Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a senior transport pilot of the Russian Air Force at the age of 28 , ‘ Deemy ’ was not altogether at home in the eastern regions of Siberia . |
| 2 | Elizabeth was not altogether in favour of the last choice but as Lamb was now officially betrothed to Martha , she had given in . |
| 3 | Benson 's Diary , 25 May 1925 : ‘ I 'm not wholly at ease with Michael . |
| 4 | The only person not wholly in sympathy with this plan was the bartender who complained that I was supposed to be off duty and that the passengers should come to the bar to buy the drinks themselves ; I was syphoning off his tips . |
| 5 | However , sex differences in achievement are not uniformly in favour of girls across all subjects : while girls regularly achieve higher numbers of passes in some subjects , boys consistently achieve higher numbers in others . |
| 6 | First he shows how , in the successive volumes compiled under the generic title of ‘ Primer ’ , composers would have found whole psalms located in contexts able to suggest the composition of the psalm-motet not chronologically in succession to , but simultaneously with , the votive antiphon . |
| 7 | By contrast , Oistrakh on Le Chant du Monde , though not entirely at home in the Gallic idiom , is far more subtle in inflexion and seems less determined to impress . |
| 8 | Though she was not entirely at ease with Mrs Frere her heart flooded with sympathy for her loss . |
| 9 | That was not entirely for lack of trying . |
| 10 | The EEC negotiations were not entirely without impact on British politics . |
| 11 | This geological feature is almost unique to the Falkland Islands , and even geologists arc not entirely in agreement about how they were formed . |
| 12 | Not entirely in line with the Waldegrave 's White Paper , the DTI has announced a shift towards exploiting existing technologies more fully at the expense of supporting new technologies . |
| 13 | The skilled man was one who had acquired ‘ a general use of the tools employed in his trade ’ ( even though this was not necessarily of use to his employer ) which would give him ‘ adaptability ’ . |
| 14 | Moreover , part of a statute incorporated by reference will be construed in accordance with the ordinary canons of construction as applied to the lease , not necessarily in accordance with the way the statute itself is construed ( ibid ) . |
| 15 | This difficulty does not arise if one assumes that both processes co-exist from the beginning of life , that they both have adaptive functions , and they are not necessarily in conflict with one another — even though they may on occasion be . |
| 16 | If the question whether the subject matter is capable of passing by way of donatio mortis causa is put on one side , the three general requirements for such a gift may be stated very much as they are stated in contemplation , although not necessarily in expectation of impending death . |
| 17 | I 'm not necessarily in agreement with their conclusions . |
| 18 | I 'm not necessarily in connection with anything I might it 's it 's very common practice in my experience which seems to me very reasonable . |
| 19 | Too crowded — not enough in depth on debt |
| 20 | ‘ You had no right to do that , ’ Maggie whispered , still not enough in control of herself to be outraged . |
| 21 | The board processes themselves often do not work , so one often hears the remark : the company policy is X , but of course I am not personally in support of this , I believe we should be doing Y. Since industrial success depends totally on getting the concentration of effort of widely differing groups of people with different skills to be applied at optimum effect to the achievement of the common goal , it is not difficult to see why such disparate messages strike at one 's heart and give one a more than usual dose of despair . |
| 22 | Duchamp-Villon , although at that time not personally in touch with the group , was on the committee of the Salon d'Automne of 1911 and together with La Fresnaye , Desvallières and one or two others , was largely responsible for persuading the hostile jury to include the paintings submitted by the Cubists . |
| 23 | They are not much to look at but they may contain oil , which is why the Philippines keeps a garrison there . |
| 24 | It was a beginning , but 1815 was reached with not much to acclaim in day-school provision for working-class children and with no national policy as yet in prospect . |
| 25 | Such robustness is salutary and not much in evidence in the sickening programmes monopolising the air at the moment : Election Call , Your Election Voice , Election Platform , Campaign Report and the rest . |
| 26 | the philosophy and objectives of the 1981 Education Act , which went some way to implementing the Warnock recommendations , are not much in evidence in the latest legislation . |
| 27 | If , then , it is the case that the Parliament of the United Kingdom is legislatively omnicompetent , it is not so by reason of logical necessity but by reason of authority and we must next examine sources of such authority . |
| 28 | Second , the connection between the national curriculum and assessment at Key Stages Two and Three ought to show an understandable link not only with work at Key Stage Four but also with the examinations and qualifications which are either directly relevant to the final stage of compulsory schooling or into which work at that level immediately leads . |
| 29 | There are also in many languages forms reserved for authorized recipients , including restrictions on most titles of address ( Your Honour , Mr President , etc. ) ; in Tunica there were pronouns that differed not only with sex of referent , but also with the sex of the addressee , so that there were , for example , two words for " they " , depending on whether one was speaking to a man or a woman ( Haas , ibid . ) . |
| 30 | In 1987 he returned to the UK not only with fluency in Japanese but also with a Japanese wife , Nako . |