Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the face of it , perhaps not at all . |
| 2 | Perhaps : or perhaps not at all . |
| 3 | I would not have learnt of this paper so quickly ( and perhaps not at all ) had I not had access to the Internet . |
| 4 | This was obviously not at all what he had expected . |
| 5 | The next distinction suggests itself : ballet is a higher , more developed form of dance , and as such is art , while ballroom dancing is at best only marginally so , and normally not at all so . |
| 6 | By February 1940 he had drafted two out of the five sections , and was describing the poem as a successor to " Burnt Norton " — he was still not at all sure of its worth , however , since he seemed only to be imitating himself . |
| 7 | There was one brief moment while she stood illuminated thus theatrically , and still not at all comprehending that the group which confronted her had had a close brush with tragedy . |
| 8 | She was still not at all happy about going , and frequently wondered what in fact she was doing packing anyway . |
| 9 | This will raise issues of interpretation of the disputes clause and an investigation of the type of dispute , which , unless some other provision is made in the contract , can be resolved only by the court if it has jurisdiction , or by arbitrators or a supervisory arbitral body , or possibly not at all . |
| 10 | Nelson was obviously some years younger than herself , a fact that , given her new get-up , was probably not at all obvious to him . |
| 11 | Despite anxious calculations as to how quickly the United States was becoming exposed to Soviet nuclear attack , the Council was clearly not at one with the British over what constituted intelligent and realistic negotiations with the USSR . |
| 12 | What Bourdieu has in mind here is clearly not at all primarily the classificatory struggles concerning types of symbolic goods that form so much of the subject matter of Distinction ( cf. also Un art moyen ) . |
| 13 | The woman next to me was quite clearly not at all sure whether this was Pike . |
| 14 | The facts are really not at all like a fish on the fishmonger 's slab . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's really not at all a bad sort of office to be in . ’ |
| 16 | Order , or or or order , order , the honourable lady would not expect me to comment on something that has been on television , er in something that I I have no er I I did n't even see last night , it 's up to the minister whether he wishes to come and make a statement it is really not at all a point of order for me . |
| 17 | Not really not at this particular stage you know what I mean ? |
| 18 | An EEIG does not have to be formed with a capital , but may be financed in a number of ways ( e.g. the provision of assets or services ) or even not at all if participants consider that it can operate on the basis of current account facilities from any of the participants and/or a bank . |
| 19 | Well not at national account level I 've seen lots of people now and I 'm sorry |
| 20 | When she was home with her , Katherine walked softly , spoke almost not at all , kept to her room . |
| 21 | In the Life , he makes a number of references — to Johnson 's high regard for a man he knew to be in hiding in London on account of having borne arms in the ‘ 45 ; to the curious fact that Johnson wrote almost not at all during the year 1745 — though Boswell , a windblown reed at best where politics were concerned , attributes this to preparation for the great Dictionary , rather than to any politically-induced melancholia . |
| 22 | The answer is : almost not at all . |
| 23 | No , maybe not at high speed , but at twenty-five , thirty miles an hour the Canadian can do a lot of damage . |
| 24 | The stallion 's anxiety interferes with its natural instinct : it can not manage the choreography and mechanics of the situation , its performance is poor , and the mare may not be served properly — or sometimes not at all . |
| 25 | Among those giving evidence were two care workers , who said the girl regularly arrived back to the home in the early hours of the morning and sometimes not at all . |
| 26 | It is then not at all surprising that dancing and singing , in their most general forms , have been and have remained , in complex as in simple societies , the most widespread and popular cultural practices . |
| 27 | Many of the documents in the Archives were dated either not at all ‘ or according to an incomprehensible Emorian system invented by Richard ; and it sometimes proved impossible to link the events they recorded with events in the world beyond Emor . |
| 28 | It is however not at all obvious that the results yield the conclusion that Griffin draws , nor is it clear that even if they did we would have evidence for saying more than that the creatures recognise their own bodies . |
| 29 | This pattern occurs frequently due to factors such as the way in which meter readings for , say , electricity supply are made from house to house , i.e. not at random , or the effects of localized advertising campaigns on a larger file in which many unaffected records are stored . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , mentally not at all ; physically he suffered partial paralysis down his left side . |