Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Russell also found much to admire in his Manchester Scuttlers , seeing in their violent gang fights a ‘ sense of comradeship ’ which he could not altogether disapprove of : ‘ The ‘ Scuttler ’ ’ was not wholly bad ; he would rather be a blackguard than a dullard . |
| 2 | Liza Tremayne , going about her duties at Southern Command and ever susceptible to atmosphere , was possibly more conscious of this than many of the girls with whom she worked , girls who she well knew did not altogether approve of her present lifestyle . |
| 3 | After the Leeds Congress Maginn was plainly a disappointed man and probably did not altogether approve of the BDDA 's leadership . |
| 4 | If two monads coincided in all their attributes , then they would be indistinguishable and one could not properly speak of " two " monads . |
| 5 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 6 | It follows that , strictly , we can not justifiably speak of the " same propositions " , or the " same concepts " . |
| 7 | We are not all made of the stuff of John Weller , nor should it be necessary for us to be so . |
| 8 | While the Americans had not entirely despaired of better relations with Nasser , they looked to the US 6th Fleet to remind possible trouble-makers of the power which the United States could immediately bring to bear against them in a crisis . |
| 9 | Calculators , on the other hand , are still not entirely approved of by some parents and teachers , even though our experience would suggest that an ability to use a calculator is a far more relevant skill for everyday life than almost any of the pencil-and-paper arithmetic taught in schools . |
| 10 | Most of Yonder was new , housing estates , schools , shops , small businesses and offices , and not entirely approved of by the original residents of the village . |
| 11 | Such lexical chains need not necessarily consist of words which mean the same , however . |
| 12 | This does not just mean ‘ frequent ’ : exceptions are perceived as ‘ odd ’ , but are not necessarily disapproved of , sanctioned , etc . |
| 13 | We do not necessarily think of pigments in the context of metalwork , but there are traditions of painted metal statues . |
| 14 | Human life was not necessarily robbed of its meaning by being incorporated into the natural system . |
| 15 | Children start off as self-centred little beings and they do not naturally think of the other person . |
| 16 | It is not enough to think of a murder and who committed it and why what is not immediately obvious , and then to take some setting that seems interesting and simply introduce chunks of description from time to time . |
| 17 | Legal proceedings were opened against various mayors including the reformist mayor of Dresden , Wolfgang Berghofer , although Berghofer himself was not personally suspected of election manipulation ( in May he went to work for the office planning and construction company Häussler in Stuttgart ) . |
| 18 | Not much remains of them , not much of their songs and dances and stories , ‘ the things , ’ as the Dorman says , ‘ which make human life worth living . ’ |
| 19 | Not much came of it . |
| 20 | We should look behind the artificially magnified scope of the devil to discover he is not so deserved of our admiration as once we supposed . |
| 21 | Suddenly a new perspective began to open before the young Prince ; he could not only dream of a Bonapartist cause , he could himself become the representative of that cause . |
| 22 | In the second case , however , compulsory acquisition at less than market price involves an actual loss since the owner is not only deprived of his property but is also compensated at a price which might be less than he paid for it and would almost certainly be insufficient to purchase a similar parcel of land in the open market . |
| 23 | ‘ She not only knew of her big hits , but also about lots of other numbers on her various albums . |
| 24 | These tourists ordered not only busts of themselves but replicas and versions of the artist 's fourteen or so separate ideal works including : ‘ Eve Tempted ’ ( 1839–42 ) ; the ‘ Greek Slave ’ ( 1841–1843 ) ; ‘ Proserpine ’ ( 1843 ; 1844–49 ) ; ‘ America ’ ( 1848–9 ) and ‘ California ’ ( 1850 ) . |
| 25 | We now have a system whereby the park authority not only learns of the farmers ' proposals in advance but also invariably ‘ approves ’ the proposals . |
| 26 | Undoubtedly , this reorganization of the Northumbrian Church pleased Theodore , who secured the establishment o additional bishoprics north of the Humber , and Ecgfrith , who was not only rid of a bishop whom he did not want but able also to secure the appointment of men whom he personally favoured , men generally prepared to deal sensitively with the legacy of the Scottish mission in a post-Whitby era . |
| 27 | An Irish House of Lords , in my view , should not only consist of Anglo-Irish peers , but of clan chiefs and both Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops . |
| 28 | The environment does not only consist of what we can see and touch , it encompasses sound too . |
| 29 | In our recent study of papers in the mid-1980s we broadened the focus and examined not only rape but also other forms of sexual assault and not only reporting of trials but also other stages , including the search and post-conviction . |
| 30 | It is now widely accepted in political science that democratic activity and representation not only consists of the electoral choice between parties and their programmes but in the contribution to policy making made by interest groups . |