Example sentences of "[vb base] [not/n't] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Voice not so loud as Great Spotted . |
| 2 | Voice not too loud — soften the shock of my looks . |
| 3 | But telescope not far away too . |
| 4 | By contrast , the only Buid words which might be used to translate our concepts of ‘ courage ’ and ‘ bravery ’ carry strongly negative moral overtones : words like isug denote not so much an indifference to personal danger as a tendency to fierceness or violence . |
| 5 | At the moment publishers fear not so much the literary efforts of retiring politicians but those of MPs who have lost their seats . |
| 6 | Yeah , that females are there to do their deed for the species or the race or whatever an and er and indeed I mean not so long ago you know in our own country I mean |
| 7 | Let us be adult about this and accept that , in view of the fact that even the very strictest diets suggest that you eat not much less than 1,000 calories daily , those three calories are n't going to make a jot of difference to your weight loss . |
| 8 | The rate at which you eat not only strongly influences how much you want to eat but — more surprisingly — it influences the length of time elapsing before you feel the desire to eat again . |
| 9 | Such comments show not so much an insensitivity to the problems of the locals , but reduces them to cyphers , tourist attractions almost , along with the surrounding scenery . |
| 10 | ‘ Look not too long , mortal . ’ |
| 11 | It 's very well played by the original instruments of Tafelmusik under the expert direction of Bruno Weil , and very well recorded , but the singers , though never less than adequate , sound not much more convinced of its merits than I am . |
| 12 | At 77/467 and again at 80/512 , reference to the ‘ quai ’ or ‘ quais ’ at or of ‘ Siracusa , seem not much less adventitious , in the sense that location in the Sicilian city of Syracuse seems , at first sight anyhow , not to be significant . |
| 13 | Carves your eyes clear not so quickly |
| 14 | However , in my opinion , the best parts of it are those which present not so much the strictly emotivist thesis as a more general attitudinist thesis which is more convincing when detached from the former . |
| 15 | for young people and if one of the things that corporations to my mind have a positive duty to do which is the social responsibility and we live in a society so increasingly fractured , rudderless and you know not so far away in places from anarchy that they have a duty to do things which effect maybe to see one the Bs not the A ones the Bs |
| 16 | I mean you 've co I mean a long , you know not that long ago , you were sort of tending to put it off a lot . |
| 17 | The Foundation 's funds , although they arise in modest sums from events such as the concerts and total not much more than £300,000 , have a disproportionate effect in use . |
| 18 | I remember not too long ago we had nt had a striker who scored 20+ goals since the Revie days . |
| 19 | I mean slap not just sideways with his hand and then he 'd give you the strap after that . |
| 20 | I suppose not entirely so . |
| 21 | However , as the belief in metaphysical realism declined in the nineteenth century in favour of more nominalist , relativist or generally hesitant views of knowledge , the concept of a liberal education seemed to lose its firm epistemological foundation and become not so much a theory of knowledge as a theory of ignorance . |
| 22 | FORTE AND TESSERACT NOT FAR BEHIND |
| 23 | And , and we have erm maybe twenty or so of these , some of which go not much below four degrees , but some of which in fact really go to quite low temperatures . |
| 24 | I think not only just at fire stations , I think in the whole of life , has n't it ? |
| 25 | Advocacy schemes focus on the rights , entitlements and choices of individuals , but they do not generally much influence the wider issues of the way services are planned , shaped and managed . |
| 26 | One of our difficulties — and one reason why debates such as this are so welcome — is that we do not yet quite understand or know what we are trying to achieve . |
| 27 | We do not yet really know why . |
| 28 | But we do not yet fully understand how people comprehend such sentences . |
| 29 | Lessors do not however always act with great speed ! |
| 30 | You do not however now own a house in France . |