Example sentences of "not [adv] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She is not big headed at all , ’ he says .
2 you 're right about that as well , not much used at all .
3 ‘ No , she 's not long gone at all … .
4 The view that religion is a response to revealed truth , and the implications of this with regard to how we can be expected to find out about it , are not normally considered at all .
5 The record search process is not usually lengthened at all , so only the increased data transfer time needs to be considered .
6 In the first phrase , by contrast , the general target area of hock is not further restricted at all by the use of the adjective German , since all hock is German , by the very definition of hock .
7 Indeed there is , if anything , a tendency for the final events to be revealed early in the investigation while the factors which led to them remain obscure until a much later stage , and some do not ever emerge at all .
8 Breeding was proved on a total of 36 waters in the period , most of which may be regularly occupied , although the records show annual fluctuations and breeding is not always proved at all known breeding sites each year .
9 ‘ Oh I can not possibly say at this point .
10 As we shall see , judicial intervention was not noticeably restrained at this time in other political cockpits .
11 In sum , alternative policies for sterling were not carefully considered at that time , not because they were unrealistic but because they were politically uncongenial and ran counter to powerful vested interests [ Bauer and Walters , 1975 ] .
12 They were not far removed at any time from the poverty line , and more frequently below it than above it .
13 C — Closed : The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator .
14 C — Closed The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator .
15 C — Closed — The contents of the SPR have now been acted upon and the problem has either been fixed , or cleared for some other reason , for example the problem did not really exist at all , or there was a misunderstanding on the part of the originator .
16 She had once explained that slaughtering animals secretly and trading on the black market was simply bending the law a little and not really stealing at all , but real thieves were as bad as liars .
17 Some of these fixed stars do , in fact , appear to change very slightly their positions relative to each other as the earth orbits around the sun : they are not really fixed at all !
18 I 'm not really living at all .
19 Not really sleeping at all .
20 The pattern of attacks has not really changed at all ; the Iraqis go for the Iranian oil tankers on the shuttle from Kharg Island to Larak Island , and the Iranians then retaliate with a burst of rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire against almost any vessel unaccompanied by a warship .
21 It is fighters which save them therefore the message is that they 're not really rescued at all because the world is in the same situation as the island .
22 ’ I 'm not strongly encouraged at all .
23 But the argument would not even stop at that point .
24 Letters like these are worthy of recording , especially when the writer from Camberley finished with a p.s. that concludes ‘ As a satisfied customer , needless to say I have not even looked at any other . ’
25 Ribose ring puckers are not well defined at this resolution , and were not specifically restrained during refinement , but deviate little from their original C2'- endo conformation in the initial model .
26 Clegg has examined the reasons for this in the early 1930s and suggested that employers were not well organized at this time and that there were fewer jobs being lost in the early 1930s than in the early 1920s .
27 Indeed , it may seem almost so obvious that the alternative interpretation is not consciously perceived at all .
28 In other words , according to the philosophy of the head teacher , the teachers are not there to teach at all , but merely to supervise the children as they try to learn by themselves .
29 There were archers with them , but not a great company , and some three-score men-at-arms , all mounted ; and a knot of bright devices he could not quite read at that distance , though their colours did almost as well .
30 Catalytic processes were not fully understood at that time and it was over forty years before Messel in England and Winkler in Germany perfected manufacturing techniques .
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