Example sentences of "not [adv] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not altogether her fault . |
| 2 | I 'm sorry for the Chief Accountant the job seems quite beyond him , but it 's not altogether his fault . |
| 3 | Likewise in the case of Lewis 's Eve : if she is ransomed by Ransom 's struggle with the Un-Man in the underworld , a sort of Harrowing of Hell sequence , how can she be said to have resisted the temptation on her own ; and if she has not really resisted through her own strength — if she is to be rewarded with immortality and felicity for something she has not done herself — where is the justice in the punishment , on another planet , of Eve and her descendants , for something which again was not wholly her responsibility ? |
| 4 | His response surprised me , but not apparently his teacher . |
| 5 | Charged at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court in January 1989 with dishonestly inducing Harrods to forego payment , she heard the magistrate Eric Crowther say it was not entirely her fault . |
| 6 | This is not entirely their fault . |
| 7 | The fact that Mr Ridley looked awful on television is not entirely his fault . |
| 8 | But this was not entirely his fault . |
| 9 | The ability to enjoy , create and teach literature does not at all imply an equal ability to organize recorded knowledge for retrieval , though it is not necessarily its opposite . |
| 10 | The young man 's disillusionment when it comes confirms , not only the observer 's prediction , but the superiority of his evaluation over the young man 's , although not necessarily its correctness . |
| 11 | The Toraja children refer to all men as " Father " and all women as " Mother " — and their blood parents are not necessarily their favourites . |
| 12 | We are represented by men hungry for high political office who will therefore not rock the party boat ; men whose loyalty is to their political careers , not necessarily their constituents ; men who know nothing of rural life , for why should they , nurtured as they were in towns or suburbs ? |
| 13 | Now there are terms [ Baldwin continued ] that your leader would have to accept , and when sent for by the King would have to say : ‘ Sire , these names are not necessarily my choice , but they have the support of Lord Rothermere . ’ |
| 14 | Most of the girls in my year , though not necessarily my friends , were leaving school at the end of the term . |
| 15 | Your gain is not necessarily my loss . |
| 16 | Malcolm , I know it 's not necessarily your responsibility , but any latest news on a new ground for Witney Town ? |
| 17 | Do n't ask why a debt has n't been paid because you 'll get what you asked for … an excuse and not necessarily your money . |
| 18 | Not so her mother and father . |
| 19 | Their power is stinted , but not so their will ; |
| 20 | Not so our participants who treat the inability of someone to remember their name as an act of personal contempt . |
| 21 | But not so my Scoutmaster . |
| 22 | Not so my experience when I was supposedly marooned on a high rock 500 yards from the shore . |
| 23 | Not so my students however , for whom even simple things can cause immediate confusion . |
| 24 | Words failed me at this last find … but not so my companions ! |
| 25 | Not so his companion , David Mellor . |
| 26 | These graduates have already supplied not only their name and address but also names of colleagues , which are now held on database . |
| 27 | Here we have a hint that what divides the theorists is not only their answers but the time-frame of their questions . |
| 28 | Yet there is much that these two great historians have in common , and not only their sense of foreboding , their anxiety about the future , and a vision of past greatness ; they share , above all , a need to give the Christianity of their compatriots , Franks or English , roots in the Roman past . |
| 29 | I should like hon. Members to give TECs not only their support but the time to develop their approach locally to see whether they can meet the high expectations that understandably now exist . |
| 30 | They seem to be losing not only their lungs but their legs . |