Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention in London is to create a focused display , designed to show aspects of French art not widely represented in British collections . |
| 2 | However , they are not widely distributed in gastrointestinal epithelia . |
| 3 | Increased motility does not necessarily result in increased propulsion , however . |
| 4 | As long as there is an abundant supply of water high temperatures tend to be associated with high rates of weathering , although this does not necessarily result in deep weathering profiles for , as we have already noted , where slope gradients are steep the products of weathering may be removed almost as soon as they are created . |
| 5 | If an African language was used , it was a lingua franca , one not necessarily employed in traditional oral communication . |
| 6 | But it is worthwhile to reiterate that , in a sense , every book published about recent history is of value as a source and the conventional ‘ official ’ documentation does not necessarily occupy in recent history the commanding place which its comparative isolation in a sea of illiteracy gives it in earlier epochs . |
| 7 | Social groups are thereby disbanded , and they are not necessarily reconstituted in other forms , or replaced by other groups . |
| 8 | Even when one can see a similar history of decline or recovery , this did not necessarily occur in different towns at the same time ( 71 ) . |
| 9 | The hours saved against the target set are not necessarily paid in full . |
| 10 | Ant plants are not necessarily found in nutrient-poor sites and many so-called ant-plant species sometimes have ants in them but sometimes do not , e.g. species of Aphanamixis and Chisocheton ( Meliaceae ) and many examples seem to show that the presence is due to ‘ casual ’ entrance through wounds suffered by the trees through damage by other animals or tree falls and so on . |
| 11 | Mr Justice Morrit held that the first payment of £4,000 on 30 January together with the monthly sum of £1,000 by banker 's order was not enough to discharge in full the invoice for January 's work by the accountants , which was £5,307.25 . |
| 12 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 13 | In the generation of the inventors of red-figure the Lysippides ( Andokides ) Painter and a companion of Psiax , the Antimenes Painter , head the principal workshops , specialising in neck-amphorae and hydriai , shapes not much used in early red-figure . |
| 14 | It is certainly true that at the time of the Butler Education Act the school curriculum was not much discussed in public , although certain assumptions about its content were in fact incorporated in the Act . |
| 15 | Minton 's zestful response not only captures in vivid terms the quality of these artists ' work , but it also reveals his own anxiety about what contemporary art should do and be . |
| 16 | What was more , he considered it his duty , not only to pray in public himself , but to induce his friends to join him , often at inconvenient times and in conspicuous places . |
| 17 | The appointment of the famous doctor and educational theorist Nikolai Pirogov to the headship of the Odessa educational district in 1856 demonstrated that under Alexander II enlightened academics could not only serve in educational institutions , but also run them . |
| 18 | They do not only work in small groups . |
| 19 | The ultimate insult had been thrown at him : he , the Maître Auguste Didier , had been obliged , nay commanded , not only to appear in Dickensian dress but to don the unmistakable apparel of Alexis Soyer : tight white drill trousers , matching tunic , short jacket , ridiculous cummerbund , slotted into which was his own kitchen knife ( no doubt for a speedy self-martyrdom after the imminent disaster of this meal ) and , worse , the horror on his head . |
| 20 | Seven had establishments under 200 , eight under 300 , and twelve over 300 , so that although there were no very small authorities in this group , training officers were not only found in large authorities . |
| 21 | Some parts of the country showed more significant growth than others : on the east coast , the number of sailings not only rose in absolute terms between the 1460s and the early sixteenth century , but the proportion of those by English ships approximately doubled , although there were some exports which were largely carried in foreign vessels . |
| 22 | The show is arranged by chronology and style , not by country : the artists selected not only live in Latin America but have strong cultural ties with it . |
| 23 | And problems do not only occur in individual relationships — think of the difficulties between the Protestants and the Catholics in Northern Ireland or between black and white in South Africa . |
| 24 | Regan makes no secret of the fact that he is not merely indulging in theoretical philosophy . |
| 25 | These punctuation marks are not sufficiently used in technical writing and can be of assistance in preparing reports . |
| 26 | Yet second-person pronouns are not generally accepted in academic writing , a characteristic of the idiom linked to the idea of criticism having less a given , particular reader than of an unspecified general readership . |
| 27 | Initially the latter two metals only occur in alloys as they were not generally isolated in metallic form until the medieval period . |
| 28 | The conclusion must be that the major issues of military commitment outside Libyan frontiers were not generally discussed in public assemblies of any kind , unless it suited the Revolutionary Command Council . |
| 29 | Departments , moreover , are not easily moved in new directions by the outsiders that presidents set over them . |
| 30 | Constructing the federal budget is a protracted and complex matter , not easily described in brief . |