Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all obscure , & not purposely either . |
| 2 | Floribundas Pruning for Floribundas follows the same general principles as for H.T.s , except that it should & not so hard — the first year cut-back should be T-2 inches ( 2.5–5cm ) longer , leaving some 4–6 inches ( 10–15cm ) of stem from the base and still aiming for outward-pointing buds to develop the open cup shape . |
| 3 | Where not long ago the forest was thought of as an ‘ enemy ’ , it is now a source of life and livelihood . |
| 4 | The area had been built up where not long before , according to Defoe 's account , there were fields of grass with cows feeding in them . |
| 5 | Parents may be too busy to attend to them or not fast enough in their reactions and understanding of what is required and so the child tantrums in desperation and anger . |
| 6 | Hence current management has an incentive to suggest that information they have ( presumably private to them or not previously sufficiently appreciated ) suggests a rosy future under the present regime . |
| 7 | Or not yet anyway . |
| 8 | The third point is that where an exemption clause is not invalidated ( or not completely so ) by section 3 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act , the buyer may still be able to defeat the exemption clause by relying on section 6 , section 8 or section 2 of that Act . |
| 9 | Or not up there ? |
| 10 | Mark Hateley and I have 70 between us , which is incredible , but it really does n't matter if I score or not tomorrow just as long as we get one more than Bruges . ’ |
| 11 | Baxter , for instance , concluded that it was a ‘ fierce movie … a social tract and a revolutionary one ’ , but , although he had been able to explain the way the film had produced such ‘ fierce ’ effects , he was unable , or not sufficiently politically motivated , to explain why it was so ‘ revolutionary ’ as a ‘ social tract ’ . |
| 12 | You will be concerned with what may be called the degree of pruning : do you prune hard , ruthlessly to ground level , or not so drastically ? |
| 13 | I thrived on the praise and admiration , loved to show off , and secretly ( or not so secretly ) thought myself superior to older children who had not yet acquired my special skills . |
| 14 | So what we 're going to do is to trail our coats in a variety of sessions , to suggest a variety of things to you , and see whether you agree with them or not so please feel free to come in as and when appropriate and see what you think . |
| 15 | Because she has not been caught either , or not so blatantly that one has had to stop pretending to look the other way . |
| 16 | Simply ( or not so simply ) to relocate value onto consumption not only misrecognizes ethnography , it also leaves behind it a problem in the aesthetics of production — a problem which has both critical and political dimensions . |
| 17 | ‘ Indeed , ’ he said flatly , ‘ we see one among them who does not serve you , Khan , or not so far as we are aware . |
| 18 | How do you cope with it , the ninety three of you who get depressed from time to time , whether it 's severely or or or or not so severely ? |
| 19 | The little sunlit thing had some numen ; or not so much a divinity , as a having known divinity , in it ; of being ultimately certain . |
| 20 | The rope is either too tight or not tight enough , and runs everywhere it should n't . |
| 21 | ‘ Pah , nothing 's left from the previous existence — only the mere lees and dregs of thought , dreams of past time that the creature does not heed , or not half as much as the figments he has derived from Milton ! |
| 22 | They are no longer being managed by the Health Authority across the road , remotely , no no contact between the two , or not enough anyway , no longer being managed by a region fifty miles , or forty miles , whatever it is , up the road to . |
| 23 | No. it 's not a lingering sense of failure that leaves a player hanging around the fringes of the game , or not entirely anyhow , it is a sense of loss as the private world of a county cricket club is left , as the dreams of youth , partially realised , are broken , and the unsteady step towards a different life begins . |
| 24 | 630 , when Oswiu would have been about 18 years of age , and Fín already at least 26 , or not long after . |
| 25 | They refused to eat an egg that was cooked too long or not long enough . |
| 26 | You 're bound to go a little bit too far or not quite far enough . |
| 27 | But sackless is another great North-Eastern word meaning silly , stupid or not quite all there . |
| 28 | ( 1 ) Select a number of consecutive sentences whose combined wordage is not much under or not much over 100 . |
| 29 | Near the cities of New Zealand 's Mainland ( as the proud inhabitants of South Island like to refer to their part of the country ) you can enjoy your flying at Christchurch Airport with the Canterbury Aero Club , or not too far away at Ashburton , perhaps , piloting the Pipers of the Mid-Canterbury Aero Club . |
| 30 | Or not too early in the evening . |