Example sentences of "[adv] not [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A real rate of interest , which would be calculated as an annual rate per cent , takes into account the following facts : — the period of the loan may not be for a full year : interest is only charged on the actual amount borrowed ( eg not including any deposit paid ) ; — if regular repayments are being made , the full amount of the loan is not outstanding over the full year . |
| 2 | He could n't rise into that great openness which was only inches above his head where the wind blew free … and especially not with that vow he had made holding him back . |
| 3 | Humans ca n't catch it and pass it on , especially not through solid glass.in But he refused to give ground on this issue . |
| 4 | Flaubert did n't believe in progress : especially not in moral progress , which is all that matters . |
| 5 | It is an utter delight all the way , especially for travellers on foot with time to linger , but perhaps not for nervous motorists . |
| 6 | I agree with that in particular cases , but perhaps not in all cases . |
| 7 | Their minds were obviously not on meteorological work , and as the squadron gradually decreased in numbers with each little batch that left for home , farewell parties were a regular occurrence in the office and I began to think that perhaps Binbrook was not such a bad place after all . |
| 8 | Our new clippers came with fine blades , and though the handbook said these would be suitable for most horses , Skipper was obviously not in that category . |
| 9 | It might be objected that even though some criminal laws are in the interests of the dominant class and that others which are obviously not in these interests are ineffectively enforced , thus making them dead-letter laws , it still remains true that laws proscribing those types of victimizing behaviours of which we are all too aware and which set the nerve-ends of neo-classical/conservative criminologists , such as Wilson ( 1975 ) and Morgan ( 1978 ) tingling with fear and loathing , are in all our interests . |
| 10 | contract was between broker and company and company alone not with individual directors . |
| 11 | The decided cases are few and mostly not of recent date . |
| 12 | For now , such notions of bigness play well in political circles but thankfully not in all banking ones . |
| 13 | A person buys a new washing machine , and is unfortunate enough to discover that ( a ) the cabinet is badly scratched , and thus not of merchantable quality ; ( b ) the machine ripped up the first batch of clothes and half-flooded the kitchen ( ie it was not fit for the purpose ) ; and ( c ) the model delivered by the suppliers was not the model agreed upon in the shop ( ie the goods were not as described by the retailer ) . |
| 14 | It was quite obvious that The Smiths , despite the continued artistic success , were just not in any position to think , or indeed to act , big on an international scale . |
| 15 | Houses built of brick and flint , of indeterminate age but generally not of this century started to appear . |
| 16 | No no , I I , I mean , she 's always been alright with me really , I mean , y you know , she 's not not at all mother-in-law , she 's not |
| 17 | Not not for normal talk . |
| 18 | I suppose if there was I would n't take her anyway , not not round this area . |
| 19 | The legitimate way to save time in an examination is normally not by extensive abbreviation but by omitting windy phrases , such as ‘ first it is necessary to consider whether . ’ |
| 20 | I now took the first positive steps , although still not without considerable misgivings . |
| 21 | The project also enables the three firms to share what seem to be considerable risks : the 64 megabit DRAM is still not in commercial production , and many of the firms operating in the DRAM market are having trouble turning in a profit . |
| 22 | Maggie was still not in any condition to argue and she found herself following him to the dark little bar , almost running a gauntlet of greetings from the men standing around . |
| 23 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 24 | Negative endoscopic biopsies can , to some extent , be explained by the specific growth pattern of the tumour ; primary lymphoma arises in submucosal lymphoid patches , hence not within easy reach of biopsy forceps . |
| 25 | But probably not until this evening . |
| 26 | We do not know whether she was embarrassed at being named — probably not in this case , one suspects — and there is little doubt that her views of this behaviour came over more vividly without the cloak of anonymity . |
| 27 | Probably not in this essay as such , but in that area of Pound 's conversation of which this essay is a distillation , we find the reason — so I believe — why Yeats said admiringly of Landor in 1917 : ‘ He had in his Imaginary Conver - sations reminded us , as it were , that the Venus de Milo is a stone . ’ |
| 28 | However domestic work is also not like paid work , especially factory employment , in a number of respects . |
| 29 | Charles Keeping 's illustrations are clearly not for young children but for older children who are , among other things , coming to terms with violence and cruelty in our age . |
| 30 | A second-hand car which is not safe to be driven on the road ( for example because the brakes are in such a state that they would fail if the driver had to carry out an emergency stop ) is clearly not of merchantable quality , Lee v. York Coach and Marine ( 1977 C.A. ) — unless of course the car was only sold for scrap . |