Example sentences of "[adv] not the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much not the case with Tolkien . |
| 2 | But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting . |
| 3 | The only difference is between those countries , naturally not the most directly affected , who can pretend that voluntary repatriation will work , and those , like Hong Kong , who know it will not . |
| 4 | The only difference is between those countries , naturally not the most directly affected , who can pretend that voluntary repatriation will work , and those , like Hong Kong , who know it will not . |
| 5 | However , if divergers are more unconventional , we might expect that some divergent girls would choose science , but this is apparently not the case . |
| 6 | This was apparently not the case in the co-transfection experiment with N-Oct 3 and N-Oct 5 expression plasmids ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 7 | When Alison had pushed him he 'd started to gather the momentum to ask the same questions that were obsessing Forester — apparently not the reaction she 'd expected , judging from the way that she seemed to have slammed the lid back on the mixture before it could boil over . |
| 8 | This was apparently not the right thing to say . |
| 9 | Not Virgil , especially not the Aeneid , where he has no story worth telling , no sense of personality . |
| 10 | It is permissible for journalists to get drunk at these affairs — and indeed encouraged — but not recommended that the executives of the company doing the presentation do so , and especially not the joint managing directors . |
| 11 | ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges . |
| 12 | And especially not the newspapers if they start nosing . |
| 13 | Especially not the car nearest us … the passenger |
| 14 | Would you also agree that haphazard impulse is perhaps not the sort of attribute we 're looking for ? ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps not the lime-green hat , then ? |
| 16 | ‘ He is not — well , he is perhaps not the man you would expect . |
| 17 | For all his undoubted talent Grayson may not have been a budding Ian Rush but he turned out for one of the country 's most famous clubs , perhaps not the best but certainly one of the best known — Accrington Stanley . |
| 18 | Students receive an overwhelming mass of information during their first weeks at college or university , so this is perhaps not the best time to distribute library handouts . |
| 19 | During Teotihuaca/n times in the Veracruz wetlands there may have been occasional impounding of swamp water late in the dry season but perhaps not the sustained maintenance of water levels as happened in the chinampas . |
| 20 | There are a number of reasons why His Friend Chris is perhaps not the ideal chairman for the election . |
| 21 | It 's almost a confession — though that is perhaps not the right word — of the depth of feeling . |
| 22 | Perhaps not the literal truth ( it is unlikely that Jane Eyre , the unloved orphan , should come into a fortune and gain mastery over Rochester who was once her master or that Pip should be ‘ raised from his station ’ by a mysterious benefactor , who turns out to be Magwitch , the convict he once fed ) , but what Henry James called ‘ the truth of the imagination ’ . |
| 23 | Although perhaps not the most exotic of fish available , the Port Hoplo is ideal for the larger community tank with the added interest of its unusual breeding habit . |
| 24 | Perhaps not the most welcome greeting for the Drop Nineteens tentatively stepping out for their long overdue UK debut . |
| 25 | Some of the children in our study felt desperately disappointed that they had not been adopted , and yet they did have a home which would continue to be available to them in their adult life and had found a kind of loving , though perhaps not the all-accepting , all-loving parent of their dreams . |
| 26 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 27 | But whether or not it is a completely accurate report of what actually happened is perhaps not the point . |
| 28 | Acton was obviously articulating one strand of Victorian sexual ideology in process of creation , but not the only one and perhaps not the most important . |
| 29 | The fact that we can read all of these photographic versions of reality so easily and with such conviction is perhaps not the least astonishing feature of photography now . |
| 30 | There are a number of ways to get a game abandoned , although streaking across the pitch in only your underpants , as I did at Lake Town last season , is perhaps not the best . |