Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are three conclusions drawn from these arguments , all to some extent encapsulated in the 1958 Education Reform Bill , though it is not altogether clear how the proposals are related to each other . |
| 2 | At the same time it is not altogether clear how much weight to attach to figures quoted in the charged atmosphere of a hearing by the Royal Commission in 1517 . |
| 3 | He is large Minnie and loud and not altogether sensible often and I would have no other man in the house to manage him if need be . |
| 4 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with small imbricating transparent scales or skin covering the disk , the scales often armed with spinelets or granules which may obscure them ; the disk sack-like , sometimes indented interradially ; the radial shields not integrated with the disk but over laid by the scales or skin covering the disk with only their distal ends evident ; the jaws as broad as long ; one to several apical papillae flanked by three to many oral papillae each side ; tentacle pores not conspicuously large usually armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines vary in length but dorsal ones usually longer than one arm segment , sometimes forming a fan on proximal arm segments . |
| 5 | For but everything is so so not wholly satisfactory so I 'm just scared to have them in the house . |
| 6 | If the salvage is not economically worthwhile then it should be made clear to the Policyholder when the actual total loss is paid that the remains are their property and it is up to the Policyholder to dispose of them . |
| 7 | He was not properly well again until the end of October , although he was still extremely resilient . |
| 8 | Your rock haul will feature Nirvana 's first album , Bleach — not widely available here before and packed with great tracks such as Blew and Floyd The Barber . |
| 9 | I 'm nearly seventy , er my pension , will be going up by a pound and odd , I 'm not right sure how much . |
| 10 | He was not entirely harmless either , not when she thought of him spread on his mother 's lap . |
| 11 | However the feeling was not entirely pleasant either . |
| 12 | He said that a company could suffer bad headhunting experiences if it was not entirely sure exactly what it wanted the search consultant to do . |
| 13 | The Xerox team is not entirely sure why , but Dr Ziolo reckons that sodium ions from the resin are creeping into the crystal lattice and making it more permeable to light . |
| 14 | Stork was not entirely sure how the headhunting process worked ; indeed , there were no guides to the subject and all the existing purveyors of search are more or less self-taught . |
| 15 | Alice was not entirely sure how . |
| 16 | He was not entirely happy there , however — he complained to some friends afterwards that dinner was served very late in Spain — and returned to London on 7 May with a sore throat , cold and catarrh . |
| 17 | However , it is not entirely clear how the White Paper 's proposals will affect services for individual patients , particularly those with complex or chronic conditions . |
| 18 | Initially it was not entirely clear how they , or other British units further west along the frontier , should be expected to respond if the Croats made a concerted advance further into Austria . |
| 19 | But even if Kants idea of a unitary space is granted , it is still not entirely clear how places in such a space can act as a principle of individuation . |
| 20 | With the construction industry currently enduring its most severe depression in memory , the picture is not entirely rosy even for Roseberry . |
| 21 | The Staufen claim to imperial suzerainty over England , too , was not entirely unrealistic either at this time . |
| 22 | Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons . |
| 23 | They are not obviously satisfied elsewhere and it is significant that these are the main areas that have proved susceptible to analysis by stimulation . |
| 24 | The people who removed themselves from the register to avoid paying the tax were unlikely to be Conservative voters ( although they were not necessarily pro-Labour either ) . |
| 25 | These persons were not necessarily well off , but they were literate in Sinhala if not in English and had a relatively high standard of living ; they may be termed local élites . |
| 26 | These defects , which are bubbles , cracks and delaminations , are not necessarily visible even under the highest magnifications of optical or electron microscopes as they may be hidden by other elements of the circuit in layers above the flaw . |
| 27 | Or one might expect an aggressive horse to be mean and uncooperative , but this is not necessarily true either . |
| 28 | Not necessarily novel though is it ? |
| 29 | Innovative and creative teachers are not necessarily those most accustomed to such disciplines or amenable to them ; perhaps the opposite is also true . |
| 30 | Rommetveit argues that the sentence is not necessarily self-contradictory even if the individual referred to by the two nominal expressions is the same individual . |