Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of course , these are not necessarily easier to interpret — techniques such as conditional sampling ( Section 19.6 ) may again be invoked — but they can illuminate different aspects . |
| 32 | The backwash is reduced in energy by the percolation of water into the shingle , so that the backwash is not necessarily able to return the material carried forward by the swash in spite of the fact that it is combined with the effect of gravity , whereas the swash is acting against gravity . |
| 33 | It is a view held not only by expert bodies and individuals but also by a substantial proportion of the general public who are not necessarily able to explain why and how this process takes place . |
| 34 | The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised . |
| 35 | Uncertain and variable wages are a great problem for the people who receive them ; it is not necessarily desirable to appear to legitimise such methods of payment . |
| 36 | However , it is not enough simple to produce a high quality , premium product — that product also has to be marketed in the right way , with the right packaging , presentation and image to create maximum demand . |
| 37 | First , in those days their things were all banned , and whoever had any was not especially keen to draw attention to the fact . |
| 38 | The volumes are not especially easy to use , however , and more detailed and accessible information is contained in two works published in 1950 and 1967 by the Society of Antiquaries of London : A Catalogue of English Medieval Rolls of Arms by Sir Anthony Wagner , and Rolls of Arms — Henry III edited by T.D . |
| 39 | They would probably not bring very much bear meat at all , because Lugh was not especially partial to bear meat , but it would have looked odd to say this . |
| 40 | To this extent it is not especially helpful to see pubs as a category of buildings , but rather to keep a clear distinction in mind between interior and exterior . |
| 41 | But it is also possible and not less agreeable to regard it as the gradual assumption by all the nations concerned of that larger sovereignty which can alone protect their diverse and distinctive customs and characteristics and their national traditions . ’ |
| 42 | It is becoming more , not less important to provide adequate teaching in schools on personal relationships and on how people should treat one another that goes far beyond straightforward lessons on sex education — important though this is . |
| 43 | At high income levels , the ability to buy child care may make women more , not less likely to have more children as their income rises still further ( Ermisch 1988 ) . |
| 44 | It will be comforting to me at any rate personally to know that even so eminent a , a , er an ornament of the present administration as my Noble Friends also found these th th this material a matter for stumbling and was not perhaps inclined to give it a crown of lucidity . |
| 45 | My weight is down to 8st 10lb and my appetite is not much easier to control . ’ |
| 46 | Moaners get attention but they 're not much fun to have around ! |
| 47 | Breaking up the surface is well worth avoiding , firstly to save it and give yourself another heavenly run tomorrow , and secondly because when your edges start to catch it 's not much fun to ski and can be dangerous . |
| 48 | There were so many children that each one of the mothers and nursemaids thought that he must belong to somebody else , but as he was about the same size as the children and not much different to look at , he was able to make friends with some of them . |
| 49 | Her grasp of English was obviously limited , and she was not much inclined to stretch it further . |
| 50 | And , considering the alternatives , I 'm not much inclined to blame her . " |
| 51 | Nationally the major figures in educational policy were not much inclined to innovate . |
| 52 | Now I 'm not so stupid to believe that we 'll always necessarily agree on how those objectives should be met . |
| 53 | If you stand in front of a mirror and look at yourself and say , okay I 'm just too fat , I 'm going on a diet , and you have sufficient willpower to stick to your diet , you will lose weight , so when you 're talking about behaviour , it 's not so stupid to think that will is associated with the final outcome , because we know that people can will things which have , which have affects on their emotions and their , and their behaviour and their state of mind . |
| 54 | Larkin 's own oast house is not so good to look at . |
| 55 | With boys in unskilled employment , the intention was not so much to impart skills , ‘ as to retain [ them ] at an impressionable age and to mould and discipline their character ’ , and in such cases specialization or technical training would be out of place . |
| 56 | The primary function of the teacher is not so much to impart information as to help the student to assimilate the course of reading and lesson notes and to stimulate the questioning attitude of mind by every means at his/her disposal . |
| 57 | The results are sought not so much to enrich the domain of research with fundamentally new findings as to demonstrate the validity of some new form of automatic processing . |
| 58 | Blown-up extracts from contemporary Paris newspapers , on panels larger than the works of art on display , suggest that the district 's sudden fame was not so much to do with art or philosophy , but the novel phenomenon of la jeunesse . |
| 59 | But perhaps this not so much to do with ‘ stars ’ as the fact that related people often share the same preferences when planning their families . |
| 60 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |