Example sentences of "it [be] not at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It were n't at first but it is now |
| 2 | To start with , it 's not at all clear these days what people mean by it , or even whether it exists any longer . |
| 3 | But it 's not at all a bad idea to have a quick guided tour on your first day to get an idea of the layout , saving a lot of time asking the way and taking the wrong turning . |
| 4 | " I 'm sure I could show you how to fold up a map , " said Richard , " it 's not at all difficult once you get the hang of it . " |
| 5 | The ploughs and gritters do their best , of course , but it 's not at all uncommon for the elements to get the better of them for a little while . |
| 6 | necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class . |
| 7 | My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand . |
| 8 | It 's not at all what I thought it would be I just made a bloomer there . |
| 9 | No it 's not at all different is it ? |
| 10 | It 's not at all in the general knowledge of the sixth form science teacher , or certainly not of the O level science teacher . |
| 11 | I am very sure that you will agree with me , if I may borrow a phrase from Joyce , that we all hope that it 's not at all unlikely that George Craig will come again to preach . |
| 12 | It 's not at all . |
| 13 | A successful team may have to go through a number of fights during the course of a day 's competition so it is not at all unusual to see teams short-handed through injury in the final stages . |
| 14 | It is possible for sixth-form students in British secondary schools to take the Advanced- ( ‘ A ’ — ) level examination for school-leavers in such subjects as philosophy or economics or sociology , but it is not at all common , and incoming university students of these subjects usually begin at the beginning , with open minds but with the necessary commitment to learning . |
| 15 | I think it true to say that at the present time it is not at all difficult for academics to appear in print . |
| 16 | It is not at all incongruous that Wilson , who thus insisted on Eliot 's Americanness , should a few years later , in his pioneering classic Axel 's Castle ( 1931 ) , insist on Eliot 's Frenchness , thus giving substance and weight to Untermeyer 's too glib acknowledgement of ‘ the Laforgue mechanism ’ . |
| 17 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |
| 18 | It is not at all obvious whether viewing party leaders as ‘ energetic ’ or ‘ decisive ’ is a perception or an attitude . |
| 19 | But it is not at all clear that high dividends have been damaging , in themselves . |
| 20 | So , it is not at all surprising that the church which launches out in faith will find the power of God at hand . |
| 21 | One other consequence of a fresh gradation of sexual offences might be that they would cease to be gender-specific : there are some strange inconsistencies in the law at present , and it is not at all difficult to draft offences which might be committed by males or females against males or females . |
| 22 | But it is not at all obvious to the audience how the couple have arrived at this happier state of affairs , neither is it entirely clear what Bill Alexander hopes to add by exercising his powers of invention on the play 's Prologue , in which an alcoholic tinker called Christopher Sly is persuaded by a group of gentry to think of himself an aristocrat — the story of the shrew being laid on as a suitable dramatic entertainment . |
| 23 | The selectivity and control of conscious attention remains poorly understood ; very clearly it is not at all coextensive with information processing for much of this is never observed and can not be summoned up for examination . |
| 24 | It is not at all clear whether the failure of a Local Authority to prevent one of its teachers from teaching the acceptability of homosexuality would be construed as promotion by the Local Authority itself . |
| 25 | ‘ It is not at all like her , ’ Mrs Marsden went on in an aggrieved tone . |
| 26 | ‘ It is not at all surprising . |
| 27 | But you will no doubt also understand what I mean when I say it is not at all easy to define just what this quality is . |
| 28 | Now , it is not at all surprising that in the 70s both the deep ecologists and the animal liberationists were slow to see that need . |
| 29 | At the time of writing , it is not at all clear how the resultant tensions will in practice be resolved . |
| 30 | In the first example , however , there was no talk of heirs , and so it is more difficult to establish a trust in favour of somebody because it is not at all clear who its beneficiaries are supposed to be . |