Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So it was not altogether true that Cuchulain did not kill messengers , ’ a monk dutifully recorded . |
| 2 | Parents ' reports of birth weight and gestational age are sufficiently accurate for analysis and not necessarily worse than hospital case notes ; lack of accuracy would decrease rather than increase the strength of the observed associations . |
| 3 | Hence shareholding and membership are not necessarily co-terminous if share warrants are issued . |
| 4 | It is not perhaps surprising that concern over the handling of agricultural matters has been expressed from a number of parks including Exmoor and the North York Moors where pressures for reclamation have been , and perhaps still are , considerable . |
| 5 | In the past , ‘ machinery was not highly automated and manpower was important ’ . |
| 6 | Quite a number of experiments leading to such identification have been with small aspect ratio Bénard convection ( Sections 22.1 , 22.4 ) [ 87 , 181 , 246 ] ; small in this context means not much greater than unity . |
| 7 | VSAT can use satellite antennae not much bigger than TV dishes and just as easy to install . |
| 8 | ‘ Why are Catholic churches here not so good as Church of Ireland ones ? ’ the man asked me . |
| 9 | Er she had but not so much as father . |
| 10 | The answer is that it does , and that the justifications for doing so have been set out above — not so much because rape is a serious offence , but rather because ascertainment of the facts is so easy that there should be little substantive unfairness to defendants . |
| 11 | Not so violent as war surely ? |
| 12 | Blow , blow thou Winter wynd , thou wert not so unkind as man 's ingratitude ! |
| 13 | It 's not so rough as some things , it 's not so rough as rugby but perhaps you do n't mind being a bit rough do you ? |
| 14 | I understand the hon. Gentleman 's frustration , but it is not so easy as Opposition Members keep asserting . |
| 15 | Traditional Keynesian analysis required government to intervene in the economy to affect the total level of demand for goods and services , and to ensure that this level was high enough to be consistent with full employment and not so high that inflation was generated or a balance of payments crisis precipitated . |
| 16 | Discussions do take place within this Government — we are not so Stalinist as Labour 's national executive committee in these matters . |
| 17 | Methods however are not so important as outcome . |
| 18 | It should be damp enough to hold together when squeezed in the hand , but not so wet that water still runs out through the fingers . |
| 19 | His speeds are not so driven as Rattle 's , the energy level is lower ; but there is a clearer sense of the cunning in the music . |
| 20 | Not only that but motivation can be expressed in terms of self-interest , however that may be perceived , and in terms of serving organisational interests . |
| 21 | Not only that but part of his very raison d'être , like that of his Creator , is to work . |
| 22 | And part of the demand for a centralized curriculum , dictated from above , has stemmed from the confused notion that such a curriculum would be not only vocational and future-directed , but strict , narrow , and exact , containing within itself its own criteria of rightness and wrongness . |
| 23 | Perhaps for historical reasons , or because it was necessary to keep the brain tidy when so many powerful thoughts were in their infancy , a separation was necessary ; but now the schism is not only sad but philistine , anachronistic and shameful . |
| 24 | Standing on top of the Mexican pavilion , still an empty shell with a few plants sprinkled over the roof and a 1,500-year-old cactus guarding the entrance , he said : ‘ I am not only sure that Expo will be ready on the day . |
| 25 | It affected not only rural or seaside communities ( some of which were now facing a crisis with the growing attractiveness of continental holidays and the inroads made by car and caravan into the traditional domain of the seaside landlady ) , but even industrial areas , where such attractions as Big Pit at Blaenavon in South Wales paid testimony to the passing of the age of coal . |
| 26 | Exotic models are not only Greek and Roman , but Moorish , Egyptian , Hindoo , and ‘ Antideluvian ’ . |
| 27 | Lord Gardiner said that they were secret , illegal , not morally justifiable and alien to the traditions of what he believed still to be the greatest democracy in the world . |
| 28 | The conduct element is causing ‘ actual bodily harm ’ , which has been given the wide definition of ‘ any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim ’ so long as it is not merely transient or trifling' . |
| 29 | If accompanied by an intention to cause death it 's not just criminal but murder . ’ |
| 30 | ( An existing Directive already bans television advertising , and a proposal supported by the UK Government and currently in course of approval will ban not just advertising but production and marketing of oral moist snuff — Skoal Bandits and the like . ) |