Example sentences of "[be] [adv] at [adj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they are not at all the same , being invariably grouped into three — Polynesia , Melanesia and Micronesia — on the basis of complicated formulae relating to the race of the islanders , their languages and their geography . |
| 2 | He stood more in the classical Christian tradition , which insisted that self-knowledge and knowledge of God are intimately connected , but that they are not at all the same thing . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not at all a natural mother , ’ said Rachel . |
| 4 | As our Prime Minister is away at such an important summit conference — important for the security of the whole of the western world — does my right hon. Friend think it appropriate at this moment to reaffirm the Government 's commitment to that European pillar , the Western European Union ? |
| 5 | ‘ My father is not at all a well man . |
| 6 | The Lindenhof , in fact , is not at all a bad place to do it , since this is where Zurich 's recorded history begins . |
| 7 | It glamourises what is not at all a glamourous job . |
| 8 | This is not at all an easy task . |
| 9 | She thinks he is not at all the great genius he is made out to be — just possesses a pleasing talent . |
| 10 | This is not at all the simple task that it may at first seem : we shall see that considerable care must be taken in interpreting the official statistics on unemployment . |
| 11 | One can see from this that random sampling is not at all the same as what we might call ‘ personal choice ’ . |
| 12 | For recognizing the restraints and limitations of the old policies is not at all the same as removing them . |
| 13 | ( There may be a difference between such terms in everyday and descriptive use : to argue for a point of view is not at all the same as having an argument , though this is a common confusion . ) |
| 14 | Yes , there is a future for the concept of the mainframe — the centralised repository upon which the whole enterprise needs — but to say that is not at all the same thing as saying that the centralised repository has to be — or even should be — a $50,000 to $100,000 per MIPS machine that runs MVS — or 1100 OS or MCP or BS2000 or GCOS come to that . |
| 15 | After being admitted to hospital where she received treatment for breathing problems , she was said not to need any further treatment ( or was ‘ blocking a bed ’ which is not at all the same thing ) and discharged into a nursing home . |
| 16 | Books that set out to give advice to management never fail to point out that a " no " decision is not at all the same thing as failure to make a decision . |
| 17 | Custom that has been experienced as part of daily life is not at all the same thing as custom that is described in a formal interview . |
| 18 | Moreover the meaning is not at all the same as with to + infinitive , as can be seen from the sample sentences below : ( 39 ) For years she had been driving illegally with a licence obtained in Italy where her brother had sent the examiner a case of wine — not necessary , but she had felt bolstered . |
| 19 | In contrast , it is not at all the formal constitutional duty of judges , at least in Western-type political systems , to serve the purposes of their governments . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's not at all a nice thing to say , Emma , ’ Laura told her sternly . |
| 21 | But it 's not at all a bad idea to have a quick guided tour on your first day to get an idea of the layout , saving a lot of time asking the way and taking the wrong turning . |
| 22 | My master , Dr Grossman , says it is n't at all a dirty book if you read all of it . |
| 23 | That is n't at all the same thing as living . ’ |
| 24 | But most was not at such a high level , was concentrated within the last six or seven generations which ( as Peters notably argues ) was the limit of what a contemporary grandfather could tell as ‘ what my grandfather told me ’ , or ‘ what my father told me about his grandfather ’ ( Peters , 1970 ) . |
| 25 | This was not at all a foolish answer , if one supposes that geometry describes the properties of space and that occupancy of space is the basic property of matter . |
| 26 | She was not at all the uppity , self-important celebrity I read about the next day . |
| 27 | It was not at all the same thing . |
| 28 | In St Petersburg in 1789 the French ambassador was publicly congratulated by the Grand Duke Alexander ( later Alexander I ) on the fall of the Bastille , while Alexander 's younger brother the Grand Duke Constantine , who was later to become an extreme reactionary , was also at first an enthusiastic partisan of the Revolution . |
| 29 | Rose was up at seven the next morning , an hour before the house usually stirred . |
| 30 | She had her own room in the palazzo on the same floor as Anna 's which was n't at all the usual thing then : In I892 . |