in which past and present are sometimes confusingly mixed . |
| 13 | The oldest man on the Derry side , he is also among the most highly regarded not just in Ulster but throughout the country as a whole . |
| 14 | In ridding the Tory Party of its old aristocratic embrace , the Prime Minister has entirely failed — or perhaps has not even tried — to banish oligarchic mores that went with its former upper-crust outlook . |
| 15 | erm the normal disciplines that the County Council applied on income headings is that if income varies for reasons of er conditions for example and this is in a way akin to that , then the committee normally has to find these erm er the additional resources to cover tha that income erm I have had long discussions with John on this and th the point that he was putting there was er demonstrating that income had followed the amount of work perhaps has not fallen and the below the line item is a recognition in the part of that argument i in a sense for fifty-fifty between below the line reaching seven thousand erm and we 've identified savings and other heads for example the staff advertising example where reduction in turnover , there 's no effective service saving there , so these such things can go towards meeting this income conditions . |
| 16 | I think for a lot of people , yes , it does , and though the pile of bricks obviously comes under Art with a capital A , crafts perhaps has not suffered quite as much , but I think there is the feeling amongst people that if they get a pot which is , shall we say non-function and wo n't pour , then is it art or craft ? |
| 17 | heads of each participating school and will undoubtedly bring out the best in the youngsters , stimulating the competitive instincts in a way that perhaps has n't been available to schoolchildren in the past . |
| 18 | Erm it perhaps has n't been as major as as people might er have thought it should be . |
| 19 | So I think it it is an issue that perhaps has n't been addressed in our discussions erm hitherto and and and seems to me from from past evidence to sugg to be an issue that does need to be to be looked at . |
| 20 | The point I think that has to be understood about EuroDisney , which perhaps has n't been properly perceived yet by the public is that it is very much a destination for the British public . |
| 21 | Erm first of all , I think alternative sites can be found within the district which meet the requirements of P P G three , erm set out in paragraph thirty three , and I think the other advantage which perhaps has n't been touched on is that the new settlement in Selby District would balance the otherwise very heavy bias of recent and future programmed development which is er to the north east of York . |
| 22 | This appeal raises a point of law that hitherto has not been ruled upon in this court . |
| 23 | Pyramid , which currently offers some MIPS-based Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG boxes lower down its line , apparently has n't decided whether it will actually offer its new R4000 architecture as one of its own products yet . |
| 24 | Freedoms there are , but in encouraging a liberal approach to the national work plan which all teachers follow , freedom to ignore the work plan entirely has not been ceded by the state . |
| 25 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 26 | The the the trouble is it 's not not not that wrong with the fence but the ivy 's so thick , it 's been there so long has n't it ? |
| 27 | The grass has got very long has n't it ? |
| 28 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 29 | And it was as she hesitated , thinking of Liam , touched as so often , and usually at the wrong moment , by the silence and sadness of him which so troubled her , wondering if a sugar stick would lighten it , that she felt herself suddenly surrounded not by the usual ebb and flow of the market day crowd but by something much more purposeful . |
| 30 | But I have enough honour not to tell that lie . |