Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cullam gave him a look of not altogether comfortable cunning . |
| 2 | It is ridiculous to be vindictive towards a fictional character but I must admit that contemplation of some of the available illnesses was a not altogether unpleasant preliminary to beginning this present work . |
| 3 | Third , because the sort of classroom conditions required for it to be effective are simply not widely enough available in most secondary schools ( and maybe some primary schools ) at the present time . |
| 4 | Yet again , looking at this urbane relaxed figure seated opposite me and comparing him with the romantic figures of Spender and others or with the scruffy Auden , I found it difficult to believe that he was a poet and not rather some worldly and successful company director . |
| 5 | Over his not entirely clean white collar you could see his Adam 's apple thumping . |
| 6 | Also many frail but not necessarily disabled elderly people feel the need to steady themselves by touching various pieces of furniture with one hand as they move around their homes , and for them , carrying a telephone and manoeuvring the flex from one room to another may have its hazards . |
| 7 | But to suggest that we should toss out the Garden of Eden story because it is not necessarily literal historical fact would be a dangerous precedent . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for the Left , however , these are not necessarily collective working class organisations . |
| 9 | Ten parts of South Africa ( not necessarily contiguous geographical entities but based on ethnic groupings ) have been designated by the government as " homelands " for Africans ; four of these have been declared independent sovereign states but are recognized only by South Africa and by each other ; the remainder are at various stages of " self-government " . |
| 10 | Ten parts of South Africa ( not necessarily contiguous geographical entities but based on ethnic groupings ) have been designated by the government as " homelands " for Africans ; four of these ( Bophuthatswana , Ciskei , Transkei and Venda ) have been declared independent sovereign states but are recognized only by South Africa and each other ; the remainder ( Gazankulu , KaNgwane , KwaNdbele , KwaZulu , Lebowa and Qwaqwa ) are at various stages of " self-government " . |
| 11 | There is not necessarily any overall plan for the development and maintenance of the schedules . |
| 12 | Nursing and midwifery have begun to develop the accoutrements of a profession , but this development has been impeded by the burgeoning of lay-managers in the NHS , who have considerable power , but not necessarily any professional expertise , and whose prime loyalty is to accountants and not to patients . |
| 13 | It could encompass all members of the double-reed family , from treble to bass ; in addition it was often used in a general sense , simply to indicate an ensemble of woodwind instruments , but not necessarily any specific ones . |
| 14 | Customs can make a direction to treat persons as a ‘ single taxable person ’ for VAT registration purposes if Customs ( not necessarily any other person ) are satisfied that : |
| 15 | It was crucial that Soviet leaders came to trust non-Marxist and not necessarily pro-Soviet Finnish political forces to abide by the military provisions of the 1948 Finnish-Soviet Friendship and Cooperation Treaty which met Soviet security needs in the direction of Finland comprehensively and permitted the expression of the Finnish brand of neutrality . |
| 16 | Not enough young young |
| 17 | Rimsky-Korsakov 's Capriccio Espagnol provides an opportunity for the LSO to display its glittering virtuosity in one of the great orchestral showpieces — although there 's not enough hot Spanish sun here for my taste — and they then round the disc off with Grieg 's Two Elegaic [ sic ] Melodies , which are well enough played , but add little to the overall attractiveness of the disc . |
| 18 | Pryde ( 1972 ) draws attention too , to the assumption of Marxian economics ( but not perhaps all Marxian economics ) that only labour produces value , and therefore that land , water and all associated resources are considered ‘ free ’ inputs in production . |
| 19 | In Czechoslovakia , where not much exotic hi fi is available , enthusiast Jin-Janda designed a cheaper alternative . |
| 20 | I remember black faced miners and not so black faced shipyard workers passing to and fro to the nearby yards or the ‘ G ’ pit at the end of the street . |
| 21 | I 'm not so sure British Bullboy would agree . |
| 22 | But the most notable addition is the inclusion of a full blown MS-DOS environment , not so that existing applications can run ( the device has n't got a keyboard ) , but so that developers can write new programs for it . |
| 23 | Romeo is a good choice , and there are many speeches to look over and consider , but think also about the not so familiar young lover Troilus ; Bassanio , Lorenzo and Graziano , from the Merchant of Venice all make good choices too . |
| 24 | The remains of stocks and the whipping post serve as uncomfortable reminders of the not so good old days . |
| 25 | Not so much butch as brave . |
| 26 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 27 | Are these two ( or this one ) not so much capable of loving a baby , as of being worthy of a baby 's love ? |
| 28 | And what you tend to see happen is not so much joint intervention after eighteen er fifteen or eighteen eighteen . |
| 29 | It seemed to me he was not so much indifferent as hostile towards these poor men . |
| 30 | For neural nets and genetic algorithms , it is not so much fallible as crude . |