Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not altogether satisfactory to call a print by an artist on the same theme as one of his paintings a description . |
| 2 | Already in his fifties , Borrow was not apparently disconcerted to find the coach meeting the train at Plymouth was full but set out accordingly on foot to St. Cleer , where he was offered hospitality by the Taylor family at Penquite Farm . |
| 3 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 4 | Is it not obviously wiser to install a 2.8 litre Ford power unit ( as advertised in LRO ) . |
| 5 | The backwash is reduced in energy by the percolation of water into the shingle , so that the backwash is not necessarily able to return the material carried forward by the swash in spite of the fact that it is combined with the effect of gravity , whereas the swash is acting against gravity . |
| 6 | The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised . |
| 7 | However , it is not enough simple to produce a high quality , premium product — that product also has to be marketed in the right way , with the right packaging , presentation and image to create maximum demand . |
| 8 | The results are sought not so much to enrich the domain of research with fundamentally new findings as to demonstrate the validity of some new form of automatic processing . |
| 9 | Most recent models of 6mm collet routers now produce around twice the power of this model ; this is not so much to speed the work , but more to improve the quality and variety of profiles made by cutters . |
| 10 | In the 1840s the aim would have been not so much to save the debtor 's soul as to save his creditors the expense and boredom of having to sue him . |
| 11 | In legal matters there is usually a certain room for difference of opinion , and even though there be positive authority against your view , the examiner is anxious not so much to test the details of your knowledge as to assess your ability to argue in a lawyer-like way . |
| 12 | All the Cairo world loved a good funeral and the bystanders stopped what they were doing , not so much to let the procession pass but to join in the fun . |
| 13 | Thus one might treat it as an argument that is designed not so much to challenge the meaningfulness of applying identity to objects qua ontological existents " out there " as to expose the difficulties of drawing a clear distinction between the numerical and the qualitative ( or species ) identity in relation to such objects . |
| 14 | Their aim is not so much to alleviate the horrors of war as to make war so horrific that potential aggressors will fear to resort to it at all . |
| 15 | Our objective was different : not so much to plot the difficulties of later life , as to discover how people find a path through them . |
| 16 | Borrowing an idea from the fiercely competitive US market , ITN has made McDonald the sole anchorman but his role seems not so much to read the news as to make it simple for the viewer before the reporter fills the story out . |
| 17 | The purpose was not so much to reproduce the direction of artists as to circumvent the unnatural effect of ‘ music coming out of a hole ’ . |
| 18 | That will be the convenient and sensible course because what such a defendant is seeking is not so much to correct an error in the judge 's decision , for which appeals to this court are designed , but to have for the first time a hearing at which his evidence is considered . |
| 19 | Edward I , considering himself sovereign lord of both countries , appointed his own Warden not so much to keep the peace along a border whose very existence he denied , but for the whole Keeping of Scotland . |
| 20 | It is easy to understand this , but it 's not so easy to evaluate the different elements of theatre training , and see just how they contribute to the making of that elusive thing , ‘ a compleat actor ’ . |
| 21 | It is not so easy to destroy a waterway . |
| 22 | In reality , however , it is not so easy to separate the two . |
| 23 | We can continue to represent the normal case , which corresponds to Bolinger 's referent-qualification , by either of the types of formulae : ( 6 ) Although it is relatively easy to describe verbally the second version where the adjective qualifies the property of the noun but does not in itself qualify the entity of the noun phrase , it is not so easy to suggest a simple but appropriate diagrammatic representation for it ; we may perhaps adopt a formulation as in ( 7 ) where the arrowhead representing qualification passes through the bracket into the property which is the descriptive identification resource of the noun : ( 7 ) [ ( DISTANT ) ( COUSIN ) ] We should still speak of the adjective as attributive , since it remains part of the same entity-identification as the noun ; and it is still perfectly proper to describe it as qualifying the noun syntactically , inasmuch as it marks an extension of what would be achieved by using the noun alone . |
| 24 | It was not so easy to find the cemetery where Mrs Zamzam 's father was buried . |
| 25 | It is not so easy to change the playmates when they are brothers and/or sisters ( siblings ) , and many parents tell me of their concern about the seemingly incessant feuding that goes on among brothers and sisters . |
| 26 | Some of the things are skill areas and it 's not so easy to measure the skill area sometimes How are we doing so far ? |
| 27 | You see , if you had killed one you were not so likely to betray the others . |
| 28 | It may be difficult to persuade a television assembly worker whose plant in the United States has closed and relocated to Mexico that the maquila industry creates jobs in the United States , but it is not so difficult to persuade a worker who makes television components in a US factory that supplies an assembly plant in Mexico , that the maquila industry protects US jobs . |
| 29 | Once the motivation to stop arises , it is not so difficult to kick the habit . |
| 30 | It is perhaps not so difficult to accept the overthrow of an individual — a Honecker or a Jakes : that been done before . |