Example sentences of "[adv] not [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | This swash bar may be pushed up above high tide level and is obviously not destroyed by a falling tide as would be a break point bar . |
2 | An example is ‘ Would you rather not live in a non-fluoridated water area ? ’ . |
3 | She says that science is still not regarded as a safe subject — it makes her sad . |
4 | Although probably not suffering from a serious psychiatric illness , he is likely to feel confused , angry , and ( above all else ) hopeless . |
5 | One of the best and cheapest around is the Alesis 3630 which , at only 1U , offers features often not found on a single model . |
6 | Secondly there are restraints upon the business in which the person receiving the business secrets may engage ( ie not to compete in a certain way for a particular time because of the risk of use or disclosure of business secrets ) . |
7 | At 22 , he has shrugged off his brat-pack contemporaries by simply not behaving like a typical ’ brat ’ . |
8 | Masklin tried hard not to look like a minor organism . |
9 | The authors present Lucy as an example of punctuation : rapidly becoming human and bipedal from the ape ancestor , then not changing for a million years . |
10 | Over ninety percent of the world 's data is indeed not held in a relational database , and it may not be appropriate for all forms of information . |
11 | By including in the survey questionnaire certain of the items from the Solihull survey ( see Chapter 8 ) concerning school self-evaluation as a general notion ( i.e. not associated with a specific scheme ) , we were also able to contrast the attitudes towards SSE of the teachers in the two LEAs , the one operating a voluntary scheme , the other a mandatory one . |
12 | Legal rights are therefore not enshrined in a written constitution or roman law but are the results of administrative acts by government bodies or courts of law . |
13 | The last term I was at school , I was eighteen , and therefore not entitled to a half-price season ticket . |
14 | It has certainly not led to a greater family stability . |
15 | We are also very strongly influenced by our expectations ; if we have heard and understood half a sentence , it seems that our brain is already guessing at what the rest of it will be before it is heard , and is certainly not acting in a passive way like a simple machine . |
16 | However , he was certainly not cast in a common mould . |
17 | I said , ‘ I can certainly not write about a real place : I 'd be arrested ’ ’ |