Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tended , but not overwhelmingly so , to be in favour of ‘ Death Penalty ’ and ‘ Birching ’ . |
| 2 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 3 | Since there was nothing I could do about what was happening to my body , I decided — not altogether consciously — to ignore it and to interest myself in other , more spiritual matters . |
| 4 | They will appreciate this fact — perhaps not altogether consciously — through the forebrain , which will begin to exercise its function of sexual preparation — preparation , that is , for sexual intercourse . |
| 5 | Not altogether surprisingly , if you put a lot of capital in and the business succeeds , you get a lot of capital out . |
| 6 | However , they were oppressed , perhaps not altogether surprisingly , by the thought that , if the Act meant no more than , in plain terms , it said , then it was taking a sledgehammer to crack a very small nut , since the ambit of the exclusion — and thus the utility of the special procedures — would be very considerably narrowed . |
| 7 | There the presence of the past startled her , not altogether pleasantly . |
| 8 | The imperfect sense of national unity is thus explained , not altogether satisfactorily , in terms of those structures and mores that gave Spain social cohesion at a lower level . |
| 9 | The attendant nodded , its high voice not altogether as certain as the words . |
| 10 | Romantically but not altogether inaccurately , James Emerson Tennant , Colonial Secretary to Ceylon , wrote of the island in 1859 in his book Ceylon : ‘ a pendant that nestles gently on the swelling bosom of the Indian Ocean . |
| 11 | If I 'm not mistaken , my friend , Mrs. Jewkes , has not altogether so many qualms . |
| 12 | Though not expressly so stated as in the case of criminal appeals where there is a criminal legal aid order , it seems that a civil legal aid certificate will also cover advice on appeal . |
| 13 | Secondly , that even if the statute does not expressly so provide , a kindred limitation of her powers must arise by necessary implication . |
| 14 | In the wake of this débâcle , subsequent attempts at policymaking were less ambitious , if not conspicuously more successful . |
| 15 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 16 | With the qualification ‘ though not wholly unambiguously ’ , Brentano recognised that the expressions ‘ reference to a content ’ , ‘ direction toward an object ’ and ‘ immanent objectivity ’ stand in need of further elucidation . |
| 17 | The libertarian view is still barely acknowledged by Soviet historians and is treated by most western historians as not wholly academically respectable . |
| 18 | The leading lights of the working class were plant convenors and lodge secretaries , not elected councillors , who were generally , and not wholly inaccurately , regarded as a collection of third-rate nuggets . |
| 19 | It 's still not clear exactly what happened but somehow the electricity surged into the ground around the pole . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | If the traditional system was not properly democratically responsive , it must be changed . |
| 22 | Because this information is not widely enough known , many individuals or families are not claiming help to which they are entitled and for which in many cases they have actually paid through their national insurance contributions . |
| 23 | They wandered off to the north-east a bit but not badly enough to get really lost , and after a while made a correction to drift back to north . |
| 24 | Unfortunately he 'd been burned , but not badly enough for the bone structure to be altered as it was in Lawton 's case . ’ |
| 25 | Because there were relatively few situations which received the highest risk ratings it is not possible to clearly assess whether this increase continues for all ratings , there is some evidence that it may not since once one unusual subject 's data was removed the three situations receiving the highest subjective risk ratings were in fact never recalled . |
| 26 | Got all his hair tucked up in that thing , you see — otherwise , he 's not so like me , not strikingly so . |
| 27 | At present , though , it is used on just 3% of the world 's PCs , and is not vastly more user-friendly than Chinese ideograms . |
| 28 | He had not expected to run across Tubby Walters again , not within only two years of their end-of-war farewells in London , and certainly not in Ireland . |
| 29 | Production might well rise but would it not most probably be high-cost ? |
| 30 | They were secret , but not professionally so . |