Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This produces a hypsometric curve which shows the elevations of those regions lying between the continental platforms and the ocean basins and suggests that the true break between the continents and oceans lies not at present sea level but some 200 m or so lower . |
| 2 | This system , generally known as the Cabinet system , has been , in its broad features , adopted by most European constitutional states , and it matters not at all whether they are called monarchies or republics . |
| 3 | The fact that none of them could decipher it matters not at all . |
| 4 | This record though , has not at all reduced the importance of output and employment in small units of production . |
| 5 | China 's initial response was that the speech could not be considered as a basis for talks " because it has not at all relinquished the concept of the independence of Tibet " , but on Sept. 23 disclosed an offer to hold direct negotiations to which the Dalai Lama responded positively . |
| 6 | Williams , Textbook of Criminal Law , 2nd edn , Stevens & Sons , 1983 , 764 , criticised Pitham : if a butler invites the maid to join him in stealing the Duke 's silver when he has found the key to the safe , surely he has not at that time appropriated the silver . |
| 7 | The government has not at this stage , legislated in this area , but I understand in their next White Paper , they probably will take away the ceiling that presently exists , so that a rich offender could pay a lot more for his fine than er a person of average means . |
| 8 | Now a man may marry his stepmother or stepdaughter , or a woman her stepfather or stepson , provided that the younger person is aged at least 21 and has not at any time before reaching the age of 18 lived as a child of the family of the older person . |
| 9 | No he has n't at all . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think there 's anybody who 's worked here for a time who has n't at some time felt like crying , or who has n't actually cried or felt really down . |
| 11 | Honestly , though , who out there has n't at several junctions been reduced by sleeplessness , exhaustion and sheer frustration into staring over the heads of your babies at the man who fathered them , and thinking what in hell 's name am I doing with this person ? |
| 12 | He is free born and trembles not at priestly threats or the papal curse … |
| 13 | They are very high quality soft pastels , with a wonderfully creamy texture which varies not at all from colour to colour , unlike other pastel ranges I have bought , where I have sometimes found that the darkest colours have been brittle and irritatingly scratchy to use . |
| 14 | On the cold hill , a fence now surrounds the circle , and it interferes not at all with the mood or countenance of the rocks . |
| 15 | The system , with formal judicial intervention , has worked successfully in the US ; it operates informally but without full judicial approval in England and Wales ; but at the present time it obtains not at all in Scotland . |
| 16 | It follows that we can form no clear notion of spatial or temporal order among existents with uncompleted life-cycles ; and this , in reality , means not at all . |
| 17 | The latter 's daughter , Lady Joan , is certainly interested in ‘ the Condition of England Question ’ , and his guests include the principled , High-Church , and well-born clergyman , St Lys , who retorts to Lord Mamey that war on the cottage does not at first seem so startling a cry as war on the castle . |
| 18 | One thing to be said of that is that it does not at all follow , from the fact that we can not give particular descriptions of items that fall within a set , that we can not satisfactorily conceive of and describe the set . |
| 19 | But it does not at all follow from the fact that causal circumstances in a sense guarantee their effects that we can predict those effects better than we do . |
| 20 | The ability to enjoy , create and teach literature does not at all imply an equal ability to organize recorded knowledge for retrieval , though it is not necessarily its opposite . |
| 21 | No , the suspense novel does inherit from the traditional detective story that element of mystery ( though this need not involve a murder and the mystery of who committed it ) , but it does not at all inherit the need to have a battle of wits with the reader . |
| 22 | There is not space to discuss here even briefly the many controversial issues raised in the literature on corporatism , but in so far as territorial politics are concerned , it must be observed that even if there was or is a trend towards greater centralisation of political representation , this does not at all mean that there might not also be a functional deconcentration towards the periphery in specific cases . |
| 23 | This does not at all mean that the study of aphasia and theories about the language processing system have nothing to say to each other . |
| 24 | Bourdieu has written on traditional societies and modern society , but does not at all on the face of it seem to have a theory of modernization . |
| 25 | All this does not at all mean that monopoly , within our framework of discussion has become less potentially dangerous or less important . |
| 26 | It does not at all . |
| 27 | Admittedly , she does not at any point in her letter state explicitly her desire to return ; but that is the unmistakable message conveyed by the general nuance of many of the passages , imbued as they are with a deep nostalgia for her days at Darlington Hall . |
| 28 | It does not at this stage include any specific new products . |
| 29 | It is worth noting in this context that the TEI does not at this stage plan to develop any software to support the scheme , independence of software being a prime design goal ; subsequent phases of this or successor projects may well however elect to do so . |
| 30 | It does n't at that section . |