Example sentences of "not [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the soil is not right then the seeds will not grow . |
| 2 | Even were a suitable one found , this would not obviously better the party 's chances in the general election due two years from now . |
| 3 | They may act as legitimate grammatical subjects , but they are not necessarily also the " logical " subjects of the propositions concerned , in the sense of representing the genuine basis of predication in the given instance . |
| 4 | When Wordsworth confessed in a letter of 1794 that " I am of that odious class of men called democrats " , what he was indicating was not so much that he was a supporter of a wider parliamentary franchise as that he was on the side of the people and that he was a social and political egalitarian , though not necessarily also an economic one : " … my heart was all/Given to the people , and my love was theirs " , recalled the poet in The Prelude ( 1805 , Book IX , II . |
| 5 | The SN9000 is likely to cost a lot more than the SN8000 , so the latter is not necessarily just a transitional product . |
| 6 | The problem is not necessarily just the massive increase in numbers of walkers and climbers , but the fact that people are daily dreaming up new and more ridiculous things to do on the hills for fun . |
| 7 | Although covert , sabotage is not necessarily just an individual response . |
| 8 | An in that case , now certain can the IRB be that admission to those World Cup matches will not only be freely available to , but will be as readily affordable , by the majority of South Africans , and not necessarily only the privileged few ? |
| 9 | The point is not that everyone needs property to be free ; some people have little or no property but are not necessarily any the less free as a result . |
| 10 | Profit and loss from war was not necessarily always a matter of individual enterprise . |
| 11 | And I suppose it 's not necessarily always the one that you 've had experience in so far , you know . |
| 12 | ‘ Role conflict ’ is talked about , but this is not necessarily quite the same thing . |
| 13 | These are not necessarily merely the left-over business from a previous administration . |
| 14 | Not much later a man who was probably a Samaritan composed another history of biblical times . |
| 15 | Not much later the temple of Apollo at Delphi was rebuilt . |
| 16 | Just to make sure of getting seats , Pond put in two half-crowns , not much under a week 's wages for thousands of agricultural labourers . |
| 17 | We were n't certain — we wanted a sensible sum for these features — not so high the human ear could n't hear it — nor so low that any kind of practical arrangement was impossible for our chosen correspondents . |
| 18 | " You know how it is with children ; she 's well one day , not so well the next . " |
| 19 | The example nicely raises the issue of the degree to which a general linguistic theory is committed to giving an account of language understanding : for here we have a complex interaction between deictic words ( clearly a linguistic problem ) and a culture 's temporal reckoning systems ( not so clearly a linguistic problem ) , and the pre-emptive usage of deictic words ( which lies somewhere in between ) . |
| 20 | We found that the best were often child care experts who could suggest constructive alternatives , not so often the most senior people in the organisation . |
| 21 | This was long enough to become an expert by American standards , but not so long the life force would be sucked out of me . ’ |
| 22 | Jaromil is not so much a character as a type , and is not unlike the Shelleyan poet in Shaw 's Candida , Eugene Marchbanks . |
| 23 | Yet that something not so much a thing as an eye . |
| 24 | Equally regrettably , they suggest that she who ( presumably ) approved them is not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine : one , moreover , who has been impressed by too many drives down The Bishop 's Avenue , where Hampstead 's temples to new money are built , en route to the Finchley constituency . |
| 25 | But , as the editor Andre Fontaine explains : ‘ It is not so much a new layout as a new presentation . |
| 26 | Sir : You refer to the Prime Minister ( 4 October ) as ‘ not so much a Pharisee as a Philistine ’ , owing presumably to her supposedly vulgar tastes . |
| 27 | This rewriting of history was not so much a matter of starting again , but of making use , for a new purpose , of knowledge which was already available , whether in the work of philosophers like Hegel , economists like Ricardo , biologists like Darwin , or anthropologists . |
| 28 | It 's not so much a reconstruction of image as proof that Shocked 's confidence is growing . |
| 29 | ‘ Prince ’ is not so much a person as a persona , a space , in which he can become anything he or we want him to be . |
| 30 | The return of rock means not so much a crashdown as a return towards rock , a departure from planet pop to a self-sufficiency that matches pop . |