Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most modern chemists would probably say that we 'd have to wait a long time by the standards of a human lifetime , but perhaps not all that long by the standards of cosmological time . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's not all that far from me . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not all that far from the Midlands . ’ |
| 4 | Consumer confidence is not all that far from that , but , from the retailer 's point of view , it does not pay the staff wages . |
| 5 | and that 's not all that far from , from Taunton |
| 6 | By French standards , it was a unpolished performance lacking spark , adventure , not entirely entirely dissimilar to the one they produced against Scotland and England . |
| 7 | He was a nice , cheery fellow , though not entirely too fond of work . |
| 8 | Nicotine and caffeine are mood-altering but they are not obviously fully cross-addictive with alcohol and the various drugs that lead to Chemical Dependency . |
| 9 | If demand for the business is not obviously very strong from the outset , consideration should be given to delaying the announcement of the date for indicative bids until such time as firm expressions of interest have been received . |
| 10 | Their interpretability , however , must not be exaggerated ; their meanings are not necessarily wholly predictable on first acquaintance . |
| 11 | They are not necessarily continuously simultaneous with spoken words . |
| 12 | The ‘ creative , people were not necessarily most important in the interviews : but with their reputations as programme controllers , producers , editors , lay an applicant 's chief prospects of attracting further talent and , ultimately , the best ratings . |
| 13 | Erm and erm it 's something that we 're not necessarily consciously aware of all the time but y'know kind of for some reason they 're called back to mind . |
| 14 | Weaver ( 1989 ) says , ‘ When you plot Hershey 's excess return versus the market 's excess returns , our betas are not necessarily statistically significant from zero and the correlation factors are anywhere from 0.2 to 0.3 … |
| 15 | The following are suggestions for equal balance and contrasted tone-colours in the tutti between melodic lines in general ( not necessarily only applicable to the example above ) occurring respectively in the ‘ soprano ’ and ‘ tenor ’ registers . |
| 16 | The long wars against France had left the British more confident about their position overseas than before , but not necessarily more interested in activity outside Europe . |
| 17 | Sir : Although we are not necessarily personally supportive of the Channel tunnel , we accept that it will be completed and become part of the transport network of Europe . |
| 18 | This is the term given to the displacement of human sexual attraction upon some part or attribute of the body , or some object which is not necessarily sexually significant in itself . |
| 19 | Students are not necessarily less conservative in such matters than many congregations . |
| 20 | We 're trying to look to the gaps , and I wonder if we are , as you suggest in the comments that you 've received perhaps losing , we 're not perhaps sufficiently direct in addressing the parish organizations which are after all the core of a parish . |
| 21 | MacArthur was not personally much interested in economic matters and he was faced in 1947–48 with vocal pressure for a new approach to economic questions . |
| 22 | It is not much directly concerned with land improvements although as part of a complex system of supports , staff of the Volcans d'Auvergne Regional Park understood that support payments ( of 1,000FF/year for each cow to an unknown maximum ) were made to farmers in the Massif Central through FIDAR and SOMIVAL ( a regional development company ) . |
| 23 | However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers . |
| 24 | It 's very well played by the original instruments of Tafelmusik under the expert direction of Bruno Weil , and very well recorded , but the singers , though never less than adequate , sound not much more convinced of its merits than I am . |
| 25 | Reading the highbrow press clearly made readers somewhat disdainful towards television news and party Election Broadcasts , but not much more enthusiastic about the press . |
| 26 | So Spartans at Amphipolis were not much more attractive from the Macedonian angle than Athenians . |
| 27 | Often , invoice discounting is more attractive to the larger companies that can manage their own sales ledgers , but it does expose the factor/invoice discounter to greater risks because it is not so closely involved in the client 's affairs . |
| 28 | They are likely to be more closely related to past sexual and religious taboos which , because they are not as powerful in modern society , are not so immediately apparent to the younger counsellor . |
| 29 | The histories of science and social science demonstrate that empiricism is not so easily applicable to the latter as to the former . |
| 30 | Zborowski 's constant , if precarious , backing had meant that Modigliani was not so desperately short of money . |