Example sentences of "[not/n't] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for the Department of Energy said that the government was " determined to improve energy efficiency , but not at a disproportionate cost and effect to the consumer " . |
| 2 | So the water table is not at a constant level , but rises and falls during the year as the amount of water stored in the aquifer increases and decreases . |
| 3 | The difficulty with such ‘ sympatric ’ speciation is that species differ , not at a single gene locus , but by many genes ; it is hard to see how such a difference could build up if sexual crossing was continuously breaking it down again . |
| 4 | As with other aspects of the landscape , it was the slow , largely undocumented social and economic changes that spelt the death of such settlements , not at a single stroke but over a long period . |
| 5 | But if it is not thoroughly conscious or if the youngster is not at a mature level of understanding any examination of feeling may be very disturbing for the child . |
| 6 | Not at a pretty , I like it all green |
| 7 | The observed pattern , that in all directions the redshift of a galaxy is proportional to its distance from us , can be explained ( if we are not at a special place in the Universe ) only by a uniform universal expansion . |
| 8 | The English Basketball Association officially encourages mixed recreational games , but not at a competitive level … |
| 9 | I know they must deliver to shops but why not at a specified time , say 8-9am , then the shops can open and people can shop without worry . |
| 10 | She was looking , not at a twenty-one-year-old girl , a young and beautiful twenty-one-year-old girl , but a twenty-one-year-old girl that could be taken for thirty , and who was drinking a mixture of brandy and port to ease the strain of her life . |
| 11 | The external doses recorded for the fathers in our study are orders of magnitude lower than the external doses received by survivors of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki , whose children are not at an increased risk of childhood leukaemia . |
| 12 | But not all that much more , not at the actual scene . |
| 13 | The signature of the agreement had been delayed from December 1989 , partly over the question of East German access to the Schengen area , it being finally agreed that border controls would apply only at East Germany 's borders with Poland and Czechoslovakia and not at the existing inter-German border . |
| 14 | It was struck not at the weak man who suffered it but at the strong God who was the man 's master . |
| 15 | But not at the first interview . |
| 16 | The tobacco trade has become part of Gibraltar culture and is legal there , but not at the other end . |
| 17 | Otherwise we , who after all live in the everyday world and not at the atomic level , would be unaware of the observation . |
| 18 | There have been one or two double-handers but not at the highest level . |
| 19 | The highest level of system operation thus takes place , not at the normal detailed entity level , but at a level where only functioning spaces are considered . |
| 20 | The drama course for professional performers which does not at the present time qualify for a mandatory award , is fully accredited by the National Council of Drama Training as is the Acting Option of the Graduate Diploma course . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't see that it matters , ’ said Betty ; ‘ not at the Agricultural Fair . ’ |
| 22 | She thumbed towards the wall as if her mother were just beyond and not at the far end of the corridor . |
| 23 | It was also the first time that her 21-year-old adopted daughter Soon-Yi , Allen 's new lover , was not at the traditional family meal . |
| 24 | After the publication of the plan , numbers were reduced , though not at the anticipated rate and only in the face of strong criticism from some quarters . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not opposed to specialisation , but certainly not at the tender age of 16 . ’ |
| 26 | It 's feared that without active promotion tourism may suffer in the region , perhaps not at the major centres but at small businesses like bed and breakfasts . |
| 27 | Do n't hesitate , do n't look down , not at the stones , not at the wheels , not at the rushing sleepers . |
| 28 | In bars 11–12 , the root note of the Am add 11 chord should be played not at the 7th fret of the D string , as in the start of the piece , but as an open A string . |
| 29 | This is often an unintentional form of steering which happens when the sail is not at the correct angle to the wind — the section of the sail next to the mast does not fill with wind and the driving force acts from a couple of feet farther back . |
| 30 | When Peter and Anna had come for interview , Anna had looked at the hills with hunger , and not at the cramped kitchen or the meanly proportioned sitting-room , and had urged Peter to accept . |