Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the war , a doctor who gave him a check-up ( incredibly enough not recognising him ) remarked : ‘ One can see that you were n't in the war . ’ |
| 2 | Well if we 're producing more of our own goods , we are importing less of somebody elses alright and if we actually become a net exporter then we 've erm closing down the markets of third country exporters right so not only do we er consume less of er New Zealand lamb than we might do otherwise , right . |
| 3 | Indeed , men and women not in uniform were asked most pointedly not to use them . |
| 4 | An Amosquito , however , it is most adamantly not . |
| 5 | ‘ I find that nowadays I would much rather not read about criminals . |
| 6 | Oh no , I 'd much rather not . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , the received opinion seems to be that you should have sex and that it 's not all right not to have it . |
| 8 | So he played gently enough not to make the hammers of Stein 's pianos bounce up and hit the strings again . |
| 9 | I 'm frank and candid by nature and so perhaps not surprisingly my career was blocked , former friends learned to cross the street when they saw me coming and I quickly became a non-person ; a communist speciality . |
| 10 | No so perhaps not , mm . |
| 11 | She 'd been in the business long enough not to be surprised by anything the intelligence services got up to . |
| 12 | It is it is in a way is n't it well very much so not just in a way it 's very much because we have what 's that saying we say a picture is paints a thousand words yeah ? |
| 13 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 14 | It 's not so much not liking , it 's not really trusting people , like us . |
| 15 | So so not only did you read it you heard about it . |
| 16 | For but everything is so so not wholly satisfactory so I 'm just scared to have them in the house . |
| 17 | The water company , which is also helping to fund the project , along with the National Rivers Authority , will drill a new borehole far enough away not to effect the water level in the fen . |
| 18 | I was holed up forever with the RSC , and so just not available . |
| 19 | So utterly not with it . |
| 20 | I mean obviously not not desperately but do you think he does n't think oh she 's a complete |
| 21 | Not that he was succeeding ; Sergeant Crane was sitting , legs crossed , only just not fidgeting , as Bruce Davidson wore on through a lot of unnecessary detail . |
| 22 | You 're so quickly not part of the team . |
| 23 | ‘ And better still not to be one of them . |
| 24 | Indeed , oftentimes a doctor may expect trust without himself reciprocating , in that , for example , he will choose not to tell his patient certain facts , on the paternalistic premiss that the patient is better off not knowing . |
| 25 | Concurrently at 303 Gallery Acconci is showing two pieces from 1991 : ‘ Home Entertainment Centers ’ , which features life-sized inflatable dolls with media implants and ‘ Pleasure Heads ’ , which are probably better off not being described . |
| 26 | I reckoned they would be better off not being involved in our constant battles . |
| 27 | Thus , we are better off not only in terms of the money people have to spend , but also in terms of the quality of our schools , hospitals , roads and other forms of public service that are an important part of our true standard of living . |
| 28 | No , I 'd better not be told , because I should only begin counting up all the things I 'd missed , and you 're better off not knowing what you 've missed . ’ |
| 29 | Nevertheless , cattle are enemies of grass in that it is still true that an individual grass plant would be better off not being eaten by a cow than being eaten , and any mutant plant that possessed , say , a chemical weapon that protected it against cows , would set more seed ( containing genetic instructions for making the chemical weapon ) than rival members of its own species that were more palatable to cows . |
| 30 | I think , rather as you did earlier , she feels I may be better off not knowing everything . |