Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the turn of the century , the majority of women will probably be entitled to the basic pension in their own right , though perhaps not at the full amount . |
| 2 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 3 | You lie low for a while , and you disperse a handful of coins , singly , perhaps not to the best advantage , but still it 's all clear profit . |
| 4 | If they are a hit , to use a word perhaps not of the big band era , it is probable they will be booked monthly . |
| 5 | WALTER SISULU will have cause in the coming days to reflect , perhaps not for the first time , that stone walls do not a prison make . |
| 6 | Perhaps not in the political lifetime of most hon. Members but at some future stage , we may see a Community that stretches from one end of Europe to the other , for which I for one will wish to work . |
| 7 | A similar trend in zooplankton abundance is apparent in the western North Pacific — although perhaps not in the central North Pacific . |
| 8 | Although perhaps not in the strictest sense of the word ‘ beautiful ’ , the American girl had a very pleasing appearance , and despite her height and strong build , an attractive feminine figure . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps not in the ordinary way . ’ |
| 10 | As was said earlier , since the Piper Alpha incident there has been a succession of serious incidents in the North sea , although obviously not on the same scale as Piper Alpha . |
| 11 | They did try to kill the piglet , but as they were quite frightened and obviously not from the right background , they were not very practical about it . |
| 12 | Democratic theory as an ideal construct may recognise the existence of elites in real polities which are to be explained ; a democratic theory which accepts the existence of elites , describes democracy as a set of institutions and builds them into its descriptions as a central restraining factor , is arguably not in the democratic school and might not even be properly called theory . |
| 13 | A more utterly feeble excuse for sacking anyone I 've never heard — it 's just not like the Old Man , " he said , doing a volte-face . |
| 14 | Some are completely on another plateau , you know , they 're just not in the real world ; they wander round and do n't make eye-contact unless they 're talking to you ; they just look at the ceiling all the time when they 're lecturing . |
| 15 | One does not get a sense of a strong need for support from parents to children to be reciprocated — certainly not in the short term , and possibly not in the long term either . |
| 16 | Both not in the same league as the people they replaced . |
| 17 | From the outside people may say she has married into such and such a descent group but this does not mean that she is also not at the same time the wife of a particular man . |
| 18 | ‘ It was absolutely astonishing , ’ said Ludens , also not for the first time . |
| 19 | The preliminary version is clearly not for the naive user . |
| 20 | In the 1970s , Henderson argued , Britain was clearly not in the front rank , even as a European power , with its declining economy and lack of investment in managerial and engineering resources . |
| 21 | The granting of patents on plants rewards a technology that could lead to the genetic pollution of nature , an outcome that is clearly not in the public interest . |
| 22 | From this perspective Levinas proposes the possibility that the much lamented ‘ subject ’ be brought back not as the ontological subject which seeks to reduce everything to itself but as an ethical subject defined in relation to the other : ‘ Ethics redefines subjectivity as this heteronomous responsibility in contrast to autonomous freedom ’ . |
| 23 | ( Both pronunciations are found , though typically not in the same speaker . ) |
| 24 | takes it but surely not from the right position . |
| 25 | Thirdly , and linked with the above point , it is sometimes not in the best interest of the victim to report a crime to the police . |
| 26 | Whereas in Britain ( and Sweden ) , the state controlled the Church , feudalism had ended well before it generally disappeared elsewhere in Europe , and manhood suffrage had been extended to large sections of the population — unlike most continental countries where it was attained only at a later date , sometimes not until the early part of the present century . |
| 27 | Whereas the West Mainland never goes really up at the end of the sentence or at least not to the same extent . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , if in our experiments the effects of indomethacin were mediated by an increased production of leukotrienes , one would have expected that indomethacin reversed the beneficial effect of the linoleic diet but not that of the eicosapentaenoic acid diet , or at least not to the same extent , since the lipoxygenase products derived from eicosapentaenoic acid are weaker proinflammatory mediators than products derived from arachidonic acid metabolism . |
| 29 | ‘ Not many of them have , at least not on the Moslem side . |
| 30 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |