Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the Committee 's proposals on buggery , this would have meant that a man who procured a woman 's submission to anal intercourse by threats other than of violence would not necessarily have been guilty of any offence . |
| 2 | In the longer term , of course , this would not necessarily have been true , simply because the loyalty , and the ability , of Gloucester 's successors were an unknown quantity , but it is significant that the terms of the Cumberland grants were less generous than those north of the border . |
| 3 | In the longer term , of course , this would not necessarily have been true , simply because the loyalty , and the ability , of Gloucester 's successors were an unknown quantity , but it is significant that the terms of the Cumberland grants were less generous than those north of the border . |
| 4 | However , they would not necessarily have been conscious of this if they were in an ordinary environment with normal background sounds . |
| 5 | In both of these scenarios the non-verbal signals of neither party would not necessarily have been conscious . |
| 6 | The idea points to a kind of dynamic joy of understanding between creator and creation ; that it is not constantly felt is due to sin . |
| 7 | If the plaintiff had not paid he would not only have been subject to legal proceedings for recovery of the tax but would have been liable to forfeiture of his business until it had been paid . |
| 8 | ‘ If they had investigated thoroughly at the time they might not only have been able to identify other elements of the fraud but also help secure some of the lost assets . ’ |
| 9 | The ability to listen whilst another person talks does not merely entail being aware of the words spoken to us . |
| 10 | That her novels are not better known is due largely to her extreme modesty about her literary abilities ; but there is no doubt that her concise , deceptively light prose style , reliance on dialogue to carry the plot , and delight in satirical exaggeration influenced both Firbank and Evelyn Waugh [ q.v. ] , and that she has thus left her mark on the development of the twentieth-century novel . |
| 11 | ‘ Actuarial work does not just mean being involved in a mass of figures ’ |
| 12 | Jackson ( 1973 : 145 ) shows that these interests were hidden by the demands of style , as in the semi-detached properties which employed a basic frame but added a spurious individuality on the façade in order to make the house more attractive to prospective buyers , or the modernist-style buildings , which proclaimed their scientific nature to the degree that elements of the internal construction which would not normally have been visible were externalized onto the façade to display a commitment to the appropriation of new technologies . |
| 13 | Those not gainfully employed are dependent upon two main sources for their income : pensions and savings . |
| 14 | The underlying pattern is modelled by an independence graph which possesses the remarkable Markov property that any two variables that are not directly connected are independent conditional on only their separating set . |
| 15 | The latter 's relations with his Welsh neighbours can not always have been good , for the Annales Cambriæ say that in 1012 he led an expedition against St David 's . |
| 16 | She may well have lived in her parents ' house before her enclosure : when she describes the circumstances of her visions in The Revelations of Divine Love , she says that there were a large number of people round her bed and that priests were able to come and go as they pleased , which would not always have been possible in an anchorage . |
| 17 | Although Eliot was privately a most generous man — to an extent that many people , especially the young , may not always have been aware — he exercised a public prudence that sometimes faintly amused his associates . |
| 18 | Although the chemistry of modern Earth-bound life is all carbon-chemistry , this may not be true all over the universe , and it may not always have been true on this Earth . |
| 19 | Denmark had in Cnut 's day only recently been converted to Christianity , and these authors are unlikely to have possessed much in the way of early documentary material , although like English historians they fairly clearly knew oral traditions which need not always have been groundless . |
| 20 | Although schools and teachers I visited may not always have been able to produce copies of the official syllabus , everyone had copies of previous years ' questions and were assiduously preparing children to sit for the current examination . |
| 21 | He could not possibly have been confident that McKenna would refuse : the former Chancellor 's three days of hesitation is proof against this . |
| 22 | The tribunal will only allow a trader 's appeal against such a direction if it considers that Customs could not reasonably have been satisfied : for example , if Customs have ignored a relevant matter or if they have taken an irrelevant matter into account . |
| 23 | If at the time of making the contract , the buyer was unaware , and could not reasonably have been aware , of the gravity of the defect , then the court would probably hold that the condition as to merchantable quality was implied . |
| 24 | A visit to the local supermarket may well be within their experience , but they may not really have been involved with the shopping itself . |
| 25 | This involved frequent absences from home , so that , even if he had wished it , he would not really have been able to run the estates himself . |
| 26 | It horrified Brian to think of Celia hypnotised by some guru who would try to drag things out of her which might not even have been correct . |
| 27 | Rumours about impending changes will occur anyway , and staff not fully informed are likely to fear the worst . |
| 28 | The change in status would have allowed Switzerland to participate fully in broader Framework programmes , although it would not yet have been eligible for direct financial support . |
| 29 | This sudden attack , coming from they knew not where had been shattering , as no doubt it had been meant to be . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) An occurrence to which this section applies is one which — ( a ) affected either parent of the child in his or her ability to have a normal , healthy child ; or ( b ) affected the mother during her pregnancy , or affected her or the child in the course of its birth , so that the child is born with disabilities which would not otherwise have been present . |