Example sentences of "not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do you think he knows we 're talking about him ? ’ asked Lydia , not nervously , but truly more out of curiosity . |
| 2 | ‘ Stop blubbing , ’ Nick said , not over-sympathetically . |
| 3 | But M3 was not successfully targeted in the early Thatcher years . |
| 4 | Jasmine was like many horses : sold as a three-year-old because her owner had found that he could not successfully train her . |
| 5 | But if politicians can not successfully steer the agenda , then that reflects a professional failure for which the price may be high . |
| 6 | In his 1955–56 Annual Report , at the end of a year when insufficient Terminal courses had been provided to use up all available Ministry grant , he commented that ‘ we may find it increasingly difficult to resist a reduction in the number of tutor-organisers we now employ , let alone claim a further appointment , if additional Terminal courses are not successfully organised in both established and new centres ’ . |
| 7 | If they are not successfully concluded in the next few months a major objective of the single market will not have been achieved : far from becoming more internationally efficient and competitive , EC industry will fall further behind in a world of growing protectionism and trade blocs . |
| 8 | The warmer the climate the more they are in evidence , because the living reptiles are ‘ cold blooded ’ ( without their own internal heat regulator ) and they can not successfully live in very cold climates . |
| 9 | One profession can not successfully isolate and combat infection . |
| 10 | Many do not successfully complete this journey as anemones are often a limited resource on the reef and most of the fry are eaten by predators before they can reach protection . |
| 11 | That Sri Lankans were involved in much litigation and that the judicial system was based on alien principles can not be denied , but contemporaries did not successfully explain the link between these two facts . |
| 12 | The disparities between rich and poor were becoming greater and they were not successfully justified in the official media . |
| 13 | Ability alone was clearly not the only factor influencing the promotion of naval officers , and it is not surprising that some of those promoted did not successfully fill their new posts . |
| 14 | Despite joint ventures in Europe with Philips and Olivetti , and in Spain , AT&T did not successfully achieve the same status as the existing ‘ foreign legion ’ telecoms equipment suppliers ; Siemens of Germany and Ericsson continued their traditional success as equipment suppliers in many countries , and ITT largely held on to its foreign markets both under its US ownership and when it came under majority French ( Alcatel ) control in 1986 . |
| 15 | Thus , the exploration of a present-day divergent state of language resembles the exploration of a historically attested state to the extent that we can not successfully describe either of these in terms of an external ( and usually superordinate ) variety . |
| 16 | If consent were not successfully produced and reproduced , this could ultimately affect the condition and prospects of the economic base , not least by making a great deal of difference to the likely success of the revolutionary struggle . |
| 17 | It follows that in our judgment C.N.L. can not successfully bring themselves within the ratio of Peach v. Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [ 1986 ] Q.B . |
| 18 | She tried , not successfully , to recall something of the pupil-teacher aspect of their relations . |
| 19 | The attempt is found occasionally in the work of their pupils , and at this time becomes quite frequent , but in vase-painting at least it is not successfully achieved until quite late in the century . |
| 20 | A more serious problem with Deffenbacher 's approach in terms of the ability to generalize the results to other settings is that his distinction between studies which did and did not successfully manipulate violence level or personal threat can be argued to be post hoc . |
| 21 | However , these classifications can not successfully be extrapolated to gastrointestinal lymphomas as MALT lymphocytes and their derived lymphomas seem to have a physiology that differs from their nodal counterparts . |
| 22 | Stewart does not successfully refute the statement that the principal reason for the difference between the 1988 and 1990 forecasts was the reduction in HIV transmission among homosexual/bisexual men in the mid-1980s , the extent of which only became apparent between the reports . |
| 23 | And Alex Stewart seemingly can not successfully combine wicket-keeping and batting . |
| 24 | We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain , only to see them reimposed at a European level , with a European superstate exercising a new dominance from Brussels . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd only ever given him pills before , and I 'm not medically trained , but it 's surprising how quickly you get used to it . |
| 26 | It is now suggested that ‘ he does n't know anything about politics ’ — in effect , that he is not medically qualified for his spin-doctoring consultancy . |
| 27 | New patients should be discussed in detail , particularly if the therapist is not medically qualified and there is a possibility of the patient suffering from psychiatric disorder . |
| 28 | Medical teachers in Britain may be divided into three main groups : a tiny minority who are trained in educational theory and methods ( who often are not medically qualified themselves ) , staff holding official ‘ teaching ’ appointments but without formal teacher training , and NHS doctors who teach ( in effect , most NHS doctors ) . |
| 29 | Once this has been accomplished the speech may be rounded off fairly quickly , but not over-hastily . |
| 30 | A default judgment must , however , not be recognised if the defendant was not duly served with the document which instituted the proceedings or with an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence . |