Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 2 | It was not much bigger than a good-sized clothes cupboard and there was one small window in the back wall with a sink under the window , but there were no taps over the sink . |
| 3 | This is a very compact plane , not much bigger than a smoothing plane , weighing in at 1.6kg . |
| 4 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 5 | Consequently , the CEGB needs to convince the inspector not only that the most likely outcome is a negative net-effective cost , but also that the sensitivity of this result to plausible changes in the CEGB 's forecasts is not so great that a positive ( undesirable ) NEC becomes a likely result . |
| 6 | I have gone through this procedure in some detail , not so much as a practical guide as to how to make the arrangements , but to demonstrate how much practical activity surrounds someone 's death . |
| 7 | Nigel Lowson , however , now head of geography at the £9,150-a-year Tonbridge School in Kent , remembers Tim not so much as a staid , jolly , reliable type as a chap with a sense of humour . |
| 8 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 9 | It is above all the body , enveloped in sound , in dance , that stands at the cross-roads of popular music and leisure time ; here the word ‘ Love ’ that is omnipresent in the pop lexicon reads not so much as a romantic cliche but as a coded entry into the world of the private , into the world of pleasure and self-discovery . |
| 10 | The French Dragoons crossed the frontier with drawn swords , but the weapons served no purpose other than to dignify the moment with a suitable melodrama , for there was not so much as a single Dutch customs officer to oppose the invasion . |
| 11 | Better than some , in fact , since he had once had West Riding connections and , as young political agitators went , possessed a relatively unblemished reputation , with not so much as a single term of imprisonment , as yet , to be used against him at the hustings . |
| 12 | No roads , no villages , not so much as a solitary building , not even an animal . |
| 13 | A further protest rose to her lips , but , since she had other more important matters to think about , she obligingly went and placed her foot on the ledge and , raising her trouser leg a little , allowed him to study her beige cotton sock where there was not so much as a broken thread . |
| 14 | In later experiments a brightly coloured plastic bottle was used and the blackbirds even learned to mob this object , although it was not so effective as a novel stuffed bird . |
| 15 | Not only that but a collective bargain is a method of suppressing individual differences between workers . |
| 16 | She was not only confident that a future session would reveal its origins , she was anxious to try again as soon as possible . |
| 17 | Within sets of pictures and patterns to match , it is often possible to develop games where the matching is not merely one-to-one but a complete set of a kind is collected instead , e.g. Happy Families . |
| 18 | This duality of matter and spirit implied a hypocrisy which unsympathetic observers considered to be not merely all-pervasive but a fundamental characteristic of the bourgeois world . |
| 19 | Farming journalists and politicians who visit New Zealand come back convinced life without subsidies is not just attractive but a realistic option — an argument they generally base on claims that British farmers by conventional standards are amongst the most efficient in Europe . |
| 20 | With the Sun now passing through the independent sign of Aries and over the mid-heaven point of your solar chart , you should be at your most outgoing , ambitious and not unduly concerned if a major alteration takes place in the working pattern of your life . |
| 21 | If you need to do the cleaning quickly use an absorbent powder ; it is not as effective as a wet shampoo and you must follow the manufacturer 's instructions carefully . |
| 22 | ‘ Aye , monk , very rare , but not as rare as a holy priest . ’ |
| 23 | Not as much as a normal or coffee . |
| 24 | Not as much as a secondhand Union Jack left . ’ |
| 25 | I have in recent years got into a deal of trouble in certain Commonwealth countries by claiming that any all-Canadian or Australian squadron was not as good as a mixed squadron . |
| 26 | The discharge is not as thick as a gonococcal one and is more often mucoid and clear in colour . |
| 27 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 28 | It is not chemically necessary that a particular hormone has a particular effect — for example , that adrenalin produces bodily changes associated with anger and fear : as far as chemistry is concerned , adrenalin could as well have evolved as a tranquillizer . |
| 29 | Ace had heard the scraping noises on the hull , so she was n't entirely terrified when a scaly , bristly limb extended across the outside of the window next to her . |