Example sentences of "[indef pn] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this the ‘ selling ’ of the idea to someone not yet fully mature is likely to be a workable relationship . |
| 2 | To recognize the value present in a situation ( he urges ) is not merely to have an attitude which someone else who conceives the ‘ factual character ’ of the situation in exactly the same way might lack , but to conceive it in a particular kind of way which could not be duplicated in someone not thus drawn to it . |
| 3 | ‘ Why not ? ’ he said carelessly , and made for the stairs with the care of someone not absolutely steady on his feet . |
| 4 | ‘ Someone not so far from here might just decide to take all those opportunities you wax so lyrical about away from you ! ’ |
| 5 | Talking about your worries to someone not directly involved will help you to express your feelings and come to terms with your previous experiences . |
| 6 | He was on the look-out for someone to write the incidental music , someone with new ideas , preferably someone not too well known . |
| 7 | And it is no bad idea to choose someone not too distant from oneself , especially if you hope to create a detective capable of standing up to a whole series of books . |
| 8 | A younger man , I think — younger than Summerchild himself ; there is a firmness behind Summerchild 's deference which suggests that he is addressing someone not too senior — certainly one who has not yet served in the world of Royal Commissions and advisory units . |
| 9 | It would not be an easy sinecure and the job specification called for someone not only with wide experience in the profession and a clear understanding of the issues at stake , but also a cool head and tough hide in the face of the increasing political and public interest in auditing . |
| 10 | It is really impossible for someone not technically qualified , or who was not at the time encouraged to understand more than a very limited aspect of its functions , to analyse the workings of the apparatus . |
| 11 | It will make sure that everyone not only tells our customers what we do for them but also why we do it . |
| 12 | The Government 's aim is to decide all cases within a matter of months so that all those affected do not have to wait an inordinate length of time to ascertain their legal status in the U K. It 's obvious to everyone not too blind to see that such changes are vital to the mounting pressures on the existing system |
| 13 | Somebody not well ? |
| 14 | ‘ Now I want you to call a courier and sort out a couple of juicy documents to somebody not too far away , but it does n't matter who . |
| 15 | it 's strictly speaking streaming is when Paul would be in the top group for everything not necessarily , I mean settings better really it 's important |
| 16 | By interposing a large enough series of Ks , we can derive the human eye from something not slightly different from itself but very different from itself . |
| 17 | There were ripples in the air of something bigger , something not altogether pleasant . |
| 18 | In contrast to the earlier stages of the debate , the concern was to make the common curriculum more than the ‘ basics ’ ( something not altogether borne out in their subsequent pronouncements ) . |
| 19 | I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence , and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from , but inherent in , my own immaterial nature . |
| 20 | Unless Oxendown had certain special facilities , something not easily transferred … |
| 21 | Deutsch and Budwig ( 1983 ) , for example , found that children often used their own names in two-word utterances when they talked about objects currently in their possession , but a pronoun like me or my when they were claiming something not yet in their hands . |
| 22 | As things turned out , time was something not just then at our disposal . |
| 23 | There was something not right about Daniel , his wife thought . |
| 24 | There 's obviously something not right , Doctor . |
| 25 | I greatly fear that there is something not right about the man . ’ |
| 26 | Something not right . |
| 27 | There 's something not right about the way he goes on with her . |
| 28 | There 's obviously something not right , Doctor . |
| 29 | Practically all these early recordings suffer from distortion and overloading of the voice , something not readily apparent on the original 78s and something Decca should surely have been able to correct even , if as I believe , they have n't kept the original masters ( shame on them ! ) |
| 30 | Virtually all the accounts we have suggest that the public schools , in spite of Arnold 's efforts , continued to exist in something not far removed from a Hobbesian state of nature — or rather , just far enough removed to allow for the development of tribal ritual . |