Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great challenge is not so much describing the physiological and anatomical properties of the cells in these streams but understanding their functional significance . |
| 2 | It is easy to understand this , but it 's not so easy to evaluate the different elements of theatre training , and see just how they contribute to the making of that elusive thing , ‘ a compleat actor ’ . |
| 3 | In reality , however , it is not so easy to separate the two . |
| 4 | A fountain can sometimes be incorporated with a waterfall by the use of a two-way junction on the pump outlet , but in most instances the pump is not sufficiently powerful to produce the desired effect . |
| 5 | The stickiness in prices assumed in the model is not sufficiently severe to change the key result of chapter 4 : only the random component of aggregate demand can affect real output . |
| 6 | The family , however , is not sufficiently able to sustain the private identities of people in modern cities or suburbs , and other institutional agencies are needed to support , create , sustain and modify identity . |
| 7 | Back in the classroom it is not always easy to translate the high tech knowledge down to a child 's level . |
| 8 | The problem with value measurements is that they necessarily have a price and quantity component and it is not always easy to separate the two . |
| 9 | In addition , most systems use search strategies to eliminate some partial hypotheses from consideration , and it is not always easy to determine the relative importance of the various components of these strategies . |
| 10 | It is not always easy to find the old , late nineteenth — or early twentieth-century Biarritz amongst the new . |
| 11 | It is not always necessary to have the entire object — a broken piece of the rim of a plate can give us nearly as much information as the entire plate could have done . |
| 12 | In the circumstances it is not strictly necessary to answer the second question ( i.e. the third issue listed above ) , but in case this case goes further I will do so briefly . |
| 13 | Although independent schools are not legally obliged to follow the new national curriculum , which involves the study of 10 subjects , most are likely to do so . |
| 14 | But although it is not now necessary to visit the long row of sea-front cottages , Shieldaig is far too good to be bypassed . |
| 15 | Unlike intarsia , it is not necessary and often not even desirable to wrap the two weaving yarns . |
| 16 | We do not then all have the same ministries . |
| 17 | They might turn out to be the truth , for all Mungo knew , but he was not yet ready to take the shabby magician fully into his confidence . |
| 18 | In the mid-1930s , however , most absolute pacifists were not yet ready to accept the apolitical logic of their beliefs . |
| 19 | When the girls eventually reached home Major and Mrs Burrows were already in bed , but not too tired to hear the tremendous news . |
| 20 | Let me remind the Committee , it 's not too late to cross the political divide |
| 21 | I hope it 's not too late to get the following listed in the ‘ What 's On ’ section in the next issue : |
| 22 | He has taken steps to alleviate the problem of attitude but it is n't always easy to strike the right balance . |
| 23 | LESTER PIGGOTT is n't yet ready to have the green tarpaulin pulled around him while racing officials apply the friendly bullet to his career . |
| 24 | However , they do n't actually all do the same job . |