Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps our account of the wizardry of energy juggling involved in the tunnelling process makes it not altogether implausible that a doubling of the height to be scaled could immensely increase the difficulty of the transaction . |
| 2 | They are not tremendously significant unless a person s name comes up for a more senior position . |
| 3 | Breeds develop according to local needs and fashions , so that it is not necessarily true that a large , red , short-horned breed in one area has a common ancestry with a similarly large red in another , any more than it is correct to assume a blood link between the black-eared , white-coated White Park and the similarly coloured but polled British White , or between the Gloucester and the Pinzgauer of Austria because their coat patterns are similar . |
| 4 | Not much worse than a tumble in the hunting field . ’ |
| 5 | Though my injury from the officer 's ball was not much worse than a flesh wound , it hurt me and looked bad . |
| 6 | At several points the brook was narrow — not much wider than a rabbit-run . |
| 7 | When she started talking again her voice was not much louder than a whisper . |
| 8 | The match proceeded at a pace not much sharper than a cast of world veterans had produced earlier — including United 's own Bobby Charlton , who popped home a goal to show his heirs how to do it . |
| 9 | I kissed her for the last time as she lay in her hospital bed : the bedclothes were crisp and undisturbed , and she looked very clean , just as she would have wanted to ; and very small , because she was so old , and having started life none too big had ended up , at the age of ninety-one , not much bigger than a child . |
| 10 | This is a very compact plane , not much bigger than a smoothing plane , weighing in at 1.6kg . |
| 11 | It was not much bigger than a good-sized clothes cupboard and there was one small window in the back wall with a sink under the window , but there were no taps over the sink . |
| 12 | Her papoose — not much bigger than a child of ten or twelve , so insubstantial had Sycorax become — was slid into the shaft feet first , so that Sycorax 's head was nearest to the surface of the ground , slightly tilted so that she would face upwards in death , her mouth near the earth and the living who walked on it . |
| 13 | A sphere of hard solid rubber not much bigger than a golf ball and jammed like a cork in the pharynx , effectively blocking the trachea , I scrabbled feverishly at the wet smoothness but there was nothing to get bold of . |
| 14 | Sizes range enormously from a towed compressor to a portable unit not much taller than a litre bottle with the former capable of delivering 3000 psi from a 3 phase supply . |
| 15 | The casual visitor to Dall 's crowded study might miss seeing a hyper-sensitive barometer sitting on the shelf , not much larger than a can of beans . |
| 16 | The Sunday after they came back from the West Indies , he and Sara and his mother — who was living with them now in a room not much larger than a cupboard , although the view , as Simon constantly said , was staggering — went formally to lunch in their old house . |
| 17 | Each drawer , not much larger than a small matchbox , held the body of a wasp which had been through the Factory . |
| 18 | What cost hundreds of thousands of pounds in the nineteen-fifties , and occupied a large building , now only costs a hundred or two , and is not much larger than a typewriter . |
| 19 | Consequently , the CEGB needs to convince the inspector not only that the most likely outcome is a negative net-effective cost , but also that the sensitivity of this result to plausible changes in the CEGB 's forecasts is not so great that a positive ( undesirable ) NEC becomes a likely result . |
| 20 | ‘ If you 'll pardon the correction , not so much as a million , ’ said one of the lady lodgers . |
| 21 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
| 22 | Doctor Tinsley , my old medical man , absolutely forbade me to lift any kind of weight , not so much as a shopping basket . ’ |
| 23 | I have gone through this procedure in some detail , not so much as a practical guide as to how to make the arrangements , but to demonstrate how much practical activity surrounds someone 's death . |
| 24 | For there grow no Trees , no not so much as a Shrub on St. Kilda ’ . |
| 25 | Having seen taxis north of Adrar , and then a couple of days ago , a convoy which had not so much as a compass , I had begun to think the desert not so terrible after all . |
| 26 | It 's quite possible that people shunned us not so much as a mark of outrage at what we had done , but to avoid the frustration of not being able to satisfy their curiosity about what exactly it was . |
| 27 | Charles had done all he could to slow down the retreat , issuing orders that ‘ not so much as a cannonball ’ was to be left behind — an instruction literally , and profitably , followed by the Glengarry clan who , when the carts transporting ammunition up Shap Fell , between Kendal and Penrith , broke down , carried it up in their plaids , at sixpence [ 2. 5p ] per cannonball . |
| 28 | I began to see the city , not so much as a cityscape , but as a still life made up of street lights , buses , cars and shop windows . |
| 29 | I BEGAN TO SEE THE CITY , NOT SO MUCH AS A CITYSCAPE , BUT AS A STILL LIFE MADE UP OF STREET LIGHTS . |
| 30 | The affair started not so much as a head-first plunge as a mesmerised topple . |