Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen listened carefully to both , his head forward and down , like a horse 's hanging over a gate , which was a way he had and not altogether due to the curve in his spine . |
| 2 | Forced by a combination of decline in staple industries and a crisis in housing , the exodus across the River Lea to an urban environment not altogether dissimilar to the one the migrants had inhabited , particularly around the docks , reached a climax in the 1880s . |
| 3 | However the statistics on intra-trade are not wholly attributable to a country 's membership of the EC . |
| 4 | But if simultaneous perceptual processing and bodily skills are not wholly intractable to a computational analysis , what of experience itself ? |
| 5 | Lanfranc was an upright and able man , but perhaps not wholly averse to the manipulations of worldly policy . |
| 6 | What 's more , he did n't like her — which meant , in Kronweiser idiom , that he did n't trust her — which meant , in its turn , that she was not wholly devoted to the interests of Dwight Kronweiser , MA , Ph.D . |
| 7 | This again is not fundamentally different to the education and upbringing of any child but the degree of involvement should be considerably greater . |
| 8 | Whenever the context of production of the message is spatially and/or temporally separated from the context of reception ( as in telephone conversations and in most written uses of language ) , the centre of orientation for the interpretation of deixis is not perceptually available to the addressee and therefore needs to be appropriately reconstructed . |
| 9 | He published papers on the blackening of stonework of old buildings , which he showed was not entirely due to the deposition of soot and grime , but was also due to the growth of a black mould that contributed to decay . |
| 10 | ‘ Our staff turnover is down 50 per cent and that is not entirely due to the effects of the recession , ’ says general manager of the Holiday Inn Bristol , a Scotts ' hotel which recently completed a £10 million refurbishment and emerged as the Bristol Marriott . |
| 11 | Although this is not entirely attributable to the reduction in female school leavers , it is a contributory factor which will continue into the foreseeable future . |
| 12 | Even the English romantics with their commitment to conserving rural Orkney were not entirely unreceptive to the vision of bureaucracy confounded . |
| 13 | This illustrates the line to be drawn between credit which people genuinely choose for themselves from a range of options , and credit which they use and go on using almost automatically — credit which is therefore not entirely subject to the healthy influence of open competition and free consumer choice . |
| 14 | This is , however , a somewhat doubtful proposition since not only is it not entirely applicable to the Nordic countries without qualification ( nor nowadays within manufacturing industry in Britain ) , but significant differences also exist even within continental countries , especially as between France and Germany . |
| 15 | Why Australian Mutual Provident wants the Pearl , which is fighting the bid , is not entirely clear to the City . |
| 16 | Within the team , formal status differentials were not entirely clear to the evaluators , not least because the bureaucratic structures of the education and library services are not exactly comparable , nor are the scales of pay representative of comparable scales of responsibility . |
| 17 | Kelley 's art is not entirely unknown to a British audience . |
| 18 | Although we are now talking mainly about darkness , rather than light , this is not entirely irrelevant to the Lady of Light . |
| 19 | Such concepts of group loyalty and common purpose were , moreover , not entirely unfamiliar to the business world he had entered : many of the pre-vesting undertakings had developed a strong group identity among staff . |
| 20 | This ‘ Cowocracy ’ , as they were called , were not entirely blind to the evils of slums and overcrowding . |
| 21 | I am not entirely averse to the compositions of Monteverdi . ’ |
| 22 | The new edition is not greatly different to the 1983 revision ; the format is larger and there is a narrative bibliography covering publications from 1983 to early 1990 . |
| 23 | The rate of inflation is included as the growth rates of nominal cash flows are not necessarily equal to the rate of change in retail prices . |
| 24 | Client record cards are not necessarily helpful to a dealer who inherits them , however . |
| 25 | The effect of these was to transfer the common land to private ownership ; the dispossessed commoners were given small pockets of land or other compensation , but these were not necessarily equivalent to the rights they had lost . |
| 26 | Though it needs Unix software to scale the enterprise , Microsoft is not necessarily partial to a solution such as NuTcracker . |
| 27 | This called for a great deal of judgement because there are about forty different species of rot , and the damage which they do varies and is not necessarily proportional to the visible effects . |
| 28 | Held , dismissing the appeal , it was a serious defect in the summing-up to omit a direction on the burden of proof : but the omission was not necessarily fatal to the conviction and the court could properly consider whether to apply the proviso to section 2 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 : Donoghue ( 1988 ) 86 Cr.App.R. 267 , 272 per Watkins L.J. , distinguishing Edwards ( 1983 ) 77 Cr.App.R. 5 ( where the omission was as to a direction on the standard of proof ) . |
| 29 | Held , dismissing the appeals , that failure to observe the proper procedures for service was not necessarily fatal to the lawfulness of a committal order ; that the court , in exercising its discretion under section 13(3) of the Administration of Justice Act 1960 , had to take into account the interests not only of the contemnor but also of those affected by the contempt and the need to maintain its authority , and that where an irregularity caused the contemnor no injustice the committal order should not be set aside ; that since , in the first appeal , there was no requirement for personal service of a committal order so that the only irregularity was that the court , rather than the local authority had served a copy of the order on the contemnor 's solicitors , the contemnor had suffered no injustice and the order would stand ; and that , in the second appeal , since the husband was fully aware of the findings of contempt and had not sought to challenge them or the sentence imposed , he had suffered no injustice and it was appropriate in the circumstances to affirm the order despite the irregularities which had occurred ( post , pp. 822B–C , F — 823B , 823C–E , 824B–D , F , 825C–D , 826D–F ) . |
| 30 | Although it is perceived by local authorities to be an environmental problem , dog-fouling is not necessarily harmful to the environment but of course is resented by humans for physical , visual , olfactory , health and aesthetic reasons . |