Example sentences of "[coord] [not/n't] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after all that trouble , its flesh is oily and not particularly good to eat . |
| 2 | But it is also possible and not less agreeable to regard it as the gradual assumption by all the nations concerned of that larger sovereignty which can alone protect their diverse and distinctive customs and characteristics and their national traditions . ’ |
| 3 | It 's an expensive wood and not that easy to work , but the beautiful flaming and the rich pale brown colour makes it worth the trouble . |
| 4 | IT HAD long been my ambition to learn to fly , but I had discounted it as being too expensive and not very easy to start . |
| 5 | They used to These they used to be a round used to be round you know and not very used to hit them as you hit them with a stick you see , they used to wheel wheel round and round . |
| 6 | In the UK this will be at about 67° to the horizontal , but it is not critical , as the maximum is quite broad and not very sensitive to angle . |
| 7 | The standard manual steering is heavy , low geared and not too keen to turn in . |
| 8 | It looked bulky , but was well designed , and not too awkward to wear . |
| 9 | Folded up , the 750 was only 7in deep , 30in high and 29in long — compact enough to lean against a wall while jobs were in progress , and not too heavy to hang at about shoulder height when stored away . |
| 10 | In fact the props of the speech are important and not too difficult to use to help your presentation . |
| 11 | She felt herself to be still very slightly dazed , disorientated enough to give the impression that she was a disinterested observer of the scene and not quite able to realise that these things were in fact happening to her . |
| 12 | The reply was long and not always easy to understand . |
| 13 | Racism pervades the thought of our period to an extent hard to appreciate today , and not always easy to understand . |
| 14 | There were so many children that each one of the mothers and nursemaids thought that he must belong to somebody else , but as he was about the same size as the children and not much different to look at , he was able to make friends with some of them . |
| 15 | Type and longevity are much harder , but not altogether impossible to cost . |
| 16 | Then the young man said , ‘ It depends what you mean by bereavements ’ , and went on to describe his conflict about a woman with whom he was in love but not yet ready to marry . |
| 17 | That is , she is exempt from supervision but not wholly free to choose her own activities . |
| 18 | ‘ I am a proud man , Li Shai Tung , but not too proud to admit it when I have been wrong- and I was wrong about the threat from the Ping Tiao . |
| 19 | He added , cynically , that if Labour came in ‘ it would be too weak to do much harm , but not too weak to get discredited ’ . |
| 20 | Suddenly , Constance realised that she actually was very tired — but not too tired to notice with pleasure the warm wood panelling , the Turkey-red stair carpet and the clean smell of polish which all added up to an atmosphere of richness and opulence quite foreign to her mother 's sparse house in Northumberland . |
| 21 | When the girls eventually reached home Major and Mrs Burrows were already in bed , but not too tired to hear the tremendous news . |
| 22 | Too late for self-respect , but not too late to exact a little vengeance . |
| 23 | Usually they are fat , but not too fat to tie children 's shoes … |
| 24 | The selector switch is a three-way Strat-type , perhaps slower to operate than a toggle-switch , but not too hard to reach in its position beneath the first volume knob . |
| 25 | It was easy to say , but not so easy to do . |
| 26 | This would be easy enough to notice but not so easy to interpret . |
| 27 | It is quite happy to hand the promises out , but not so happy to tell us how they will be financed . |
| 28 | It would be trite , but not entirely inaccurate to say that they were , respectively , the good sister and the bad sister . |
| 29 | It is enough for me to say that , on the basis of those two cases , the arguments of the two councils in the Stoke-on-Trent case struck your Lordships as being very powerful , but not sufficiently powerful to persuade your Lordships ' House that it need not refer the matter to the European Court of Justice under article 177 . |
| 30 | Leslie found in 1958 that the Government papers and radio were greatly distrusted : newspapers which were anti-government were avidly sought after but not always easy to obtain . |