Example sentences of "[conj] not [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Mark Hateley and I have 70 between us , which is incredible , but it really does n't matter if I score or not tomorrow just as long as we get one more than Bruges . ’
2 Because she has not been caught either , or not so blatantly that one has had to stop pretending to look the other way .
3 ‘ Indeed , ’ he said flatly , ‘ we see one among them who does not serve you , Khan , or not so far as we are aware .
4 We will then let you know whether you are exempt or not as soon as possible .
5 Not a trace of the search or the find remained — or not as far as he could see .
6 And that 's a beamer , and DaSilva is , stifled in the extreme , it 's a no ball , now whether that was because it was a beamer I think , but we do n't know whether it 's overstretched or not as far as footwork was concerned , it brought a run down to square leg anyway , and er DaSilva is now eighteen , total a hundred and twelve for three . .
7 Unemployment has fallen in the county , although not as fast as in other parts of the region , but it does appear that some 800 previously unemployed Kent people have gained work as a direct result of the Tunnel .
8 This does n't show through in practice , though , since under Windows , probably one of the most graphically intensive environments you can have , screen updates are acceptably quick , although not as fast as with Windows-optimized accelerated cards .
9 At some localities , late leaching has enhanced the reservoir properties of the slope mudstones , although not as commonly as in the Z1 and Z2 Carbonates .
10 The paintings are now hung in two registers on the walls , although not as thickly as a century or more ago .
11 The same readiness to supplement the wording of an institution is also found , although not as early as the Republic : Ulpian discusses cases in which the esto of heres esto has been left out , or even the whole expression .
12 It went on falling steadily , although not so rapidly as this .
13 However , there do exist , and not so uncommonly that they can be safely ignored , minimal semantic constituents which consist of more than one word .
14 She was relieved the cut was small and not very deep although it was bleeding steadily .
15 He rubbed himself briskly and not too thoroughly and put on his clothes with all speed .
16 He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain .
17 Professor Pacey referred to Layton as ‘ a poet of revolutionary individualism , ’ and there can be no doubt that that individualism was a common tie , and not merely religiously but in every way .
18 Even in the revised version of their paper , which takes account of Lavandera 's comments , Weiner and Labov are obliged to argue tortuously and not always convincingly that their alternants are semantically equivalent .
19 The RoboCop is basically a ‘ man in a suit ’ ; but in the story he has been so reconstituted that even his skin , seen only at his face and not much there until he takes off his helmet , is supposed to be toughened like plastic .
20 A very small illumination of about 1450 , and not much more than 1½ inches square , provides an insight into how the body was wrapped .
21 The travelling , the exigencies of the business , the constant promotional activity , prolonged absences , his own mercurial nature , made life difficult for Susy if she stayed at home and not much better if she accompanied James on the circuit , something she never much liked to do .
22 So there was always that tendency in our members minds you know to refer to various districts and er earlier in my submissions I did say that there was a disparity in earnings , especially between the Scotland and England er to , to something like seven percent if not even more than that in certain undertakings .
23 But the Thatcherite counter-revolution is much more all-encompassing : it is an assault on social democracy and all that that term entails , just as much if not more so than on simply ‘ taking out ’ pockets of resistance in specific local areas .
24 Rather than modem Western beliefs being less mystic than those in antiquity , or in underdeveloped communities , they seem equally if not more so than some .
25 These are the Fieldnames but in many spreadsheets the cells in which the first row of data is entered are just as important , if not more so than the names themselves .
26 More than Stephen Duck , if not as strongly as Clare , Leapor shows that poets from the lower orders can handle formal verse with the sophistication of their Augustan exemplars .
27 The inside was cramped but not unwelcomely so and the walls were bright white and well cleaned .
28 tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year
29 Once through the gate to the drive he would walk fast , but not too fast since the power that ruled the night could smell out fear as dogs smell out terror .
30 A big advantage of using a medium-speed film such as APE 100 is that it is fast enough for hand-held camera use but not so fast that on bright days creativity is limited by the necessary use of a small apertures or high shutter speed .
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