Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut them when they are about half open , but not right down to the ground ; be sure to leave at least two sets of leaves on the stem . |
| 2 | He moved aside but not right out of the narrow passageway and she was forced to squeeze past him . |
| 3 | I 'm not necessarily out of the Commonwealth Games . |
| 4 | ‘ It is unusual , yes , but not so out of the common . |
| 5 | He 's not only up against the ghost of Simon Ellis , he 's paying this other man 's bill . |
| 6 | The regime had been under strain for some time , not only up in the Syrian heartland but also in far-away Khorasan in northeastern Persia . |
| 7 | Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage . |
| 8 | What is required , Locke argues , is that the law of nature be embodied in a set of known and established laws that there be an ind in short that it 's not just up to the individual to state what the law of nature is in any particular case , you know , you 've got a set of known and established laws , you know , which do that . |
| 9 | Not just round on the floor you know will you please ? |
| 10 | SPARKS WILL be flying at Embsay this Saturday … and not just out of the chimney of their band of battling Yorkshire tank engines . |
| 11 | It 's not just down to the inmates |
| 12 | It suppresses the blood-sugar level — not just back to the level before the meal , but even lower than the pre-meal level . |
| 13 | If they are extensively sheared or cold-worked , however , there is some improvement in shear strength , though not nearly up to the theoretical value . |
| 14 | Once the lessons began I realized that I was not nearly up to the standard of the others . |
| 15 | Because i at the top it 's not straight up to the |
| 16 | Mr Jones , my old PE teacher , had advised me to join an athletics club , so I went to West London Stadium , not far up from the old White City and adjacent to Wormwood Scrubs Prison . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not far back to the town ! ’ |
| 18 | As Allen turned to clamber down he spotted through a gap in the leaves a thin spiral of smoke not far off to the east . |
| 19 | It was when the pale flood of light returned that Stephen saw the man — He was quite a long way off , not far in from the road , and he was standing quite still as if waiting for someone or watching . |
| 20 | ‘ We can not back down from the decision , which we believe is rightful and just . ’ |
| 21 | The dog sees you as challenging its perceived dominance in the family arena , and may well turn on you when threatened , in the same way that it would a rival pack member which does not back down in the wild . |
| 22 | Top marks to Fender for continuing to care for us , the poverty-stricken masses , but while the Squier Hank was a nice enough guitar , we felt that the pickups and hardware were not really up to the standard of an early-to-mid '80s Squier or Tokai . |
| 23 | I 'm not really in to the weather if the truth be known . |
| 24 | And part of the reason why we 're not really out of the recession , is that people are not willing to commit themselves to any further expenditure because they 're not quite sure in six months or twelve months time , as to whether they 're going to have anything in the way of a job . |
| 25 | They were not really out of the town . |
| 26 | ‘ He is the son of the Khedive 's third wife , so not high up in the stakes . |
| 27 | The Gloucester ski racing team are out on the slopes training all winter … except this time we 're not high up in the Alps but right here in England in Telford in shropshire … this is artificial snow … its the only slope of its kind in the country … and to save money and time our young racers are coming here to train … |
| 28 | The book was well received by the Lancet and British Medical Journal , but savagely attacked by an anonymous reviewer in the Medical Times and Gazette of 1859 , who dismissed it , in a ridiculous review for which the most likely reason was personal animosity or jealousy , as ‘ a book which is not wanted [ and ] is not even up to the mark of the existing vade-mecums . |
| 29 | Biff himself was n't basic ; never had been , not even down in the depth of ignorance that had been the undercity of Trazior . |
| 30 | Breakfast was not yet over at the curator 's house when Orrie came to announce that the police were in occupation , and beginning to stake out the ground . |