Example sentences of "and not at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 2 | The route in question was at Swanage and not at all difficult — getting its HVS grade for the seriousness of the climbing and not its difficulty and I 've certainly done harder in the last month . |
| 3 | She had to face the fact that Phoebe was not , not then and not at any time , going to pull Maggie out from the night-time and into the daylight of loving and needing . |
| 4 | He was twisting his fingers and not at all at ease . |
| 5 | I did n't want to get into soap opera conversation about it with him , but on the occasions that we did talk about it , both of us felt that someone , with perhaps a little more eye on reality , would have realised that he should have been in hospital and not at home unable to reach oxygen . |
| 6 | Although the seasoning of foods is a very personal matter , I believe that it is preferable to add salt during cooking to benefit the developing flavours and not at the table , where the tongue will distinguish the undissolved salt added to the food . |
| 7 | Hanoi conservatives counter by pointing out that what the economy needs most — cash — will not come immediately , and not at all if the ceasefire breaks down . |
| 8 | For it follows from this distinction that we see only the appearances of things , images of them in our minds , not the things themselves , ‘ so that , for aught we know , all we see , hear , and feel , may be only phantom and vain chimera , and not at all agree with the real things ’ . |
| 9 | Why should this penalty be mandatory , and not at the discretion of the court as in other offences ? |
| 10 | • Use skimmed or semi-skimmed milk rather than full-fat milk ; • Use cream less often on desserts and not at all in cooking ; • Have only three or four eggs a week ; • Buy more yogurt and less hard cheese ; • Eat less red meat and trim off the visible fat ; • Eat fewer fatty meat products such as sausages , meat pies , and burgers ; • Cut down on fatty snacks such as crisps ; • Use less pastry in cooking and buy fewer foods that incorporate pastry ; • Use less fat in cooking ; • If you are having a take-away meal such as fish and chips , leave some of the smaller , fattier chips usually found at the bottom of the bag . |
| 11 | Vitamin B12 is rather an odd vitamin as it is only obtained from animal sources ( such as meat , milk , and eggs ) and not at all from plant foods . |
| 12 | You feel as though you must have become very bad , because the destructive thoughts that keep coming to you are most uncharacteristic and not at all the sod of thing you usually feel . |
| 13 | The change in emphasis was noted in 1893 by another Baptist minister , Thomas Morris : ‘ It is the fashion of the present day to exaggerate the importance and power of circumstances ’ , to put ‘ society ’ above individuals , whereas Christianity , he argued , ‘ must begin at the centre , and not at the circumference . ’ |
| 14 | But they were all real people , and Not at Their Age was describing real experience . |
| 15 | Further down the hall where the colours of a middle-class afternoon could not reach , a strange box of wood with cloth-covered wires , clung to the wall like an intruder from tomorrow 's mail-order catalogue , stark , mechanical , and not at all decorative . |
| 16 | If frequency is present , it occurs usually only during the day and not at night . |
| 17 | It would be quite impossible to discuss all the plates and sub-plates making up the Earth 's crust in this book , and it would n't be very useful either , since some of them are extremely complex and not at all well understood . |
| 18 | For one thing , it was hot and sunny and not at all the weather she had associated all her life with Yuletide . |
| 19 | A group of medical students , who spent two weeks recording older people 's assessments of this century , discovered that they were fascinating and not at all preoccupied with illness . |
| 20 | Mr. Gordon had persuaded Sir George Phillips , who was a rather crabby old man , to let them use the Park for their meetings , but , all the same , Judy had the feeling that Mr. Gordon did it for Brown Owl and not at all for the Brownies . |
| 21 | Digestion occurs in approximately equal numbers at the tips of the incisors and along their lengths , 32 per cent at the tips only , 36 per cent at both the tips and along the lengths of the incisors , and 32 per cent along the lengths only and not at the tips . |
| 22 | The audit is essentially aimed at identifying and rectifying procedural flaws , and not at the individual 's performance , although realistically this may feature when considering efficiency aspects at a later stage . |
| 23 | It would be a very great help towards that end if the studies and work of theologians , doctors of divinity and other such people could be regarded as being related to specialised history , and not at all as being directed towards the regeneration and bolstering of established religions . |
| 24 | Comrade Preobrazhensky complains that I did not ‘ warn the reader with single word ’ : his article , he says is a ‘ theoretical analysis of the fundamental regularities of our economy ’ and not at all an analysis of ‘ the economic policy of the state ’ . |
| 25 | Elsewhere , tucked away and not at all Victorian , are hairdriers and trouser-presses in abundance . |
| 26 | Similarly , a bow rudder may be the appropriate breakout for a strong , fit , aggressive paddler and not at all useful for a nervous paddler with much less forearm muscle … |
| 27 | The same individual will be more competent in some things , less so in others , and not at all , in still other of the concerns of life which touch him . |
| 28 | Some women in early adulthood may feel very unmaternal and not at all sure whether they wish to burden themselves with what they see as the cares and stresses of parenthood . |
| 29 | The whole area is beautiful and not at all busy . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , it 's a good thing it happened at home and not at the racecourse . |