Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Newry defender Errol Lutton , called into the 20-strong Irish training panel earlier this week , has a chance to impress coach Cees Koppelaar , but it 's not clear yet whether he will line out for Ireland or for his club ! |
| 2 | ‘ My wife and I are not badly off as we have the state pension , my police pension , and a police civil staff pension . |
| 3 | Anybody who has operated in business for more than five years knows that invariably in five years the business is not all right unless something has been done about it . |
| 4 | Joseph retorted : ‘ It 's not all right if she 's going around saying that . ’ |
| 5 | The other charters in which Aethelbald is styled ‘ king of the South Angles ’ ( CS 157 : S 94 ; CS 163 : S 101 ) are either not necessarily earlier than 736 or not certainly genuine ( CS 164 : S 103 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ In a largely illiterate society this oral epic singing also had the function roughly corresponding to the modern mass media — it spread the political news , much more slowly but perhaps not less reliably than the modern press , radio and television . ’ |
| 7 | Democracy is becoming a reality , the possessors of new and increasing political power are finding their feet , not less abroad than in this country . |
| 8 | He was silent then and I had the feeling he was thinking of all that Cook had done , first in Endeavour , then in Resolution and Discovery , ships not much longer than Isvik . |
| 9 | This second invasion of Caesar lasted not much longer than the first but he advanced farther into the country , having a larger army . |
| 10 | After Emmie had had her bath she felt cool and clean for not much longer than five minutes ; by the time she was dressed , she was sticky and hot again . |
| 11 | ’ Changed a bit , ’ said Arthur , looking at a girl dancing in a mini-skirt not much deeper than a belt . |
| 12 | The professional were not much better than the amateurs at distinguishing the irons but were better than the amateurs at spotting the shaft differences between the woods . |
| 13 | Most ceramics are not much better than glass in this respect but the ductile metals , such as wrought iron , mild steel , copper and aluminium , have works of fracture which are enormously higher than their free surface energies and range between 10 4 and 10 6 J/m 2 . |
| 14 | One suspects that in the end , they see no real use in either ‘ dick-tionaries ’ or dictionaries : a feminist orthodoxy is not much better than a sexist one . |
| 15 | But lame Lucca skipped and dived into dark recesses at Signor Fixit 's commands barked out in Italian that was not much better than Molly 's . |
| 16 | Although a number of schools offer good healthy food , some school meals are often fatty , sugary and low in fibre — sometimes not much better than the food children eat at home . |
| 17 | The letters , since this , had had to be collected from the boatyard office , and Laura felt that this made it not much better than living abroad . |
| 18 | Many after all had served in households not much better than their own , for servant-keeping reached well down the social scale . |
| 19 | The second-half power cut hardly mattered because Oldham , embarrassingly inept as three goals punctuated the first half , were not much better when they were allowed to play . |
| 20 | The travelling , the exigencies of the business , the constant promotional activity , prolonged absences , his own mercurial nature , made life difficult for Susy if she stayed at home and not much better if she accompanied James on the circuit , something she never much liked to do . |
| 21 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 22 | After all , a large fast reactor could cost not much less than £2000 million to build . |
| 23 | Let us be adult about this and accept that , in view of the fact that even the very strictest diets suggest that you eat not much less than 1,000 calories daily , those three calories are n't going to make a jot of difference to your weight loss . |
| 24 | Asfordby expects to produce not much less than 2 million tonnes of coal a year with only 400 men . |
| 25 | The minimum latency period should be not much less than ten times the period between offline runs . |
| 26 | More riskily , the budget announced in December was based on the assumption that the oil price would average $22 a barrel for the year ; it is not much more than $17 now . |
| 27 | The Foundation 's funds , although they arise in modest sums from events such as the concerts and total not much more than £300,000 , have a disproportionate effect in use . |
| 28 | The body itself was not much more than five feet tall , the coffin measuring five foot 6 inches in length . |
| 29 | A very small illumination of about 1450 , and not much more than 1½ inches square , provides an insight into how the body was wrapped . |
| 30 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |