Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not long ago that Mr Milken was being lionised as the greatest revitaliser of American business since J. Pierpont Morgan . |
| 2 | And the heat of the day , combined with a natural anxiety , made me sweat , though not as profusely as Dr Reid , who was continually wiping his pink , bald head . |
| 3 | Cautiously , Athelstan joined the fray — not as expertly as Sir John , but the long ash pole came into play , creating as much confusion as it did hum . |
| 4 | In my estimation , the best pencils are totally soluble , not relatively so as Mr Robb states . |
| 5 | In my estimation , the best pencils are totally soluble , not relatively so as Mr Robb states . |
| 6 | We should not forget that it was not that long since Samuel Butler had published ( in 1878 ) his famous poem ‘ A Psalm Of Montreal ’ which was evoked by finding that Canadian ‘ philistinism ’ , had removed a Greek statue of Discobolus to a side-room in the Natural History Museum , presently used by a taxidermist , because of its ‘ vulgarity ’ . |