Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Public Service Commission controlled all appointments ; there were 13 entrenched clauses which could only be altered by the vote of the five regional councils : a not altogether unbiased observer called this ‘ Government by Civil Servants behind a Parliamentary facade ’ . |
| 2 | So it , it is hard to say , erm and I would n't like to make a prediction except that I think the number of postgraduate students may have fallen more than the number of undergraduate students , and that we may see already even in this first year erm a substantial not altogether healthy change in the national makeup of overseas students . |
| 3 | Volume , too , was in abundance , although any serious overindulgence in this respect was rewarded by distortion of a not altogether pleasant type . |
| 4 | From the point of view of natural creation , however , dare we suggest that a not altogether unfeeling God introduced the sound as a warning to its prey , so that in the natural economy , mosquitoes did not have an unfair advantage and that all warm-blooded creatures in mosquito-infested areas were not permanently condemned to a life of itching and scratching ! |
| 5 | Swainson was a man of parts , not altogether unlike Darwin in some respects . |
| 6 | Measured against ‘ a stagnant US economy , a not altogether successful satellite programme , and perennial crises in NATO ’ ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 179 ) , these developments created high expectations expressed at the November 1960 Conference of Eighty-One parties in the definitive formulation that ’ the superiority of the forces of socialism over those of imperialism … is becoming ever more marked in the world arena' ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 181 ) . |
| 7 | Though natural light was obviously not an amenity they thought much of , there are traces of glazing in a few of those infrequent and shapeless holes that howl in the wind ; elsewhere , of a primitive and not altogether unsuccessful stab at ferrocrete . |
| 8 | Taken as a piece , these describe the not altogether calming preoccupations of this ‘ golden ’ Edwardian era . |
| 9 | Martha Forbes is a lively young American single parent whose not altogether nice ex-husband is killed in a plane crash . |
| 10 | The not altogether clear provisions regarding audit , finality and certainty mean that adjustments could well take place long after a partner has left a firm . |
| 11 | In this astoundingly popular and not altogether unpersuasive book , Miss Edwards sponsors a pedagogical programme designed to diminish the influence of linguistically determined ways of seeing the world . |
| 12 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 13 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 14 | The store had a peculiar and not altogether wholesome odour , a cross between a creek when the tide is out and the smell produced by the local sewage works . |
| 15 | For those villagers who accepted their ‘ place ’ this created a sense of psychological certainty and with it a not altogether unwelcome sense of security . |
| 16 | For those villagers who accepted their ‘ place ’ this created a sense of psychological certainty and with it a not altogether unwelcome sense of security . |
| 17 | These matters are important because they explain how Pound and Eliot , who had campaigned as a team and would help each other for many years to come , radically differed not just in themes and attitudes ( of which something will be said hereafter ) but at this deep level , in the not altogether conscious interstices of their craft . |
| 18 | Licensed dealers as well as stockbrokers were feeling the pinch of sudden market setbacks , and not altogether satisfactory trade figures . |
| 19 | There was a shocked but not altogether hostile silence . |
| 20 | But lying behind this is a rather higher claim which deserves not altogether sceptical consideration . |
| 21 | More importantly , but in a not altogether dissimilar way , in the lower and middle ranks of diplomacy at least seniority gained ground as a reason for promotion at the expense of nepotism and favouritism . |
| 22 | Later on , and particularly in 1950 , one might wonder whether the particulars of US policy towards Vietnam had been swamped in the generalities of across-the-board resistance to communism ; but even before some critics have discerned a militarization and globalization of US policy , and before the emotional climate of the US changed , one may see , as a piece of sober analysis , the beginning of a policy based on certain not altogether unfounded assumptions about communism , China , and the objectives of the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | I had become far too used to hearing not conspicuously brilliant boys called Socrates and Aristotle , and to addressing the ill-favoured old woman who did my room out as Aphrodite , to smile . |
| 24 | Large quantities of the same pamphlet might the more readily suggest that the defendant 's purposes were not wholly innocent ones . |
| 25 | Pickup selection is via a toggle switch mounted on the upper wing' , towards the neck of the guitar , which is an unusual but not wholly impractical place for it . |
| 26 | Some generalisations proved possible , but only in a piecemeal and not wholly consistent fashion . |
| 27 | Blackwell produced an ingenious if not wholly convincing scheme for a land bank , to provide credit and to help overcome the colony 's chronic shortage of specie . |
| 28 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 29 | This is not wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . |
| 30 | But that end you ought to have had a firm , if not wholly clear idea of from the earliest thought you gave to your story . |