Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , because of their desire to promote the idea of history as a scientific discipline , the Annales school have not been equally well disposed to all aspects of the past . |
| 2 | The TRACE II designers acknowledge that the decision mechanisms have not been fully enough elaborated . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the broad unity and homogeneity of the Bible itself had not been really seriously challenged in earlier centuries , whereas it could now appear to be falling apart under the impact of the new critical approaches of the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Also , previous versions of OS/2 have not been that well received either by the press of users — it was , to say the least , memory and disk hungry , and came in a number of flavours so that it was difficult to know quite which one you needed . |
| 5 | But in any case the concept of supranational defence integration had not been as carefully considered and researched , and its potential participants fully persuaded of its value , in advance as had been the case with the ECSC . |
| 6 | Although OS/2 can run DOS ( and in turn DOS applications ) it has not been as widely accepted in Europe as it has in America . |
| 7 | He said 3i had always taken a long-term view and had not been as badly hit by the recession as the banks had because it had been cautious . |
| 8 | I know that some folk have had cases from America which have not been too well done , and , in fact , felt that they were over-embalmed and no make-up . |
| 9 | But a comparison with science departments at other universities — such as the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge — shows that Imperial College has not been too badly treated down the years . |
| 10 | Fortunately the boy had not been too badly hurt but he did require minor surgery in addition to the treatment of several cuts and bruises . |
| 11 | But the rate of loss of forest threatens to outstrip any of this basic work , and practical plans are hampered by the fact that until recently the birds have simply not been very well studied : not much is known about them . |
| 12 | One of the unanswered questions is why , given its declared success , it has not been more widely adopted by local authorities ? |
| 13 | Why has Class D not been more widely used ? |
| 14 | And yet , although Lloyd George was the author of the Free City proposals , they were approved by the Americans and the French , and had the Poles not been so heavily engaged against the Soviets by this time , they might still have attempted to seize Danzig by force — there was certainly little the Germans could have done to prevent such a move . |
| 15 | Even had you not been so well acquainted with the family , I dare say . |
| 16 | Though there has been a clear public responsibility for the long-term residents of mental hospitals , public responsibility for those discharged has not been so well established . |
| 17 | But there were also features of the area itself which exacerbated Anglo-French friction and which have not been so closely studied . |
| 18 | Black guillemots ( tysties ) have not been so badly affected , perhaps because they are not so dependent on the pelagic fish such as sand-eels and young gadoids ( whitefish ) but catch more bottom-living fish such butterfish and rockling . |
| 19 | It would have been difficult to estimate the extent of this use of cassettes even if the events had not been so emotionally charged . |
| 20 | Four knights at least , all Grey 's men ; and a rugged , thickset figure in half-armour , whose seat in the saddle was familiar , even if the black horse under him had not been so signally ornamented with his blazon . |
| 21 | There had not been such severe storms in southern England for hundreds of years , and the structure of woodlands had not been so regularly modified by gales as in the more stormy north of Britain . |
| 22 | It is probably the case that women have not been so seriously affected by long-term unemployment as have men in comparable occupations . |
| 23 | if common sense had not been so uniquely transformed , then there would be little reason to formulate this new , specific concept of social representation . |
| 24 | The role of specific acetyltransferase activity in Crohn 's disease patients has not been so far studied , and deserves investigation . |
| 25 | A comprehensive evaluation of the motility at different levels of the gastrointestinal tract in diabetic patients , however , has not been so far reported . |
| 26 | But I am no such creature , the king thought , burning in his own fury and grief , I can not be thus constantly outdone and bear no grudge . |
| 27 | Nowadays botanists divide the cycad-like plants into two major groups which may not be particularly closely related : the Cycadales , which include the living species , and the Bennettitales , an important Mesozoic group of plants which have smaller fructifications scattered among the bases of the leaves . |
| 28 | Preclinical staff usually have busy schedules and may not be particularly well oriented to clinical matters . |
| 29 | ‘ Had Inverclyde had a policy of installing smoke detectors , and had this house been fitted with them , you and I would not be here today talking about this . ’ |
| 30 | We may not be here tomorrow screamed the rock-fuck bands . |