Example sentences of "[det] be [not/n't] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a band , this is not at all desirable because their earnings are out of their direct control . |
| 2 | The choice to concentrate on this period should not be taken as implying that coin designs are unimportant in the study of other cultures , for this is not at all the case . |
| 3 | This is not at all her normal line on the subject . |
| 4 | ‘ This is not at all what I thought , ’ he complained . |
| 5 | This is not at all the case and if Tam ( who is usually very accurate in his writing ) read the material coming from the European Parliament he would know that this is not the case . |
| 6 | This is not at all the simple task that it may at first seem : we shall see that considerable care must be taken in interpreting the official statistics on unemployment . |
| 7 | This is not at all to say that there is among the professions an animus against the industrial co-operative as incorporated body for doing business . |
| 8 | This is not at all surprising given the insistence by magistrates on the uniqueness of the cases appearing before them , which is why they utterly reject calls for consistency ( Parker et al. , 1999 ) , since these are seen to betray an ignorance of their own unique role in deciding each case on its particular merits . |
| 9 | As we shall now see , this is not at all the case . |
| 10 | This is not at all an easy task . |
| 11 | You know it 's wicked is n't it really , cos some of this stuff , I mean this is not at all bad is it ? |
| 12 | ‘ As a matter of fact , ’ he adds , ‘ this is not at all what we ordinarily perceive . ’ |
| 13 | This is not at first apparent , mainly because of the particular uses to which his work has been put . |
| 14 | as if this was n't at all what he 'd bargained for . |
| 15 | This was not at all unreasonable but , looking at the full deal , you can see that Three No-Trumps would have been easy . |
| 16 | This was not at all like school . |
| 17 | This was not at all what the supporters of union wanted , but they were willing , in order to lure and placate British opinion , to accept such an intergovernmental structure alongside an assembly . |
| 18 | While we know of certain special cases ( the sonnets of Michelangelo to Tommaso Cavalieri , for instance ) , it is now clear that this was not at all customary , and that the imputation of homosexuality in the Renaissance could have as destructive an effect on a man 's life as it has had until recently ( if , indeed , there has been any real change of English attitudes in these supposedly liberal times ) . |
| 19 | This was not at all a foolish answer , if one supposes that geometry describes the properties of space and that occupancy of space is the basic property of matter . |
| 20 | This was not at all what she had imagined when Miss Grimes left . |
| 21 | It seemed almost as if she would have to side with Ianthe against the anthropologists , and this was not at all what she had intended . |
| 22 | The organization of this was not at first easily accepted by every member of staff . |
| 23 | These are not at all original or exotic but are based on the ordinary things that most people tend to eat . |
| 24 | He said , ‘ You have made the music very clear , the fp here , the accent there ; but these are not at all important . |
| 25 | These are not at all interwoven in the style of most of the reconstructions . |
| 26 | The importance of the former for the latter is not at all diminished by exhibiting languageless creatures that can associate across modes . |
| 27 | Often those are n't at all the sort of clothes they wore while they were alive , but they think it makes them grander when they start saying " REVENGE ME ! " or " OH HORROR , HORROR ! " and things like that . |
| 28 | Even if such gruesome events really were seized upon , in medieval and Renaissance times , as an excuse for uproarious carnival , Verdi 's music makes it abundantly clear that that is not at all what he intended . |
| 29 | And that is not at all easy . |
| 30 | But that is not at all what we have in mind . |