Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much not the case with Tolkien . |
| 2 | But he was younger than she was and so very much not the type of person she was used to meeting . |
| 3 | However , if divergers are more unconventional , we might expect that some divergent girls would choose science , but this is apparently not the case . |
| 4 | This was apparently not the case in the co-transfection experiment with N-Oct 3 and N-Oct 5 expression plasmids ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 5 | When Alison had pushed him he 'd started to gather the momentum to ask the same questions that were obsessing Forester — apparently not the reaction she 'd expected , judging from the way that she seemed to have slammed the lid back on the mixture before it could boil over . |
| 6 | And especially not the newspapers if they start nosing . |
| 7 | ‘ But she would come in from time to time to inspect the ingredients and make sure everything was fresh , nothing frozen , dried or packeted , especially not the orange juice for breakfast , which had to be freshly squeezed from three kilos of oranges . |
| 8 | Not Virgil , especially not the Aeneid , where he has no story worth telling , no sense of personality . |
| 9 | Especially not the car nearest us … the passenger |
| 10 | Some of the children in our study felt desperately disappointed that they had not been adopted , and yet they did have a home which would continue to be available to them in their adult life and had found a kind of loving , though perhaps not the all-accepting , all-loving parent of their dreams . |
| 11 | We we are n't , perhaps not the world-power that we used to be . |
| 12 | ‘ He is not — well , he is perhaps not the man you would expect . |
| 13 | But whether or not it is a completely accurate report of what actually happened is perhaps not the point . |
| 14 | Well , perhaps not the politics . |
| 15 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 16 | Would you also agree that haphazard impulse is perhaps not the sort of attribute we 're looking for ? ’ |
| 17 | They are difficult to investigate as the ones carrying out the dealing are obviously not the ones who have access to the inside information . |
| 18 | This developmental ideal is expressed in the German term ‘ Erziehung ’ ( pedagogy ) of which school-based education is therefore only a partial aspect ( and obviously not the concern of this legislation ) . |
| 19 | This is often misunderstood as cleaning oneself of contamination , but is obviously not the case as is proven by the fact that they had to clean themselves carefully before going into the bath , or mikva as it is called , so it becomes clear that it was to purify themselves spiritually , not physically . |
| 20 | This is obviously not the case . |
| 21 | This is obviously not the time for celebratory gestures . |
| 22 | Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about . |
| 23 | I 've looked over the shoulder at a few of these and they are obviously not the sort of thing , that you came sliding out of your mother 's womb knowing how to do . |
| 24 | Anyway , someone pointed out that the face in the mirror was obviously not the face of the woman looking into it , something to do with the angle at which the mirror was held , and what theory they attached to that , whether it had been intended , or a mistake , or even an overpainting at a later date — he did not remember that he had known about that . |
| 25 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
| 26 | However , according to the decisions of labour courts , agency workers are not only not the employees of the client organisation or user firm , they are also not the employees of the agency which supplies them . |
| 27 | One of the members , who included seven householders , three servants ( presumably journeymen ) and a clerk , was Janyn Perowe , assessed at 40s. ; another was John Richard , a £10 man , and presumably not the labourer of the same name . |
| 28 | More widespread concern about bank credit risk or the imposition of credit controls on the banking system could stimulate the development of the market , but they are presumably not the routes through which the Bank of England would prefer development to take place . |
| 29 | There were places where it was effectively not the Principal but the local authority that was running the college — a tradition of detailed local authority control over further education Institutions that it was difficult to break even in developed institutions . |
| 30 | Marx 's and Engels 's materialism is thus not the denial of the importance of ideas , concepts , and values for people , like the materialism of Feuerbach , but an assertion that ideas ultimately have a material origin in the real conditions of existence , a history which consists in a complicated interplay and conflict of different factors , some directly material , some mental ( though material in origin ) . |