Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not altogether unhappy at the Publicity Printers during those early pioneer days . |
| 2 | Ted was not altogether happy at the prospect of explaining to her how he came to be covered with mud down the front of his suit . |
| 3 | Sometimes people have um a whole variety of symptoms in later life and perhaps as a consequence of some sort of therapy , some sort of consciousness raising exercise , something like that erm they are not necessarily aware at the start that they 've been abused but sometimes they feel y'know a very compelling sense of memories flooding back . |
| 4 | The news is not necessarily unwelcome at the space agency : NASA 's administrator . |
| 5 | Asked about his writing , the great Jimmy White once admitted that he was n't much good at it , adding : ‘ Not much good at the reading neither . |
| 6 | The race is also being used by Poland , Mexico , Norway and Denmark as their trials for the Olympic Games and though the field is not so strong at the front , it looks to be a proving ground for the visitors , in an effort to beat times already set by their countrymen to enable them to go to Barcelona . |
| 7 | Not so bad at the top . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not exactly neutral at the hacienda , ’ Maggie pointed out . |
| 9 | Not exactly overjoyed at the prospect of looking after her niece , Liesl Silverstone 's aunt secretly attempted to shift the responsibility without her niece knowing : |
| 10 | I know it 's not exactly fashionable at the moment , but it 's the only hope we 've got . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She is not far wrong at the moment . |
| 12 | ‘ Ca n't remember everything on it , I 'm not as good at the reading as you . |
| 13 | She says it will mean that women 's representation at Oxford will be reduced and it 's not even equal at the moment . |
| 14 | He expressed the opinion that she was not fully compos mentis ; that she was not fully rational in making an assessment of her medical condition being unaware how critical her condition was ; and that she was not fully rational at the time of signing the refusal . |
| 15 | She is not too well at the moment and is heavily sedated . ’ |
| 16 | She was not too pleased at the thought of being mistaken for a reporter from the tabloid press . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought them not too bad at the time . |
| 18 | ‘ But you are not too happy at the prospect of leaving your special patient at this stage ? |
| 19 | He 's not very well at the moment . |
| 20 | Well I 'm not very good at the ages like I mean she could be older |
| 21 | But LFF evidence tends to corroborate suggestions that this may be because such film-making is just not very good at the moment . |
| 22 | would n't knock he would n't come down at all and then the everywhere else were knock some off if the market 's not very good at the moment . |
| 23 | This male — female difference in mortality was not very marked at the start of the century but has now emerged strongly . |
| 24 | Cos I 'm not very hungry at the moment . |
| 25 | At Amsterdam he talked out of a vast tradition which otherwise was not very articulate at the meeting . |
| 26 | Imran , 39 , said he was not very optimistic at the moment because the injury ‘ has not improved at all since I played the World Cup final ’ . |