Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Type and longevity are much harder , but not altogether impossible to cost . |
| 2 | It is not altogether easy to explain this post-classical development . |
| 3 | Evans J. held that a request by the foreign court for a particular mode of examination to be followed should be complied with , in the exercise of discretion , unless what was asked for was so contrary to English established procedures that it should not be permitted ; although in the spirit of the Convention , this ruling is not altogether easy to reconcile with the language of the Act . |
| 4 | It is , for instance , not altogether easy to write about preferential voting without conveying however unintentionally the impression that all the preferences which are expressed will be effective . |
| 5 | It is not altogether easy to understand his methods of discharging business . |
| 6 | It is not altogether fanciful to match moods to newspapers . |
| 7 | It is not altogether satisfactory to call a print by an artist on the same theme as one of his paintings a description . |
| 8 | As an example of the first , changes dependent on effects of atmosphere or mood within a play , I would instance the way in which , in Measure for Measure , the Duke , in his disguise as a Friar , intervenes at the point where Isabella , realizing that Claudio is not wholly willing to die so that she should retain her chastity , collapses into hysterical abuse . |
| 9 | That is , she is exempt from supervision but not wholly free to choose her own activities . |
| 10 | Already in his fifties , Borrow was not apparently disconcerted to find the coach meeting the train at Plymouth was full but set out accordingly on foot to St. Cleer , where he was offered hospitality by the Taylor family at Penquite Farm . |
| 11 | Unfortunately they are not all able to survive in an aquarium and some of the most colourful varieties are the most delicate . |
| 12 | It is very difficult to provide identical conditions for the measurement of six different forms of instruction , therefore it is not entirely surprising to see that Baldwin and Rudolph found , in contrast to Kuo 's results , when comparing a tape/slide show and a library tour , that the former was not necessarily superior as a method of instruction . |
| 13 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 14 | However , it is not entirely facetious to say that there is a correlation between a driver 's haircut and his performance . |
| 15 | ‘ Do I take it you 're not entirely disappointed to see me back ? ’ |
| 16 | It would be trite , but not entirely inaccurate to say that they were , respectively , the good sister and the bad sister . |
| 17 | It is not entirely fanciful to see in de Gaulle — trained as an officer and renowned as ‘ le general ’ — and Mitterrand — a lawyer by training and sometime political director of Le Courrier de la Nièvre 's — the champions of two opposing views in the traditional statist versus liberal debate on the role of the media . |
| 18 | It 's not entirely fanciful to suggest that the Church of England is a kind of conglomerate . |
| 19 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 20 | This is perhaps inevitable because in such cases it is not entirely illogical to argue that if the information was already publicly known why should anyone want to publish it or sell it ? |
| 21 | The best leys , such as the alignment of the Devil 's Arrows standing stones in Yorkshire with the Thornborough Henges , pass their tests well , but the statistical models used are still not entirely adequate to cope fully with the real distribution of sites in the landscape . |
| 22 | It is not entirely true to say everyone who is anyone has been coached there , but a heck of a lot have — Frank Tyson , Fred Titmus , Ted Dexter , Viv Richards and the teenage Ken Barrington , who hung around day after day asking questions . |
| 23 | And , besides , it was not entirely safe to go alone . |
| 24 | On the other hand there was some investment in being able to assess performance such that it was possible to reward people for ‘ good ’ performance , and the group were not entirely able to sort this one out in that it was representing to them a dependent desire to be judged and be judged as good , and yet a refusal to accept the terms upon which judgement was being made in that they felt depersonalized by it ’ |
| 25 | But it is not entirely fair to blame this tendency on sociolinguistic methods alone , since sociolinguists dealing with gender-related variation are only the heirs of a lengthy sexist tradition in the study and lay discussion of male and female speech . |
| 26 | Is it not obviously wiser to install a 2.8 litre Ford power unit ( as advertised in LRO ) . |
| 27 | It is not necessarily essential to design knowledge representation formalisms into which the input text must be translated and subsequently acted upon . |
| 28 | It 's it 's not necessarily possible to generate jobs from with within its own boundaries . |
| 29 | The general theory of the second best then provides the unhelpful result that it is not necessarily better to move prices in those sectors which can easily be adjusted , so as to align more closely with marginal cost . |
| 30 | And it was not necessarily praiseworthy to kowtow to the government 's desire to avoid legislation . |