Example sentences of "this [verb] [not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently , this refers not to the Lower East Side survey , but to Labov 's preparatory department store survey ( Labov , 1966 ; 1972b ) . |
| 2 | This has not in any way curtailed enthusiasm for the principle that good design is based upon utility among its acolytes in London 's Design Centre or the Boilerhouse project of the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , where beauty through ergonomics may still be an avowed aim . |
| 3 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 4 | In many ways the stimulus for this came not from the miners but from the wool and worsted textile workers who fought against further wage reductions in 1925 . |
| 5 | Now this happens not to be the style of other people , but it 's mine . |
| 6 | This tends not to be so , since people do n't feel the need to keep reintroducing the point that no one listened to the first time , or the next , or the next … . |
| 7 | This tends not to be the case . |
| 8 | From observing the conduct of others on their beat , this appears not to be the majority view . |
| 9 | Initially this appears not to be so , since while the Freudian model posits a repression within the subject , the materialist model posits a repression outside the subject in the form of its other . |
| 10 | Instances can be cited where this appears not to be the case : where prominence is due to other than literary considerations . |
| 11 | The reason for this lay not in any assessment of the rival claims , but in his unwavering determination to bring Normandy under his rule . |
| 12 | It soon became apparent that he had not only failed to read the book but had not even succeeded in struggling to the end of the blurb , though this did not of course stop him talking at length . |
| 13 | This did not at first include the canon of the Mass , but the momentum of change was such in the early post-conciliar period — moreover , the absurdity of retaining an isolated island of Latin was so obvious — that this quickly followed . |
| 14 | This did not in fact happen , but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap . |
| 15 | This did not in practice apply to landless labourers or peasants with very little land , a large and growing element in the rural population ; but if it had been put into effect it would none the less have been the most sweeping social legislation seen anywhere in old regime Europe . |
| 16 | This did not in itself imply any belief in racial inequality , superiority or inferiority , though when married to the study of the evolution of man on the basis of the pre-historic fossil record , it did . |
| 17 | However , this proved not to be the case . |
| 18 | This proved not to be the case , partly because the relationship between the two countries underwent a transformation in the period 1966–70 . |
| 19 | However , this proved not to be the case , since even from such a large corpus , it was possible to extract only 560 utterance tokens — an average of less than 11.7 per speaker . |
| 20 | I thought there was a strong chance that some of the lads might join in , but this proved not to be the case . |
| 21 | The roots of this belong not in the New Testament but in Latin legalism . |
| 22 | As a result when I awoke there was no positive proof that all this had not in fact happened , and that it did not belong to a mental lapse from which I had recovered . |
| 23 | There is not space to discuss here even briefly the many controversial issues raised in the literature on corporatism , but in so far as territorial politics are concerned , it must be observed that even if there was or is a trend towards greater centralisation of political representation , this does not at all mean that there might not also be a functional deconcentration towards the periphery in specific cases . |
| 24 | This does not at all mean that the study of aphasia and theories about the language processing system have nothing to say to each other . |
| 25 | All this does not at all mean that monopoly , within our framework of discussion has become less potentially dangerous or less important . |
| 26 | This does not of course , apply to Yagi antennas , which are more or less unidirectional . |
| 27 | Therefore , the existence of atrocity stories on subjects such as this does not of itself reveal that this work is emotionally undemanding ; simply that this is one impression that the story is intended to convey . |
| 28 | They can establish , at least , that the author is an authority on the subject — though this does not of course necessarily guarantee the quality of the end product . |
| 29 | This does not of course mean that the subjects concerned were psychotic , in a clinical sense . |
| 30 | Only one stitch pattern at a time can be downloaded from DesignaKnit to the knitting machine and any patterns currently in the memory of the knitting machine will be erased ( this does not of course apply to the built in Stitch World patterns which can not be erased ) . |