Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain facts need to be considered : ( i ) Repairs — The court can not expressly order a party to pay for or contribute towards the cost of repairs to the house the subject of the court order because its powers are limited to ordering periodical payments and lump sums . |
| 2 | But , even if not properly speaking a science , it is still worthy of systematic pursuit . |
| 3 | Firstly , where are the political , legal , and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states ? |
| 4 | Mr Shevardnadze told members of the European Parliament that while the German people had the right to self-determination there would have to be ‘ political , legal and material guarantees that German unity would not eventually create a threat to the national security of other states and to peace in Europe ’ . |
| 5 | Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above . |
| 6 | No , not quite right not right Have a check up for her . |
| 7 | Now would you not rather have a Poem , however imperfect , than a plate of cucumber sandwiches , however even , however delicately salted , however exquisitely fine-cut ? |
| 8 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 9 | Formerly , this sub-sub-delegation of supervisory powers to SRO 's did not effectively establish a system of self-regulation , since the principle of equivalence operated to ensure that the SIB retained significant control . |
| 10 | This leads to the following definition of economic earnings per share : subject to the restriction which implies that the present value of new external funds must sum to zero over the life of the firm , otherwise the firm would not effectively have a budget constraint . |
| 11 | If a parliament can not effectively question a government , power will slip from its grasp , and government will become autocratic , benign or otherwise . |
| 12 | The starting point for this discussion — of the changing division of labour by sectors and by strata , and of the social pattern of recruitment of individuals to the positions within these divisions — was the condition of party politics as the 1960s ended , and in particular the position of the Labour Party , which had forfeited the active support on important sections of its ‘ traditional ’ partisans yet had not apparently suffered a collapse of electoral support ( as indicated by opinion polls before the 1970 election ) . |
| 13 | The beauty of these words can not entirely hide a sense of suggested differentness , of an essential something so far held back but pushing now to get out . |
| 14 | By contrast , they and the Social Democrats , who both slumped in last December 's general election , do not together have a majority there now . |
| 15 | The question " Were you speaking Patois or English just then ? " will not necessarily make a lot of sense to a member of the London Caribbean community , any more than the questions " Why did you say that in Patois ? " or " How would the effect of that be different if you said it in ordinary English ? " . |
| 16 | But that does not necessarily make a boom . |
| 17 | This is a classic example of how competition can erode profits : rising barriers to entry and high growth do not necessarily make an industry profitable , even for the leaders . |
| 18 | It will be argued that the BBC will not necessarily show a game every Sunday . |
| 19 | Managers should not necessarily blame an employee for failures , but should determine whether the process is to blame , and involve the staff in improving the process . |
| 20 | Changes that do not revert , e.g. , emulsion separation , do not necessarily eliminate a product . |
| 21 | In the absence of such research , Troyna 's confident rejection of multiculturalist strategies can not be sustained , although of course the antiracist argument that teaching about ‘ other cultures ’ does not necessarily give an understanding of the racism of one 's own remains intact . |
| 22 | When all is said and done , there may be no way to avoid the momentary grip of fear descending on you when unusual things start to happen on your computer , but I hope to have shown that this should not necessarily start a panic . |
| 23 | This does not necessarily mean a lack of interest . |
| 24 | This does not necessarily mean a mathematics degree , as many people imagine . |
| 25 | It was suggested in the workshop that this does not or should not necessarily mean a cutback in the budget . |
| 26 | Company spokesman John Dodds said the investment would be staggered over a period of time and would not necessarily mean a glut of vacancies in Darlington . |
| 27 | This does not necessarily mean an expansion of output or rise in output per head will take place , since a large proportion of the existing available workforce is either unemployed or underemployed in many LDCs . |
| 28 | Those corps came into existence in the early 20th century , when it was discovered that attendance at university did not necessarily mean an ability to lead troops . |
| 29 | In my case , being of Scottish descent does not necessarily mean an appreciation of Scottish humour ; I feel the Irish have a finer touch , giving life and subtlety to a jest . |
| 30 | The work with the Hypertext book did not necessarily identify a set of link types that were either generic to producing a book or to the topic of hypertext . |