Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is also necessary specifically to select veined material for study , hitherto not a regular practise in traditional carbonate petrography .
2 He had spoken Lear 's opening lines and I had felt a shiver run through the theatre 's great darkness , because the voice was there , and the power of it , and he was suddenly not a dirty old man at all , but a great , kind , foolish and painfully honest King .
3 This is very much not the case with Tolkien .
4 But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting .
5 Or is each to remain stubbornly not a piece of a jigsaw puzzle , but in its own watertight compartment , as shown in this diagram ?
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Businessmen and women in the North-west and Midlands are more likely to be early than their counterparts in London despite the fact that traffic is apparently not a significantly bigger problem .
9 The more general international implications of this thesis , however , may require modification since in a country like Sweden , which has a very high level of white-collar union density , government action was apparently not a necessary condition for the growth of such unions ( Adams , 1974 ) .
10 Meantime , the agreement under which Encore Computer Corp may switch to the Alpha from the Motorola Inc 88000 that it presently uses is apparently not a done deal yet .
11 Apparently not a single conceptual drawing survives to demonstrate how Nash conveyed his intentions to those in his office who made his presentation watercolours .
12 He is first recorded in Leicester in 1382 , but was apparently not a native of the town ; he was called a priest , but doubts about his ordination were later expressed .
13 While selection of resources was apparently not a problem for teachers , there were several signs that school libraries would welcome greater help in stock selection .
14 EPRDF vice-chairman and acting Prime Minister Tamirat Laynie ( previously incorrectly described as EPLF vice-chairman ) was elected Prime Minister on July 29 ( apparently not a contravention of the charter as the EPRDF was composed of various organizations ) .
15 However , if divergers are more unconventional , we might expect that some divergent girls would choose science , but this is apparently not the case .
16 This was apparently not the case in the co-transfection experiment with N-Oct 3 and N-Oct 5 expression plasmids ( Figure 4 ) .
17 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 .
18 This was apparently not the right thing to say .
19 They 're not gon na last very long not a like that is it ?
20 We are beginning to think that the proceedings are expressly designed not to produce a verdict , and especially not a guilty one .
21 Having discovered all this at life 's two-furlong pole , Piggott is not about to let some doctor tell him that he wo n't finish the race — especially not an American doctor .
22 Not Virgil , especially not the Aeneid , where he has no story worth telling , no sense of personality .
23 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 .
24 ‘ 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 .
25 And especially not the newspapers if they start nosing .
26 Especially not the car nearest us … the passenger
27 Perhaps not every chord was quite in place , but this remains orchestrally an exciting performance ; occasional poor balance between voice and stage emanates , I think , from the acoustic properties of the set .
28 Van Cleef was wonderfully evil and perhaps not a little of Eastwood 's taciturn appeal lay in the compelling menace of his adversary .
29 If patients wish to give up coffee , it is perhaps not a bad thing .
30 That 's perhaps not a luxury that you can enjoy immediately after London — although the thought of a couple of thousand masseuses standing by to greet the hordes as they cross Westminster Bridge is a novel one !
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