Example sentences of "[adv] not [art] [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 | Or is each to remain stubbornly not a piece of a jigsaw puzzle , but in its own watertight compartment , as shown in this diagram ? |
| 4 | While selection of resources was apparently not a problem for teachers , there were several signs that school libraries would welcome greater help in stock selection . |
| 5 | He is first recorded in Leicester in 1382 , but was apparently not a native of the town ; he was called a priest , but doubts about his ordination were later expressed . |
| 6 | EPRDF vice-chairman and acting Prime Minister Tamirat Laynie ( previously incorrectly described as EPLF vice-chairman ) was elected Prime Minister on July 29 ( apparently not a contravention of the charter as the EPRDF was composed of various organizations ) . |
| 7 | However , if divergers are more unconventional , we might expect that some divergent girls would choose science , but this is apparently not the case . |
| 8 | This was apparently not the case in the co-transfection experiment with N-Oct 3 and N-Oct 5 expression plasmids ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And especially not the newspapers if they start nosing . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Not Virgil , especially not the Aeneid , where he has no story worth telling , no sense of personality . |
| 13 | Especially not the car nearest us … the passenger |
| 14 | Perhaps not every chord was quite in place , but this remains orchestrally an exciting performance ; occasional poor balance between voice and stage emanates , I think , from the acoustic properties of the set . |
| 15 | The Family illness is perhaps not a cross-addiction so much as an addictive relationship and a mirror-image of the various primary illnesses . |
| 16 | I wished I had some small thing to show her as a reference : perhaps not a book , an article in a learned journal . |
| 17 | Such opinions have commendable moral tone but they are perhaps not a recipe for electoral success . |
| 18 | ‘ But perhaps not a place to die . ’ |
| 19 | That 's perhaps not a luxury that you can enjoy immediately after London — although the thought of a couple of thousand masseuses standing by to greet the hordes as they cross Westminster Bridge is a novel one ! |
| 20 | So I 'm very , it 's not a picture which unless you are sort of mad keen on horses that i it 's perhaps not a picture which erm will hold your interest for too long . |
| 21 | On the contrary they assist the plaintiff to the extent that his case accords with legislative policy and the Act at least recognises the possibility that he has a valid claim at common law — the fact that the Law Commission , whose Report on Injuries to Unborn Children ( 1974 ) ( Cmnd. 5709 ) led to the Act of 1976 , considered this a probability is perhaps not a matter which the plaintiff can properly pray in aid . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We we are n't , perhaps not the world-power that we used to be . |
| 24 | ‘ He is not — well , he is perhaps not the man you would expect . |
| 25 | But whether or not it is a completely accurate report of what actually happened is perhaps not the point . |
| 26 | Well , perhaps not the politics . |
| 27 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 28 | Would you also agree that haphazard impulse is perhaps not the sort of attribute we 're looking for ? ’ |
| 29 | This was obviously not a name that tripped off the tongue , but the lads rose to it manfully , while managing to weep , groan and , from the sound of it , pull out lumps of each other 's hair at the same time . |
| 30 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |