Example sentences of "not at " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the most recent target for the Antipodian Don Quixote , who tilts not at windmills but at woodturners , and not wishing to turn a non-existent battle into a war of attrition , I can only wonder who Mike Darlow will focus his attentions on next ! |
| 32 | The route in question was at Swanage and not at all difficult — getting its HVS grade for the seriousness of the climbing and not its difficulty and I 've certainly done harder in the last month . |
| 33 | We were not at the end . |
| 34 | They were working in a flat below the old money-lender 's at the time of the murder , but not at the time of the ‘ rehearsal ’ three days earlier . |
| 35 | Stepan Verkhovensky is prissy , frenchified , very feminine though not at all homosexual . |
| 36 | Some members want the IEE now to use more muscle , with threats of expulsion from the Institution , if Thomson does not at least provide a catalogue of the material he has collected and give rock solid guarantees on its long term security , after his death . |
| 37 | It remains to show why genuine criticism is not at home in the academy ; or , more precisely , why it is irreconcilable with pedagogic practice . |
| 38 | It is possible for sixth-form students in British secondary schools to take the Advanced- ( ‘ A ’ — ) level examination for school-leavers in such subjects as philosophy or economics or sociology , but it is not at all common , and incoming university students of these subjects usually begin at the beginning , with open minds but with the necessary commitment to learning . |
| 39 | I think it true to say that at the present time it is not at all difficult for academics to appear in print . |
| 40 | Eliot , it seemed , would have us take Virgil on his terms , or not at all . |
| 41 | It is not at all incongruous that Wilson , who thus insisted on Eliot 's Americanness , should a few years later , in his pioneering classic Axel 's Castle ( 1931 ) , insist on Eliot 's Frenchness , thus giving substance and weight to Untermeyer 's too glib acknowledgement of ‘ the Laforgue mechanism ’ . |
| 42 | Quantity in this sense , duration , is what musicians and musical composers are continually concerned with ; and so it is not surprising that poets of this way of thinking , like Pound and Bunting , show themselves avidly interested in poetry which has been , not at a level of theory but as a fact of performance , intimately associated with music : poetry that has been set , or has been written in the hope of being set , to music . |
| 43 | For Pound undoubtedly made the poem more obscure by asking for the excision of some transitional and bridging passages where the language was not at full pressure , but on the other hand he caused to be removed some extended sections which , being plainly extraneous , could only have added to readers ' bafflement . |
| 44 | Not at all ; good writing is so infernally difficult that even the most modest achievement ( and Pound 's claims for some of these poets are modest indeed ) should not go unacknowledged . |
| 45 | It is , he argues , not at all clear how you raise private savings to close the other kind of gap . |
| 46 | What is not at all clear is whether one highly visible target — incineration — is anything like a major ingredient in the pollution cocktail , even at Pontypool . |
| 47 | Not at all . |
| 48 | This was not at all unreasonable but , looking at the full deal , you can see that Three No-Trumps would have been easy . |
| 49 | Neikrug 's concerto was a tenderer flower , not at home in this strong company . |
| 50 | Ryland Davies is a fluent and musically amiable Jenik , but he is plainly not at home in the long and crucial stretches of middle-to-low register that Smetana throws at him ; and the same is true of David Owen 's otherwise rather stylish Vasek . |
| 51 | The bulk of sales of dailies and periodicals here is not at the news stands , but via annual subscriptions which normally have to be renewed by 1 October . |
| 52 | Ms Sellers was not at home . |
| 53 | ‘ In the course of a long and misspent career , I have probably seen less amusing comedies than this but , if so , I can not at present call any of them to mind . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ I felt good , though perhaps I 'm not at my best yet . ’ |
| 55 | If it was wrong , it must be challenged by way of appeal or not at all . |
| 56 | ‘ Not at all . |
| 57 | We did not talk about ‘ Robin Hood ’ schemes , not at all . |
| 58 | Having burned their fingers two years ago , senior Ford executives will continue to press for change , but preferably not at the expense of another strike . |
| 59 | John Gummer , the Minister of Agriculture , has been staying not at the Imperial , but at a modest B-&-B at the back of the conference hall . |
| 60 | I write that the paradox is apparent because there have been signs of the same phenomenon in England over the past few seasons — and also because it is not at all surprising when you come to think about it . |