Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a senior transport pilot of the Russian Air Force at the age of 28 , ‘ Deemy ’ was not altogether at home in the eastern regions of Siberia . |
| 2 | Thiercelin , to whom first impressions were important , sensed that beneath the gushing stream of words she was not altogether at ease . |
| 3 | About literality and freedom in the rendering of poetic texts , however , the applied linguists are not altogether at ease ; Hatim and Mason ( 1990 ) allude to Roman Jakobson 's argument that in a poem " formal aspects of the linguistic code become part of the meaning , so that translation proper is impossible " — in other words , that the only option may be some form of creative equation in which the resources of the target language are searched for equivalents or compensatory balances . |
| 4 | The outbreak of war in September 1980 between Iran and its principal western neighbour was not altogether without precedent . |
| 5 | Elizabeth was not altogether in favour of the last choice but as Lamb was now officially betrothed to Martha , she had given in . |
| 6 | The Lords of the Treasury , Wilson said , regretted that this was ‘ not altogether in accordance ’ with the recommendations of the Select Committee , but they felt that they had no alternative . |
| 7 | Benson 's Diary , 25 May 1925 : ‘ I 'm not wholly at ease with Michael . |
| 8 | The only person not wholly in sympathy with this plan was the bartender who complained that I was supposed to be off duty and that the passengers should come to the bar to buy the drinks themselves ; I was syphoning off his tips . |
| 9 | Angel herself is not wholly in context , and at times the author 's attention slipped . |
| 10 | The texts are to be read and reread , with all the scrupulosity and rigour that Norris attributes to Derrida , and if not wholly in French , at least with frequent references to the original . |
| 11 | However , sex differences in achievement are not uniformly in favour of girls across all subjects : while girls regularly achieve higher numbers of passes in some subjects , boys consistently achieve higher numbers in others . |
| 12 | I 'm not on about money , so long as you 're happy , yourself . |
| 13 | First he shows how , in the successive volumes compiled under the generic title of ‘ Primer ’ , composers would have found whole psalms located in contexts able to suggest the composition of the psalm-motet not chronologically in succession to , but simultaneously with , the votive antiphon . |
| 14 | Especially not right after breakfast . |
| 15 | Ca n't think , well not right in town . |
| 16 | Er , by , by the bar would you say it no not right in front |
| 17 | Somehow they must disentangle the satellites ( which are for sale ) from the land-based computers and data banks , which make sense of the satellites information but which are not apparently for sale . |
| 18 | As Mr Grovey searched the room for a suitable candidate to partner Brian this week , unhappily his eye fell on me ( not literally of course , it 's just a way of saying ‘ he looked at me ’ ! ) . |
| 19 | Whilst Croatia and Slavonia were being laid waste during the centuries-long struggle between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans , Dalmatia , although not entirely at peace , enjoyed relative prosperity and order . |
| 20 | By contrast , Oistrakh on Le Chant du Monde , though not entirely at home in the Gallic idiom , is far more subtle in inflexion and seems less determined to impress . |
| 21 | Though she was not entirely at ease with Mrs Frere her heart flooded with sympathy for her loss . |
| 22 | Johnstone was not entirely at fault . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're not entirely beyond hope , then , ’ she said . |
| 24 | But whatever blame for the German failure in the first week at Verdun may attach to Falkenhayn ( and in his Memoirs the Crown Prince heaps all of it on him ) , the Fifth Army Command was not entirely beyond reproach . |
| 25 | That was not entirely for lack of trying . |
| 26 | For while Tughluk Delhi was first and foremost a barracks-town , it was not entirely without culture or civilization . |
| 27 | But this short-lived diplomatic episode was not entirely without significance . |
| 28 | It is not entirely without foundation : holidaying on the cheap in such places as super-smart St Moritz , Zermatt and Gstaad is next to impossible , whatever the tourist offices there might say . |
| 29 | Such allegations were not entirely without foundation . |
| 30 | Aliens are not entirely without protection . |