Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [not/n't] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in an important respect , ( the one this article is about ) , helices are not at all classical . |
| 2 | In other ways , too , the evidence of coins needs to be used with sensitivity , since the depictions on coins are not at all like modern photographs . |
| 3 | Such reactions are not at all surprising , given what has recently come to light — despite the sanpro industry 's secrecy . |
| 4 | The signs are not at all difficult to pick up . |
| 5 | I know now that owls are not at all like living cuddly toys , but at the time I wanted to reach out and cuddle them . |
| 6 | These methods are not at all standardised , and draw little in their design on the parent body of knowledge , multiple criteria decision making . |
| 7 | Bogs are not at all renewable in the strict sense , because the unique historical archive stored in the past can never be replaced . " |
| 8 | His hand captured her face and turned her towards him in the old domineering manner but his eyes were not at all hard . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure Piers is n't at all interested in schoolgirl escapades , ’ she said pointedly . |
| 10 | But Mr Broadhurst 's instruction in the magical arts was not at all what I had expected . |
| 11 | But Saddam 's motives are not at all altruistic , as er , everyone , everyone can guess . |
| 12 | ‘ You know , my dear , the gospels are not at all clear on that point . |
| 13 | From my own experience , service breaks of 15–20 years are not at all unusual , although older candidates do tend to underestimate the value of their past experience , apologising for personal inadequacies which , on further examination , do not exist . |
| 14 | Some individuals are not at all photogenic and really do look much better in real life than in pictures . |
| 15 | And , unfortunately , sectarian attacks were not at all uncommon . |
| 16 | The next two years were not at all successful , and there were reasons for that which Jackie himself will admit . |
| 17 | The banks were not at all keen to lend to somebody who seemed actually to need money . |
| 18 | Designing experiments to control for all these possibilities is not at all easy , as much of the debate within the research literature shows . |
| 19 | I hope this letter shows Rotties are not at all vicious but need a little bit of love and care . |
| 20 | But these figures are n't at all certain . |
| 21 | The Fat Controller forced upon me the conclusion that things were not at all as they seemed . |
| 22 | However , the extent to which products like PageMaker , Ventura , Harvard Professional Publisher or Ready , Set , Go will impact on a dealership 's day to day customers is not at all clear . |
| 23 | Technically , the cetacean side of things is n't at all well handled : the beast is evidently as much of a pawn as Jonah ; its providential appearance just as the sailors are tossing Jonah overboard smacks far too heavily of a deus ex machina ; and the great fish is casually dismissed from the story the moment its narrative function has been fulfilled . |
| 24 | A campaign for the effective use of current resources is not at all incompatible with a campaign for additional ones and may enhance the clarity with which the shortfall in support for teachers is expressed . |
| 25 | Policy documents expressed commitment to Community Care but the relationship between broad policy goals and the specific activities of service providing agencies was not at all clear . |
| 26 | The Jewish law regarding sexual relations is not at all related to the Christian concept of sex being sin , or to women being sinful in some way . |
| 27 | PSI , which is supported by the EPHOS guide to public procurement , is a reaction to end-users ' belief that too much time has been spent focusing on the protocol aspect of interoperability — in which users are n't at all interested . |
| 28 | High cereal prices were not at all " extraordinary " in the years of the French wars from 1793 to 1815 . |
| 29 | Americans were not at all used to being defeated . |
| 30 | Yet Owen , Roff and their contemporaries were not at this point working as real headhunters in the American sense of the word . |