Example sentences of "not at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not at all well , very breathless , and by the time we are in the care he is gasping for air . |
| 2 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 3 | One must never forget that the reality of the twentieth century is not the reality of the nineteenth century , not at all and Picasso was the only one in painting who felt it , the only one . |
| 4 | H. W. Janson 's History of Art , the standard college textbook , did not at that time mention a single woman artist ’ ; and in discussing the period reviewed by the exhibition , various choices of media made by women artists are chronicled , for , ‘ Many women artists eschewed painting — especially abstract painting — as a domain polluted by long saturation with male dominant values , and developed their themes in performance . ’ |
| 5 | It 's a very funny joke , but it works at the expense of treating her like a child , which is not at all what the novel usually intends . |
| 6 | The music of the words is there to be used — but not at the expense of the sense and emotional content . |
| 7 | Not at all . |
| 8 | He is free born and trembles not at priestly threats or the papal curse … |
| 9 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 10 | Out on to the stones of the terrace there fell a thick metal spike , not at all dissimilar to the blood-smeared one on which Lord Woodleigh had not fallen , out of sight for a few vital minutes from anyone looking from above . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not at liberty to divulge , ’ said the postmaster . |
| 12 | ‘ When Conroy and I came in you were not at your post . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not at all sure that I 'd want one . ’ |
| 14 | Not at all , actually . |
| 15 | ‘ No , not at all . |
| 16 | If you stall accidentally it is almost always because you are not aware of the low speed , etc. and therefore all the training in the world will not prevent you from responding instinctively because you are not at that moment aware that you are stalled . |
| 17 | If there is a child at school with HIV or AIDS , perhaps born with it or caused from infected blood transfusions , your child is not at risk from everyday contact . |
| 18 | Lucy was not at work the next day , Francis was writhing in voyeuristic anticipation , Jay was mute , and Access and Interflora were making easy money . |
| 19 | Or : she loved Lucy and so she was not easy ; she was not at ease . |
| 20 | A successful team may have to go through a number of fights during the course of a day 's competition so it is not at all unusual to see teams short-handed through injury in the final stages . |
| 21 | Not because we made a fool of him at the Reel on Monday , no no , not at all . |
| 22 | ‘ Not at all , ’ said James Menzies . |
| 23 | Not at all — the price was too good — MacDonald 's factor was far too busy agreeing a price for the young folk that he sold to the Carolina merchants . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , he was not at home . |
| 25 | ‘ Not at all — I was concerned with one thing only , this Act and the difficulties and sufferings it entails , that kind of thing . ’ |
| 26 | It moved him not at all . |
| 27 | ‘ Not at all . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Not at yours . |
| 29 | ‘ You are not at all satisfied , ’ Susan said softly into the President 's ear . |
| 30 | Could you tell us why you are not at work ? ’ |