Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chuckled inwardly , thinking that maybe the boy was not altogether lost to him . |
| 2 | In some ways not altogether opposed to the hygienist school ( they did not very much approve of cuddling , although as early as 1932 Ian Suttie had protested against the ‘ taboo on tenderness ’ ) , nevertheless a basic interest in the child 's natural intellectual and social development , together with a less inhibited approach to sexual function , opened the door to greater permissiveness generally . |
| 3 | But in one or two areas the corporate development is not wholly related to these . |
| 4 | Robespierre 's experiment was , scarcely surprisingly , a dismal failure ; and while the delicious dream of a universal , natural and reasonable religion may have an understandable attraction for those who are influenced by but not wholly committed to Christian ( or some other ) belief , it does not appear capable of offering any very stable resting-place , or any adequate defence against the more radical challenges to religion as such which have been raised from without and within Christian theology in modern times . |
| 5 | Thus we have a situation where data is not transformed into information , ie what staff need is information that addresses a specific need or objective of their job , and what typically they receive is a mass of data not properly tailored to their needs and so difficult to penetrate that it falls into disuse . |
| 6 | Secondly , the techniques , although not widely developed to date , may culminate in the creation of more productive plant and animal crops that could help alleviate food scarcity problems in developing countries by increasing the viability of traditionally based agroecosystems , thus obviating the need for the cultivation of new lands . |
| 7 | This provision is not widely known to farmers , largely because the Departments have never taken sufficient trouble to spell it out . |
| 8 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every self-employed person to conduct his undertaking in such a way as to ensure , so far as is reasonably practicable , that he and other persons ( not being his employees ) who may be affected thereby are not thereby exposed to risks to their health or safety . ’ |
| 9 | Whichever way we look at these figures , whether we believe they represent a real increase in the rate of sexual violence or not , the decreasing conviction rate indicates that the state has not effectively responded to demands that sex crimes be treated more seriously . |
| 10 | When moving around the surface of the Earth , one can not fail to be impressed by the diversity of all that one sees , and it is easy to imagine that there is an infinite complexity of different ‘ things ’ not apparently related to one another . |
| 11 | We have also encountered patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in France who were not apparently linked to any previously described ethnogeographic cluster of this mutation but bore it , suggesting the existence of separate foci . |
| 12 | Not all called to Zaire , Brazil , etc , but we are called to SUPPORT and PRAY in specific and informed ways for those who are , and we at home must get out and reach those in our own community . |
| 13 | The differing styles of these articles mean they are not all suited to publication in similar outlets , but it is hoped that unlike past years ' winners we shall see all of them published in some form or other in the coming year . |
| 14 | When acting for management , it is important to ensure that the ratchet is not entirely geared to the vagaries of the stock market in the event of a flotation , but also reflects the profitability of the company . |
| 15 | And the audience of a state radio station is not entirely limited to that state . |
| 16 | He liked her , she was fun , but not entirely suited to Carter 's chaste outlook . |
| 17 | Though not entirely restricted to Friends , it was an approach particularly appealing to people in whom quietist instincts remained strong both before and after the direct political involvement exemplified by the election of Joseph Pease to parliament in 1832 . |
| 18 | If not entirely restricted to the west country , there are no significant remains in the east ( i.e. around London , Verulamium , or Colchester ) . |
| 19 | Habitus thereby mediates between material conditions including , but not entirely reduced to , productive relations , and the observable practices of the social group . |
| 20 | Indeed , it was on those occasions when Branson had invested in projects not obviously related to the pop milieu that the losses had been greatest ; clothes , restaurants , Event magazine . |
| 21 | The pattern of adhesion ( diffuse or localised ) was not obviously related to hydrophobicity , although only nine localised isolates were tested . |
| 22 | And it appears from what the county council has said that they are they 're not necessarily opposed to this sort of development that we 're we 're looking at here but that er the case would have to be proven as an exception to normal planning policy . |
| 23 | Whatever the rules were , they were not necessarily made to be broken , but they were n't necessarily there to be obeyed either . |
| 24 | Thirdly , there is an autonomous definition of conservatism in which conservatism is not necessarily connected to any economic group and is not rooted in a particular historical configuration . |
| 25 | Affinitive relationships that exist between terms are not necessarily connected to one another in any fixed hierarchical manner . |
| 26 | THERE are secrets to being a boss which are not necessarily connected to ditching your pals on the way up . |
| 27 | The lay subsidy rolls of the fourteenth century yield much information on the subject of bynames and surnames for all categories of persons , and in many cases it seems true to say that such names were not necessarily applied to whole families nor ( given that they appear in different forms in successive rolls ) can they be judged to have stabilized . |
| 28 | It was in this context that the Beats reverenced modern jazz — and the influence of their ideas ( not necessarily tied to that specific music ) spread widely through marginal counter — and subcultures ( see Brake 1980 ) . |
| 29 | Sound-broadcasting is a particular skill , not necessarily related to literary ability though impossible without it . |
| 30 | As with mangrove forests , they do not consist of a single species that happens to have exploited a particular niche , but of a whole group of species , not necessarily related to each other , each of which is adapted to the rich pickings . |