Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [conj] they [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following figures are culled from the Judicial Statistics for 1989 , and relate to the Queen 's Bench Division : Clearly these figures are not entirely comparable because they relate to cases at different stages in the procedure . |
| 2 | Gary Speed and Rod Wallace are both very good at what I would term ‘ reflex volleys ’ where the ball comes to them quickly or from an awkward angle , but perhaps not so good when they have time to think about it . |
| 3 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 4 | It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US . |
| 5 | where branches are silouetted against the colours of the sunset they must be rich and strong enough to help intensify the sense of the light coming through then , but not so rich that they seem to close , or start to compete with the same thing happening in the ripples that form their reflection . |
| 6 | It 's not so heavy when they have dried . |
| 7 | Refrigerated display cabinets are micro-processor controlled to ensure that they run at exactly the correct temperature — cold enough to preserve food properly , not so cold that they waste energy . |
| 8 | The chairs are not so bad cos they do n't lean as far back as settee back |
| 9 | Not only that but they do have different ways of achieving their maximum personal utility . |
| 10 | Parents may have carried around concerns about a past event that they feel might harm the child but often it is not as serious as they think and the subject can be raised in later sessions with the child present . |
| 11 | My , my , Dowd thought , they 're not as stupid as they look . |
| 12 | Mr Montignac 's theories are not as strange as they sound . |
| 13 | They hardly ever do , so it 's not as daring as they make out , is it ? |
| 14 | The research nurses are establishing the principle that the rigid compartments of the medical profession are not as watertight as they appear . |
| 15 | Caught off guard , in a mellow mood , away-from the pressures that the stance has been developed to shield them from , they too will admit to being disappointed and confused , not as hard-bitten as they make out , and as having found only a very inadequate solution to what seems to be an insoluble problem : how to do a good enough job . |
| 16 | erm But I do think that women need to have much more of a sense of their own power , or at least of the fact that they 're not as powerless as they think of themselves as being , and so they can say when the tutor puts his hand on their knee or something like that ‘ I 'm sorry , would you take your hand away , that 's not part of our relationship ’ or something that just so they do n't have to feel so bad about it . |
| 17 | Not as high as they have been but they range from thirteen eighty five to fourteen forty . |
| 18 | However , things are not as bad as they seem . |
| 19 | It 's not as bad as they say , but there are a lot of elements of risk in golf . |
| 20 | Recording behaviours can help parents discover that things are not as bad as they think . |
| 21 | Chances are things are not as bad as they appear — it is only the contrast . |
| 22 | The differences between it , and traditional and egalitarian feminist approaches , are not as big as they look . |
| 23 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 24 | But it is not yet clear whether they base their judgements on their own features , or whether they have become habituated to the characteristics of their full-sister group . |
| 25 | However , the world 's preponderance of very poor people want to get richer as quickly as they can and are probably not too concerned if they do so at the expense of the environment . |
| 26 | Street lights are not too bad because they do n't shine directly into your face and only cast a fairly soft light . |
| 27 | The temper of the tools seems good , just soft enough to give a razor-edge , but not too soft that they bend against hard grain . |
| 28 | As the Opposition believe that taxes , particularly local taxes , should be based on ability to pay , is it not absolutely scandalous that they suggest that the elderly and the single , whatever house they live in , should have to pay more than those with the ability to pay and are not willing to grant a discount ? |
| 29 | The final miles back to Staveley are not very pleasant as they involve road walking , particularly the last mile and a half which is along a main road . |
| 30 | However the texture of these patinas is not very convincing as they tend to be rather matt and powdery , and are quite easily recognised under the microscope . |