Example sentences of "[adv] not [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also necessary specifically to select veined material for study , hitherto not a regular practise in traditional carbonate petrography . |
| 2 | He had spoken Lear 's opening lines and I had felt a shiver run through the theatre 's great darkness , because the voice was there , and the power of it , and he was suddenly not a dirty old man at all , but a great , kind , foolish and painfully honest King . |
| 3 | The more general international implications of this thesis , however , may require modification since in a country like Sweden , which has a very high level of white-collar union density , government action was apparently not a necessary condition for the growth of such unions ( Adams , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | Apparently not a single conceptual drawing survives to demonstrate how Nash conveyed his intentions to those in his office who made his presentation watercolours . |
| 5 | This was apparently not the right thing to say . |
| 6 | We are beginning to think that the proceedings are expressly designed not to produce a verdict , and especially not a guilty one . |
| 7 | Having discovered all this at life 's two-furlong pole , Piggott is not about to let some doctor tell him that he wo n't finish the race — especially not an American doctor . |
| 8 | It is permissible for journalists to get drunk at these affairs — and indeed encouraged — but not recommended that the executives of the company doing the presentation do so , and especially not the joint managing directors . |
| 9 | It is perhaps not a surprising liaison , considering that the British drug industry is one of the superstar contributors to our balance of payment figures . |
| 10 | I can make what is perhaps not a usual boast in Scotland : I can claim that some of my best friends are Conservatives . |
| 11 | Perhaps not a million miles from Hannay 's unwilling female companion in The Thirty Nine Steps was Barbara Wright , the human element in the series . |
| 12 | ‘ On the other hand , perhaps not a good idea , ’ said Sacco . |
| 13 | mind you it 's perhaps not a good idea to go and have a look not with this |
| 14 | Perhaps not a great deal , but at least a glimmer ! |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps not a Jacobite Guinea ; but it must have been something worth having . ’ |
| 16 | As slaves were to be found in all the American colonies and were an important , though perhaps not a vital , part of the economy of Virginia , Maryland , and the Carolinas , the Georgians were asking only that they should be allowed to do what everyone else did . |
| 17 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 18 | If patients wish to give up coffee , it is perhaps not a bad thing . |
| 19 | That 's it M A L E so it 's perhaps not a bad idea that we spell it differently cos you can tell which one you 're talking about then . |
| 20 | One way to avoid losing this information , but perhaps not an ideal solution , is to keep an empty ‘ lecturer ’ record for that particular senior lecturer . |
| 21 | And it was in this room , quietly and simply , that Morse told her of the death of Theodore Kemp , considering , in his own strange fashion , that it was perhaps not an inappropriate time for her to know . |
| 22 | Here at last was an obstacle to the streetwise , although perhaps not an insurmountable one . |
| 23 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 24 | Perhaps not the literal truth ( it is unlikely that Jane Eyre , the unloved orphan , should come into a fortune and gain mastery over Rochester who was once her master or that Pip should be ‘ raised from his station ’ by a mysterious benefactor , who turns out to be Magwitch , the convict he once fed ) , but what Henry James called ‘ the truth of the imagination ’ . |
| 25 | Perhaps not the lime-green hat , then ? |
| 26 | It 's almost a confession — though that is perhaps not the right word — of the depth of feeling . |
| 27 | well certainly one could do that , but it , it , it would preferably if my suspicions if er imposing perhaps not the right word , er define er at the outset we erm the time limits that er are envisaged for the obtaining of magistrate licence or than that I 'm |
| 28 | For all his undoubted talent Grayson may not have been a budding Ian Rush but he turned out for one of the country 's most famous clubs , perhaps not the best but certainly one of the best known — Accrington Stanley . |
| 29 | Students receive an overwhelming mass of information during their first weeks at college or university , so this is perhaps not the best time to distribute library handouts . |
| 30 | There are a number of ways to get a game abandoned , although streaking across the pitch in only your underpants , as I did at Lake Town last season , is perhaps not the best . |