Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Public Service Commission controlled all appointments ; there were 13 entrenched clauses which could only be altered by the vote of the five regional councils : a not altogether unbiased observer called this ‘ Government by Civil Servants behind a Parliamentary facade ’ . |
| 2 | So it , it is hard to say , erm and I would n't like to make a prediction except that I think the number of postgraduate students may have fallen more than the number of undergraduate students , and that we may see already even in this first year erm a substantial not altogether healthy change in the national makeup of overseas students . |
| 3 | Volume , too , was in abundance , although any serious overindulgence in this respect was rewarded by distortion of a not altogether pleasant type . |
| 4 | Measured against ‘ a stagnant US economy , a not altogether successful satellite programme , and perennial crises in NATO ’ ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 179 ) , these developments created high expectations expressed at the November 1960 Conference of Eighty-One parties in the definitive formulation that ’ the superiority of the forces of socialism over those of imperialism … is becoming ever more marked in the world arena' ( Zimmerman : 1969 , p. 181 ) . |
| 5 | Though natural light was obviously not an amenity they thought much of , there are traces of glazing in a few of those infrequent and shapeless holes that howl in the wind ; elsewhere , of a primitive and not altogether unsuccessful stab at ferrocrete . |
| 6 | Martha Forbes is a lively young American single parent whose not altogether nice ex-husband is killed in a plane crash . |
| 7 | In this astoundingly popular and not altogether unpersuasive book , Miss Edwards sponsors a pedagogical programme designed to diminish the influence of linguistically determined ways of seeing the world . |
| 8 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 9 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had not beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 10 | The store had a peculiar and not altogether wholesome odour , a cross between a creek when the tide is out and the smell produced by the local sewage works . |
| 11 | For those villagers who accepted their ‘ place ’ this created a sense of psychological certainty and with it a not altogether unwelcome sense of security . |
| 12 | For those villagers who accepted their ‘ place ’ this created a sense of psychological certainty and with it a not altogether unwelcome sense of security . |
| 13 | Licensed dealers as well as stockbrokers were feeling the pinch of sudden market setbacks , and not altogether satisfactory trade figures . |
| 14 | There was a shocked but not altogether hostile silence . |
| 15 | But lying behind this is a rather higher claim which deserves not altogether sceptical consideration . |
| 16 | More importantly , but in a not altogether dissimilar way , in the lower and middle ranks of diplomacy at least seniority gained ground as a reason for promotion at the expense of nepotism and favouritism . |
| 17 | Pickup selection is via a toggle switch mounted on the upper wing' , towards the neck of the guitar , which is an unusual but not wholly impractical place for it . |
| 18 | Some generalisations proved possible , but only in a piecemeal and not wholly consistent fashion . |
| 19 | Blackwell produced an ingenious if not wholly convincing scheme for a land bank , to provide credit and to help overcome the colony 's chronic shortage of specie . |
| 20 | Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras . |
| 21 | This is not wholly satisfactory reconciliation , since it might be said that a supermarket consents to customers taking goods from its shelves only when they honestly intend to pay and not otherwise . |
| 22 | But that end you ought to have had a firm , if not wholly clear idea of from the earliest thought you gave to your story . |
| 23 | The most energetic of them may form themselves into pressure-groups of a not wholly child-centred kind . |
| 24 | Spectroscopy — in the optical and ultraviolet parts of the spectrum — of impurities and hydrogen played an important but not wholly reliable role in estimating the temperature and density of a plasma . |
| 25 | This was not wholly bad news . |
| 26 | An intriguing , though not widely accepted notion is that the first large organic molecules arose in very special circumstances , such as the hot springs ( hydrothermal vents ) that well up from volcanoes at the bottom of the sea . |
| 27 | ‘ Not since early summer when I shot a couple of rooks to keep the birds off my peas . ’ |
| 28 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 29 | I mean , I sometimes , I mean , I admit I 'm not most passionate person in the world but I then again I 'm not |
| 30 | ‘ They had met when he was a young and not tremendously enthusiastic policeman and she was a waitress in a seafront cafe . |