Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | I suppose whatever happened it 's not right Far too these ones are alright . |
2 | Not right now though . |
3 | They were not alive , but they were not dead enough either . |
4 | Under the Tories part-time and temporary working all too often , not all too often , always , ha means low pay , poorer working conditions and few of the benefits enjoyed by full-time workers . |
5 | To the question ‘ How has it done ? ‘ , the answer must be , ‘ Not all that badly ’ . |
6 | well once in a blue moon do we have a late night ? , not all that late at that |
7 | Perhaps that is why I 'm not all that much attached to being part of a permanent company for too long — I get bored by being around in one place for too long . |
8 | We are born with all the potentiality for intelligence we are ever going to have , and there is not all that much we can do except to achieve as much of that potential as the world and its intelligence experts will permit us . |
9 | It was not all that long ago that you could see young men discreetly selling Bibles on the streets and they would melt away when the KGB , the enforcers of the atheist state , appeared . |
10 | Not all that long ago the term ‘ independent sector ’ described a broad but distinct territory of critical practice in film and video . |
11 | I mean , it 's not all that long since they threw out the Tsar , is it . |
12 | And er , it 's not one that 's er that 's currently practised , but it 's not all that long ago , in in folk memory that that that women in their particularly women who had practices and rituals were seen as witches . |
13 | Oh it 's not all that long ago , duck . |
14 | Not all that long ago , either ; I can remember seeing a man sweeping the paths in the park in Gallanach with a broom like that , when I was older than either of you are now . ’ |
15 | Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that . |
16 | I understand she was found not all that far from her parents ' house ? |
17 | ‘ Tales about married men , some of them not all that far away from here either . ’ |
18 | Although Valerie had not been present for any of the discussion among governors and teachers on the appointing committee ? her remarks were not all that far removed from what had transpired . |
19 | If anything happens to me mother — and it 's not all that far off really — I 'm expected to pick meself up , go back out there and start again . |
20 | I ‘ m not all that far behind them , in the end . |
21 | As it was , the Pistols were not together long enough , nor did they sell sufficient records , to make the profits for Virgin which Branson had always anticipated . |
22 | Even I B M have stated that O S Four Hundred on the A S Four Hundred will be Posix compliant erm oh certainly within the next twelve months if not somewhat earlier now . |
23 | Yet they enjoy none of the advantages of debentureholders ; they receive a return on their money only if profits are earned ( and not necessarily even then ) , they rank after creditors on a winding-up and they have less effective remedies against the company . |
24 | The fundamental weakness in Oswine 's position was not necessarily so much the challenge from Swaefheard as the lack of support within the kingdom for a prince of Eormenred 's line . |
25 | Now Hungarian poetry may begin to change towards a poetry which is more autonomous , more self-subsistent with its own themes and materials , not necessarily so directly structured by our political situation . |
26 | The model fits variations in US fertility trends reasonably well , although not necessarily much better than conventional economic variables ( D. P. Smith 1981 ) . |
27 | Under a differentiated strategy , one is not necessarily under less persistent pressure to improve than one is under a cost-leadership strategy . |
28 | In politics the Conservatives were in power virtually throughout , though not necessarily always directly in office . |
29 | These two directions or shades of opinion are not necessarily as starkly polarised as may appear . |
30 | The second is not necessarily quite so easy . |