Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) A partner who retires from a firm does not thereby cease to be liable for partnership debts or obligations incurred before his retirement . |
| 2 | This coupling might not displace your favoured recording of either concerto , but it is worth attention for Accardo 's emphatic proof that you do not necessarily have to be English to interpret English music . |
| 3 | Medicines made from natural products , he points out , are not necessarily going to be cheaper than drugs made synthetically . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not necessarily going to be present in our relationship for the rest of our lives . |
| 5 | And diagnosis is very , very important that , if you have a medical , clinical state of depression try and pull yourself out of it , by your , your own efforts and doing alternative things is not necessarily going to be effective . |
| 6 | But er can you see you 've got to make up your mind what it is , it 's not necessarily going to be easy . |
| 7 | The fact that work performed-by one group is not necessarily found to be repeatable by another is nothing new . |
| 8 | Indeed they do not only appear to be immoral , but dishonest as well . |
| 9 | Their activities were thus not only believed to be tangible proof of the truths of Christianity , but were also an essential link between men and a somewhat remote but terrifying god . |
| 10 | Note that for synchronous rotation the orbital and axial periods not only have to be equal but also both prograde or both retrograde . |
| 11 | They not only have to be able to get there but they have to be able to get their words and pictures out . |
| 12 | Her clothes not only have to be smart but very carefully chosen because anything fussily frilled , checked or highly patterned tends to look too busy on the small screen . |
| 13 | In making time to provide reflection the head not only has to be clear about the relative priority of helping out , taking on chores and providing workaday leadership but also has to have confidence in the extent to which his or her colleagues expect leadership . |
| 14 | Children are not only encouraged to be proud of who they are , but to discuss any differences . ’ |
| 15 | Processed food , therefore , not only tends to be deficient in essential nutrients but also contains an increasing array of possibly toxic artificial chemicals . |
| 16 | To be completely consistent perhaps Gandhi would not only have to be opposed to the killing of animals for food , but also to the killing of disease-carrying rats , mosquitoes , and venomous snakes , and those forms of plant life that are essential to a vegetarian diet . |
| 17 | Alix was not sufficiently numerate to be able to calculate the odds against such an apparently odd relationship , though she could not help but feel that its component , accidental parts were startlingly combined . |
| 18 | The Catholics , having come so far in undermining the old Orange State , were not easily going to be satisfied , and the urban working-class Protestants were not about to relinquish fifty years of social and political superiority without a fight . |
| 19 | The press are not normally allowed to be present during chambers applications . |
| 20 | The intention of the Merger Regulation was to introduce a ‘ one-stop , merger control , described by Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan as a ‘ system whereby , in the case of smaller mergers , they would be subject only to national regulation … while in the case of the really large mergers which have implications for the whole Community , the European Commission would have the power to intervene , and companies would not normally need to be concerned about the national regulatory authorities ’ . |
| 21 | The use of tranquillizers of either the major ( e.g. phenothiazines ) or minor groups ( e.g. benzodiazepines ) does not usually appear to be helpful . |
| 22 | Treatment sessions do not usually need to be longer than 1 hour . |
| 23 | However , such metrics do not always appear to be natural . |
| 24 | Mini-bus services have been experimented with in a number of areas , although the savings over larger buses are not always felt to be great and , frequently , mini-buses will be too small to cope with maximum demand over part of the route ( Dobbs 1979 ) . |
| 25 | A LETTER from Greta Garbo shows she did not always want to be alone . |
| 26 | The traditional division , whereby the advice worker advises clients and the manager does everything else , was not always thought to be efficient or fair . |
| 27 | I must be absolutely honest though and say that it 's not always going to be easy to try to live for Jesus at school . |
| 28 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 29 | Working-class Protestants had some material advantages over their Catholic competitors and enjoyed preferential treatment in housing and local government employment but these advantages were sometimes marginal and were not often felt to be considerable advantages because the Protestants did not sit down to statistical comparisons of their standards of living with the opportunities of Catholics . |
| 30 | Although the MECs are often influential bodies and have a valuable information role , they are not typically felt to be good decision-making bodies enabling doctors to make prompt and positive contributions to management . |