Example sentences of "[adv] not [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are furthermore not on the ends of words but in the middle : ‘ mariner/tarried in ’ , ‘ timber felled/Nimbrethil ’ , ‘ silver fair/silver were ’ , ‘ like a swan/light upon ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't be such a nincompoop , ’ Madeleine retorted , apparently not in the least disconcerted . |
| 3 | Now I see him coming back in the middle of the afternoon , with , I hope , a railway sandwich or two inside him , apparently not in the least put out at being employed as a busboy . |
| 4 | In February 1980 the Afghan Foreign Minister argued that ‘ the presence of foreign troops in a country , especially when it is requested by that country , is basically not against the principles of non-alignment ’ . |
| 5 | He would n't be too keen on bumping into anyone , especially not with the cargo he had on board . |
| 6 | Shifting to a patient-driven health system was never going to be easy — especially not for the Tories . |
| 7 | By the turn of the century , the majority of women will probably be entitled to the basic pension in their own right , though perhaps not at the full amount . |
| 8 | It 's feared that without active promotion tourism may suffer in the region , perhaps not at the major centres but at small businesses like bed and breakfasts . |
| 9 | Perhaps not last Sunday , and perhaps not on the way to Liam Shakespeare 's front door , but it had happened . |
| 10 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 11 | But perhaps not with the other groups there . |
| 12 | You lie low for a while , and you disperse a handful of coins , singly , perhaps not to the best advantage , but still it 's all clear profit . |
| 13 | If they are a hit , to use a word perhaps not of the big band era , it is probable they will be booked monthly . |
| 14 | WALTER SISULU will have cause in the coming days to reflect , perhaps not for the first time , that stone walls do not a prison make . |
| 15 | The frills and lace are Perhaps not in the best of taste , but fashionable nevertheless . |
| 16 | Perhaps not in the sense of de Maria or Ericson and Ziegler but surely so in the sense that the idea of it often takes precedence over all other of its aspects . |
| 17 | Although perhaps not in the strictest sense of the word ‘ beautiful ’ , the American girl had a very pleasing appearance , and despite her height and strong build , an attractive feminine figure . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps not in the ordinary way . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps not in the political lifetime of most hon. Members but at some future stage , we may see a Community that stretches from one end of Europe to the other , for which I for one will wish to work . |
| 20 | A similar trend in zooplankton abundance is apparent in the western North Pacific — although perhaps not in the central North Pacific . |
| 21 | This dream had at last come true , for Lennie anyway , perhaps not in the way he had expected though . |
| 22 | But by the end she chose to overplay her hand and lost the sympathy of those who could have saved her from her last indignities — though perhaps not from the bottle . |
| 23 | Individuals who wish to travel alone or in small groups may refer to Saga 's latest brochures , whick contain details of holidays to all of these countries , though obviously not to the specific locations . |
| 24 | As was said earlier , since the Piper Alpha incident there has been a succession of serious incidents in the North sea , although obviously not on the same scale as Piper Alpha . |
| 25 | This may be so , but the Cats Protection League was obviously not on the list . |
| 26 | It was highly embarrassing , a sort of indelicacy , to stand on the platform surrounded by a crowd of males who had to be polite but were obviously not in the mood for feminine society . |
| 27 | For instance , accountants and solicitors would normally both enquire into the terms of any leases or major contracts held by the target , and it is obviously not in the investor 's interest to retain both these advisers to carry out the same examination . |
| 28 | He was obviously not in the habit of apologising , and his rather florid complexion grew even more flushed . |
| 29 | The economy will settle down at point A , a position of neoclassical equilibrium from the point of view of firms , though obviously not from the point of view of households , which would prefer to be at point B. Households must therefore revise downwards their planned expenditure on goods in the light of their failure to sell all of their labour services . |
| 30 | They did try to kill the piglet , but as they were quite frightened and obviously not from the right background , they were not very practical about it . |