Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appalled him to think of living as Tina did , with one lover after another , apparently not even selectively , or as Jed , long separated from his wife and child , consoled by the society of a bird . |
| 2 | Other synthetic polymers are chemically rather more complicated but , elastically , apparently not very widely different . |
| 3 | An acquittal does not necessarily , and perhaps not even typically , falsify a police conclusion that the accused is guilty . |
| 4 | When he had spoken to Zoser something of this had come across , perhaps not consciously but perhaps not completely unconsciously either . |
| 5 | However , they were oppressed , perhaps not altogether surprisingly , by the thought that , if the Act meant no more than , in plain terms , it said , then it was taking a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since the ambit of the exclusion — and thus the utility of the special procedures — would be very considerably narrowed . |
| 6 | They will appreciate this fact — perhaps not altogether consciously — through the forebrain , which will begin to exercise its function of sexual preparation — preparation , that is , for sexual intercourse . |
| 7 | Or perhaps not just near in her case . |
| 8 | " Oh , darling , perhaps not just now , " Maman parted a sticky strand of Nicandra 's green-blonde hair and looked at it sadly for a moment . |
| 9 | Perhaps not very surprisingly , it turns out to have been pure hell - brutality intensified by stupidity . |
| 10 | This will never be an easy concept for people who have always been led [ and perhaps not very well led ! ] but who are very capable of leading themselves . |
| 11 | They were forgotten , along with the conflict which had , briefly , and perhaps not very deeply , divided the generation of Ambrose and Symmachus in the 380s and 390s . |
| 12 | Pictures done in the zoo can be much better than those done in a museum from a dry skin , perhaps not very convincingly stuffed ; but only if there are field sketches too for the artist to work from can he hope to get the background right . |
| 13 | For some languages of expressions it will be possible in general to decide these facts ( though perhaps not very efficiently ) , and in any reasonable language thee should be wide classes of pairs of expressions whose equivalence is decidable . |
| 14 | Sometimes , perhaps not very often during their lifetimes , volcanoes erupt and present a wholly different character . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps not as badly as you wished to go , ’ he interrupted harshly . |
| 16 | The ventral interradial areas are also covered with granules although perhaps not as densely as the dorsal surface . |
| 17 | Well perhaps not as obviously |
| 18 | He came closer to jest , though perhaps not close enough , when asked about his favourite curry : ‘ I wish I had got that many runs this summer . ’ |
| 19 | The first is the sub-genre that bases itself on events in the past that are perhaps not quite yet history . |
| 20 | ‘ Though perhaps not quite as good as the banana . ’ |
| 21 | Furthermore , the resin which is used to bond the fibres is also brittle , perhaps not quite as brittle as the glass , but very nearly so . |
| 22 | He thought that his school was perhaps not quite as civilised as his mother cared to imagine but he remained silent . |
| 23 | Was he perhaps not quite as indifferent to her as he had pretended after all ? |
| 24 | The actual quality in the , in the er print the sharpness , er that sort of thing , is perhaps not quite as good as it should be but I still , an eight for that one . |
| 25 | Perhaps not quite as exaggerated but v very similar . |
| 26 | Apart from regular ‘ cheesecake ’ or ‘ girlie ’ pictures of the sort that help boost the circulation of the popular press in Britain , there were syndicated pieces similar to those bizarre examples quoted above , though perhaps not quite so glaringly irrelevant . |
| 27 | ( Though perhaps not quite so improbable : a hulk I once saw stranded in Port Stanley in the nearby Falkland Islands was called the Jhelum — and both Sutlej and Jhelum are names of rivers in the Punjab . |
| 28 | A combination is perhaps not quite so simple as the beginners first believe . |
| 29 | they were all in it together and er , there was perhaps not quite so much erm side |
| 30 | The young man — perhaps not quite so young after all , he might have been as much as thirty — came forward into the room , closing the door behind him . |