Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , the received opinion seems to be that you should have sex and that it 's not all right not to have it . |
| 2 | I mean , there 's not enough there yet to do any real good with . |
| 3 | I recall a commitment not so long ago to reduce the number or prisoners , yet the Home Secretary told us that there was an unexpected increase of 3,000 in the prison population . |
| 4 | Whether you are starting to decorate a first home , have just moved into a new place or are redecorating an existing room , the problem is often much the same : not so much how to arrange things as how to fill up big blank walls and table or shelf surfaces when you do n't seem to have very much to use and certainly very little to spend . |
| 5 | The problem in cultivating horseradish is not so much how to make it grow well , as to curb its enthusiasm and stop it taking over the garden . |
| 6 | Such events led greens to suspect that the Forest Service and timber industry people had been in cahoots , trying to determine not only how best to make the plan public , but also how best to ensure its demise . |
| 7 | It was easy on Parky , not requiring a step-ladder , and not nearly so far to fall once aboard . |
| 8 | However , Cardiff 's backs were not quick enough collectively to evade the home side 's conscientious cover . |
| 9 | However , Cardiff 's backs were not quick enough collectively to evade the home side 's conscientious cover . |
| 10 | First the polarisation detectors were not far enough apart to rule out the possibility of overlapping single-particle wave functions ; and secondly the pairs of detected photons were not space-like separated — a signal travelling at the speed of light could have passed between the two sets of apparatus . |
| 11 | One man who was n't there long enough to get his head crunched by the rugger roughs was BEZ from The Mondays . |
| 12 | She said she would visit ; she was giving a talk in Newcastle and reckoned it was n't that much further to come . |