Example sentences of "not [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some believe that we should be looking at all ages to fulfilling activity which is not wholly employment based , but make more constructive use of leisure . |
| 2 | Female danger/power also rested on the fact that women occupied structurally marginal positions ( i.e. neither fully inside nor outside the system , not wholly nature nor culture ) and on the fact that society placed them in interstructural roles ( as wives and daughters ) with respect to alliance-making and linking disparate power groups . |
| 3 | I 'm not little Ms. Middler I 'm not little |
| 4 | It was not properly inflation proofed , but anyone who paid national insurance contributions , even at the reduced rate , during that period will have a right to some graduated pension , however small , or to an equivalent amount from an employer 's scheme . |
| 5 | Not un-naturally Tony Blair and the Labour Party have sought to make political capital out of what are pretty damning figures representing a turnaround of frightening speed and proportion . |
| 6 | In the same vein of concentrated analysis ( and again , with rather an insufficiency of music examples ) Oliver Neighbour considers the authorship of certain anonymous keyboard pieces , most particularly a transcription of Byrd 's ‘ O quam gloriosum est regnum ’ Its procedures demonstrate the activity of a master hand ( not inconceivably Byrd 's own ) even if only to satisfy himself that the exercise was n't worth the candle . |
| 7 | Now she was a young widow , dignified but vulnerable , busy but not tastelessly careerist ; she believed that she always put her family first . |
| 8 | ‘ You seem to notice everything , Janet , ’ she said , in a not unkindly way . |
| 9 | as if he did not know all this for himself , and was not endlessly wrestling , valiantly and incredulously , with the problem of his own chronic poverty ! |
| 10 | Thinking regarded as internal manipulation of events and ideas does not necessarily depend on language , but if it is not entirely ego orientated , that is not concentrated on the relationship of the person to the scheme of things , then it usually invokes iconic representation . |
| 11 | Even though , therefore , in 691 Aethelred confirmed a grant of land by Swaefheard to Abbess Aebbe in 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) , and confirmed also the successive donations to Hoo ( CS 89 : S 233 ) , it may be that he was not entirely master of the situation . |
| 12 | Zimbabwe 's rulers are not entirely masters in their own house . |
| 13 | Not entirely fertilizers but that seems to be er the main cause of it . |
| 14 | According to an early draft , the new Programme would give the CPSU the task of carrying out ‘ historically progressive aims ’ ( not necessarily communism ) , and socialism itself was defined as a society of ‘ economic effectiveness , social justice , political democracy and human solidarity ’ ( but not necessarily of public ownership ) . |
| 15 | It can be applied just as readily to cases in which the associates are non-verbal responses or ( as may happen with classical conditioning ) not necessarily responses at all but representations of other stimuli . |
| 16 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 17 | As we have seen , the Directives compel us to apply group accounting to undertakings which are not necessarily companies . |
| 18 | All villas are supplied with bed linen , bath towels and all necessary basic kitchen equipment ( not necessarily ovens , kettles or teapots ! ) |
| 19 | In the Court of Appeal Lord Denning had attempted to qualify Bolam by saying that an error of clinical judgment was not necessarily negligence . |
| 20 | His first objective was to restore the authority of Soviet socialism by economic reform and political democratisation ; the second , much more ambitious objective was to reposition Soviet communism in relation to the European tradition from which it had originally emerged , seeking to build up a coalition of working class , religious , ecological , youth and other forces which could unite around the slogan of peace and social justice , if not necessarily Marxism-Leninism . |
| 21 | The UK by contrast requires only that figures are prepared and audited to internationally acceptable standards but not necessarily UK Gaap . |
| 22 | Modular catering ( though not necessarily Cuisine 2000 ) is expanding on to the Liverpool Street-Norwich run ( using former West Coast vehicles ) , the East Coast main line ( with Mk4 stock ) , and the Western Region , when the ex-ECML cars can be cascaded in 1991 . |
| 23 | Those of us who display Buddha in the drawing-room are not necessarily Buddhists . |
| 24 | Not that anyone in the company seriously questioned whether the new outlet would be successful ; they had seen American tourists ( although not necessarily Californians ) on holiday in England ‘ going crazy ’ over the designs and assumed people would flock to them in the States . |
| 25 | Not necessarily adjectives . |
| 26 | But although trade passed through Southampton , it was not necessarily merchants of the town who were handling it . |
| 27 | The price is what the seller hopes to get , and not necessarily w hat he expects . |
| 28 | Well not necessarily Chris . |
| 29 | These men are not necessarily anti-women . |
| 30 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |