Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without foreign or extraneous admixture ; free from anything not properly pertaining to it ; homogeneous , unalloyed . |
| 2 | Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it . |
| 3 | It was not all going to be wine and roses ; and Leonard again felt the sharp problem of the Canadian writer at that time — having a small home market , not wishing to become artistically part of the ‘ 53rd State ’ of America , and yet having nowhere else to go . |
| 4 | Request : In the guise of pop-group ‘ The Howlers ’ ( ‘ We play loud modern rock music not entirely lacking in melodies ’ ) , we contacted the portly football fan to request his consent for a song ( and concept album ) to be titled ‘ Mad Hattersley 's Tea Party ’ . |
| 5 | While not necessarily dealing with the most important , nor the most contentious , matters , the criminal justice legislation , by virtue of its comprehensiveness and regularity , suggests more of a systematic approach to keeping in good repair the administration of justice and the working of the penal system than can be substantiated by events . |
| 6 | Well it is possible , it is possible because erm you know we 're not necessarily dealing with anything that 's horrendously difficult this year erm |
| 7 | Is it possible for some of us and perhaps representative 's of organisations or a group of us and I know I can talk to the board but I 'm not necessarily speaking for anybody else if I natter to you other than myself . |
| 8 | Mr Robinson admitted that the Office of Fair Trading which pledged to investigate the complaints was ‘ not necessarily acting as quickly as I would like it to . ’ |
| 9 | However , recent research indicates that the slim person is not necessarily eating in a way to promote maximum health . |
| 10 | It 's important to him that everyone knows he is the champion , that he is better than anyone else and not necessarily looking for easy pay days . |
| 11 | We 've taken all this into account , erm I 'm not sure all groups have tried to do that , erm but we have tried to please everyone , we do have some particular priorities and we do want to make significant improvements in service where we can and not necessarily looking for cheap publicity by increasing in lots of places as some people are supposed to of done so where one concludes sometime a significant amount of money in but will have a noticeable difference to their essential service . |
| 12 | Forty-three per cent are fathers ( not necessarily living with their children ) , and 52% currently live in households which do not include children . |
| 13 | erm supporting agencies and stuff so it 's not necessarily running against the the idea of a moral economy , just that moral economy developing its revolutionary potential |
| 14 | Incredibly the Appeal Court ruled that Mathews was not necessarily lying in saying that Murphy was the driver of the getaway van but could have been mistaken ; and this third appeal was dismissed . |
| 15 | There was an acceptance here that the WEA was not necessarily educating for political and social action : its task was to create a better-informed citizen democracy , whether or not its students went on to join pressure groups or assume civic office . |
| 16 | Lord Callaghan , when he was Prime Minister , made the point that he was not necessarily going to be merely the post box in the system . |
| 17 | First of all , the coins are not necessarily going to be a representative sample from a particular site , because it is unlikely that the whole find complex will be recovered . |
| 18 | Medicines made from natural products , he points out , are not necessarily going to be cheaper than drugs made synthetically . |
| 19 | The only problem with that is that it 's not necessarily going to be accepted . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But er can you see you 've got to make up your mind what it is , it 's not necessarily going to be easy . |
| 22 | Jerry so he said he had n't seen but he 's not necessarily going to . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's not necessarily going to be present in our relationship for the rest of our lives . |
| 24 | I 'm not necessarily talking about hooking , just looking to score and utilise the gaps in the field , which can be very attacking in Championship games . |
| 25 | As to discrimination , we are not necessarily talking about someone being fired , sacked , or NRB 'd . |
| 26 | The rise in wages was therefore not basically damaging to profitability . |
| 27 | You know , if the erm that if the family think you 're going to actually take the child off them because they 're not looking after it properly , then I mean obviously they 're not perhaps going to be as frank with you as they might otherwise . |
| 28 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 29 | And he had pigs ' eyes , was all that she could think as he said , ‘ Let me call you back , ’ into the phone and then cradled it before standing and , still holding her arm and not much caring about how it would hurt , moving to close the office door . |
| 30 | ( There was in truth not much happening in Fontanellato at this time , and although we heard news of the partisans we never knew where they were . ) |