Example sentences of "[det] be not 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 This was not at all unreasonable but , looking at the full deal , you can see that Three No-Trumps would have been easy .
15 This was not at all like school .
16 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 .
17 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 ) .
18 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 .
19 This was not at all what she had imagined when Miss Grimes left .
20 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 .
21 The organization of this was not at first easily accepted by every member of staff .
22 These are not at all original or exotic but are based on the ordinary things that most people tend to eat .
23 He said , ‘ You have made the music very clear , the fp here , the accent there ; but these are not at all important .
24 These are not at all interwoven in the style of most of the reconstructions .
25 The importance of the former for the latter is not at all diminished by exhibiting languageless creatures that can associate across modes .
26 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 .
27 And that is not at all easy .
28 But that is not at all what we have in mind .
29 Yes , there is a future for the concept of the mainframe — the centralised repository upon which the whole enterprise needs — but to say that is not at all the same thing as saying that the centralised repository has to be — or even should be — a $50,000 to $100,000 per MIPS machine that runs MVS — or 1100 OS or MCP or BS2000 or GCOS come to that .
30 That is not at all what — ’
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