Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Successful selling to Japan requires patience and a sensitivity to customs and business practices not altogether appreciated by Westerners . |
| 2 | Bailey shrugged , not altogether convinced by Kolchinsky 's outburst . |
| 3 | We shall see that employers are key actors within industrial relations and that they possess a considerable margin for defining their own policies which are not wholly determined in response to the actions of unions , or to economic and political pressures . |
| 4 | It would be natural to assume that this attempt to create a rift between Offa and the papacy occurred before the visit of the legates in 786 and that the visit was part of a process of reconciliation , but this is not wholly justified for Hadrian 's letter could date to the late rather than the mid-780s , and reflect hostility to one or more of a number of Offa 's actions . |
| 5 | Symptoms were compared with those before treatment and were scored as follows : ( 0 ) no symptoms ; ( 1 ) major symptoms cured , patient pleased with result of treatment ; ( 2 ) some improvement , patient not wholly satisfied with result of treatment ; ( 3 ) no change in symptoms . |
| 6 | Despite its easy flow I was nevertheless not wholly convinced by No. 4 . |
| 7 | In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law . |
| 8 | Although the most commonly used traffic-calming measures , road humps , are governed by statute and are subject to clear regulations , other techniques such as chicanes , road narowing , different road surfaces , shared road surfaces , rumble strips and gateways are not properly covered by legislation . |
| 9 | Limbs were often not properly joined with bodies and the long necks and rigidity of attitudes recall the shapes of the clay idols of the period . |
| 10 | Keyword DEVICE not properly defined in Configuration File |
| 11 | Keyword DIRECTORY not properly defined in Configuration File |
| 12 | Keyword UIC not properly defined in configuration file |
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| 16 | Further , KPMG alleges in the letter that the control mechanisms that were in place were not properly operated by management , and KPMG 's recommendations for them to be strengthened were accepted but not fully implemented . |
| 17 | The maternity grant and the death grant , two benefits initiated in the Beveridge era but not properly updated in line with inflation , were abolished , to be replaced by means test-related benefits for the very poor . |
| 18 | It is not widely grown in Britain , as it requires strong land and considerably higher temperatures than other cereals . |
| 19 | Secondly , the techniques , although not widely developed to date , may culminate in the creation of more productive plant and animal crops that could help alleviate food scarcity problems in developing countries by increasing the viability of traditionally based agroecosystems , thus obviating the need for the cultivation of new lands . |
| 20 | The drop in salary for part time work is perfectly logical and acceptable , though not widely appreciated by colleagues . |
| 21 | This provision is not widely known to farmers , largely because the Departments have never taken sufficient trouble to spell it out . |
| 22 | This was not widely known among Anglicans . |
| 23 | It noted : ‘ Cricket is not widely known in France , ’ and talked of ‘ this sport which appears monotonous and without colour to the uninitiated ’ . |
| 24 | Her greater sympathy for the Atlantic connection over the European one is not widely shared by colleagues . |
| 25 | He ca n't say for sure , but he thinks that one of the fillings looks like Continental work , using a technique that 's not widely practised in Britain . |
| 26 | This did not evoke much response from the audience , because The Times was not widely read by university students . |
| 27 | It is undoubtedly true that Hansard and particularly records of Committee debates are not widely held by libraries outside London and that the lack of satisfactory indexing of Committee stages makes it difficult to trace the passage of a clause after it is redrafted or renumbered . |
| 28 | However , assembly is not widely used at present and as more companies develop RISCs it is likely that this architecture will dominate the CISC design in the future . |
| 29 | It is not widely used for research outside the military because of the cost of high fidelity simulator time . |
| 30 | This system was not widely used in Gloucestershire . |