Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not altogether surprising considering the factors militating against their preservation — break-up of skeletons after death , the necessity to have a skeleton incorporated with sediment , and the activities of predatory and scavenging animals to destroy remains . |
| 2 | I fancy moreover that this feeling of unreality , which obtruded itself on me at intervals , exists permanently among the majority of the new Imperial household , and is not altogether absent from the minds of the Emperor and the Empress themselves though they play their roles with consummate skill and ease , particularly the Empress . |
| 3 | It was not wholly unreasonable for the protesters to view this as " imprisonment " without trial . |
| 4 | Lanfranc was an upright and able man , but perhaps not wholly averse to the manipulations of worldly policy . |
| 5 | What 's more , he did n't like her — which meant , in Kronweiser idiom , that he did n't trust her — which meant , in its turn , that she was not wholly devoted to the interests of Dwight Kronweiser , MA , Ph.D . |
| 6 | Thus an inductivist rationalist might rule that astrology is not a science because it is not inductively derivable from the facts of observation , whilst a falsificationist might rule that Marxism is not scientific because it is not falsifiable . |
| 7 | Nevertheless I have since been informed by Richard Buckley that ( if the concept is not entirely meaningless in the circumstances ) the Co-op gives ‘ the best value for money ’ , in terms of materials used in their coffins and the general finish and quality of the handles and name-plate etc . |
| 8 | ‘ Our staff turnover is down 50 per cent and that is not entirely due to the effects of the recession , ’ says general manager of the Holiday Inn Bristol , a Scotts ' hotel which recently completed a £10 million refurbishment and emerged as the Bristol Marriott . |
| 9 | Amidst the verbiage and jargon of these investigations were conclusions that must have reflected the fears of many respectable Americans , but what is interesting is that the reports were not entirely negative about the movies as such . |
| 10 | Within the team , formal status differentials were not entirely clear to the evaluators , not least because the bureaucratic structures of the education and library services are not exactly comparable , nor are the scales of pay representative of comparable scales of responsibility . |
| 11 | This ‘ Cowocracy ’ , as they were called , were not entirely blind to the evils of slums and overcrowding . |
| 12 | I am not entirely averse to the compositions of Monteverdi . ’ |
| 13 | The effect of these was to transfer the common land to private ownership ; the dispossessed commoners were given small pockets of land or other compensation , but these were not necessarily equivalent to the rights they had lost . |
| 14 | There had been that unfortunate controversy in the local Press with the manager of the Palladium , when he had been compelled , under pressure from his bishop , to issue a statement to the effect that all films were not necessarily harmful in the eyes of the Church . |
| 15 | If this could be achieved — and there seems little reason why not — then a whole new phase of storage protection could begin instead of trying to adapt systems which , while suited to use in a hot gas layer beneath a ceiling , are not basically suitable to the problems involved in high-racked storage . |
| 16 | Despite what I have said , I am not especially critical of the brewers . |
| 17 | Not much good for the traders though . |
| 18 | But their notion of structure is a good deal narrower than that of the Prague School , which included all the different levels of the text and not just its meaning ; and they were not much interested in the ideas of difference , defamiliarization or deviance to which the Formalists and their successors attached so much weight . |
| 19 | Southwood was not much interested in the tactics of the Labour movement . |
| 20 | But not so good for the children who soudainement they 'ave no mother ! |
| 21 | The élite are lucky and get attention quite promptly , but it 's not so easy for the masses . |
| 22 | Adenauer believed that a new democratic German army could be created but others were not so confident after the experiences of the past . |
| 23 | Some shots undoubtedly had hit the hulls also , but the effect of these was not so evident to the onlookers . |
| 24 | I 'm not so bothered about the windows so much cos if they break someone 's bound to hear them smash . |
| 25 | This last factor , however , is not only relevant to the experiences of the new nations . |
| 26 | This report has the double ingredients of being about a person who was not only subject to the attentions of The Fox but also a relative . |
| 27 | Recent reconnaissance has emphasized that this source was not merely remote from the centres which it served , but that it could be operated only under conditions of some rigour . |
| 28 | Many companies are not sufficiently aware of the conflicts of interest that can arise in practice . |
| 29 | Off stage , he 's not exactly full of the joys of life either , despite being the latest comic to be given his own Channel 4 series . |
| 30 | Singing and dancing is not just good for the spirits , it 's also good for the heart and lungs and the limbs ! |