Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given its inherent advantages however , this is not altogether surprising and the commercial and residential property markets have responded quickly and emphatically to LDDC 's pump-priming activities . |
| 2 | The poor man frantically tried to bargain for his reinstatement , admitting that he had been not altogether sober and apologising for making a resignation he did not want . |
| 3 | A pre-Septuagint translation of some sections of the Torah is not altogether incredible and is , in any case , given as a fact by Aristobulus , an Alexandrian Jew writing in Greek during the second century B.C. ( Eusebius , Praep . |
| 4 | A subfamily of the Ophiacanthidae with well developed disk plates or enlarged disk scales ; the disk sometimes indented interradially and often high ; the radial shields forming part of the disk , often quite long but not bar-like and hidden by the disk plates ; jaws as broad as long ; one apical papilla flanked on each side by up to six oral papillae found in most genera except Ophiocamax and Ophiomitra which have multiple apical and oral papillae ; oral tentacle pore not superficial and without conspicuously modified tentacle scales ; oral shield small to medium in size ; the tentacle pores of the arm not conspicuously large and always armed with at least one tentacle scale ; arm spines usually long , the longest equal in length to at least 2 arm segments . |
| 5 | There is fierce competition in this lucrative market , with polytechnics and universities mounting recruitment drives in the middle and far east using high-powered sales techniques , some of which are not wholly appropriate and may lead to unrealistic expectations on the part of prospective students . |
| 6 | This was not wholly successful and was soon abandoned . |
| 7 | These external pressures meant that he was writing " Little Gidding " quickly but mechanically ; the material was not properly seasoned and the first version of the poem lacked the presence of concealed private memories which would make the language cohere . |
| 8 | One is that the statutory services are not uniformly ideal and beyond reproach and those of us who have worked in and with them would acknowledge that . |
| 9 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 10 | This , of course , would not be necessary if the flute part were not rather low and hence weak by comparison . |
| 11 | During intervals of remission , subjects are asymptomatic despite the fact that the mucosa is not entirely normal and the putative causal factor(s) are still present . |
| 12 | However , melodious success was not entirely fruitful and in the late Eighties Ms Fahey retired from Bananarama and moved to Los Angeles . |
| 13 | In these so-called ‘ families ’ , individuals can feel that they are not entirely weak and alone . |
| 14 | This comment was not entirely facetious and this brings us back to the remarks I made earlier about erm the use of Tampax and the government trying to persuade women to erm use internal sanitary protection . |
| 15 | The reasons for the visit are not entirely clear and Leopold 's letters to his wife do not elaborate on his aims , their success or otherwise , since he was constantly concerned that the Salzburg censors were reading his mail . |
| 16 | He began by saying that seven years earlier Meehan had been found guilty by a jury ‘ on evidence which was amply justified ’ , and then went on : ‘ Some public support was whipped up over the years for reasons which were not entirely clear and for motives which might be imagined . ’ |
| 17 | For reasons explained in the rolling stock chapter , they were not entirely satisfactory and were returned at the end of 1923 . |
| 18 | They were not entirely satisfactory and had a tendency to derail on the very sharp corner at Pitlake . |
| 19 | The outlook is not entirely bleak and it is reckoned that of those who enrol at a clinic , for whatever reason , about 40 per cent will be drug-free within ten years , although within that time , too , 15 per cent of opiate addicts may well be dead . |
| 20 | It was possible they thought nothing of the sort , but she still felt she had to do something to show she was not entirely alone and friendless . |
| 21 | Fortunately , Craig 's position was not obviously clearer and his credibility was partly undermined by the refusal of some leading Unionists , such as Captain Austin Ardill and Martin Smyth , to follow him when he turned Vanguard from a ginger group into a party . |
| 22 | ‘ It was not obviously sexual and there was no suggestion of robbery . |
| 23 | This strategy is not necessarily unsuccessful and , indeed , in Peru ( Payne 1965 ) and Mexico , workers have received some definite material rewards through this procedure . |
| 24 | Users are not necessarily rational and their needs are likely to change over time . |
| 25 | He said speeding itself was not necessarily reckless and in the agony of the moment Gooch may have over-reacted . |
| 26 | The evolution of the role of teachers and the view of the social purpose of schools have led to a multiplicity of demands on teachers which are not necessarily compatible and may be contradictory , if not actually mutually exclusive . |
| 27 | But this difficulty was not necessarily insurmountable and certainly does not justify writing off the Duke as a political lightweight . |
| 28 | Strong muscles are not necessarily big and bulky muscles . |
| 29 | I suppose that the average Briton , although not naturally vindictive and revengeful , would be inclined to smile broadly at the idea of 3000 Inland |
| 30 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |