Example sentences of "[adv] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women are suddenly not afraid to rock . |
| 2 | His pictures were stubbornly not nice : he called for carpenters ' pencils of rough graphite rather than the refined Fabers , crayons of a denser black , and later squeezed his colour messily and thickly from the tube direct when he was in the mood . |
| 3 | Naturally not all the criticism of the massive demolitions in the 1980s was purely aesthetic . |
| 4 | Wölflinn was naturally not ignorant of artists , but the famous phrase indicated an interest in the sequence of art seen as forms which develop as if of their own volition . |
| 5 | In brief , though naturally not insensitive to the difference between lower and higher wages , they were engaged in human life rather than in an economic transaction . |
| 6 | This problem is apparently not uncommon in such carburettors . |
| 7 | This apparently not uncommon event provokes much mirth , but very little change in mast-stepping techniques . |
| 8 | While X/Open Co Ltd welcomed Novell Inc 's letter of intent to buy Unix System Labs Inc , it was apparently not impressed enough to let them carry over USL 's membership by default . |
| 9 | The retardation is apparently not due to friction with the bottom , but is caused by changes in the flow pattern enforced on the wave by the shallower water ( Russell and Macmillan , 1952 ) . |
| 10 | In addition , the Ea transgene concentration at either message or cytoplasmic protein level , is apparently not toxic to the cell . |
| 11 | Among this lot we have Belushi 's married partner Steve Frayn ( Tony Goldwyn ) who also partakes of Ms Bracco , an ambitious brother running for senate , played by William Russ , and a comatose mother in a wheelchair ( Harriet Grinnell ) who was apparently not averse to a spot of child sex abuse in years gone by . |
| 12 | Tea drinkers need cups , fine enough to taste from and strong enough to hold very hot liquid and these qualities were apparently not achievable by colonial potters . |
| 13 | In 1935 Uruguay acceded to Brazilian pressure to break links with Moscow because of allegations , apparently not unfounded , that the Soviet trading office in Montevideo had been used as a conduit for funds to the Brazilian insurgents . |
| 14 | Yes , so you believe that there 's basically not much difference between a child and a adult ? |
| 15 | Whereas in the past technological developments led to the emergence of new occupational groups , often with some measure of occupational control and , in the most recent past , usually making claims to some professional standing ( for example , the rise of the various branches of traditional engineering ) , we argue that in the future it is likely that employers will try to ensure that new jobs do not lead to the creation of new occupations as such , and especially not new occupations which will be allowed any measure of occupational control . |
| 16 | Bats are not commonly taken by owls , especially not rhinolophid bats ( Krzanowski , 1973 ) , so this behaviour is all the more exceptional . |
| 17 | This is not Louisiana , and especially not next-door Nevada ; the ethos is Protestant , quite strongly Mormon , and — despite the carefully crafted cowboy image — surprisingly strait-laced . |
| 18 | Especially not one of them . |
| 19 | Arab and world opinion could not be ignored , and especially not that in Saudi Arabia . |
| 20 | It was an unwritten rule in the department that teaching sessions were not to be interrupted by phone calls , especially not private ones . |
| 21 | We may therefore conclude in relation to bargaining structures ( whether centralised or decentralised ) that although there are clearly forces making for change in all countries their extent should , perhaps , not be over-estimated — especially not those changes which may appear to produce convergent systems . |
| 22 | Because that 's naughty we must n't chew books especially not those , not those pretty pictures there 's a good girl . |
| 23 | Especially not these days . |
| 24 | You pay £25 and sign your life away , agreeing no one else is responsible , especially not Bungy Jump International . |
| 25 | It is perhaps not appropriate to insist that Zuwaya , resisting government regulation , had an image of a different kind of economic order , consistent with or derived from their image of Arab government , and opposed to the principles of Islamic socialism . |
| 26 | Cohen had no means of protecting himself ; he was an elderly Jew — well , perhaps not elderly but clearly past his prime — and it was most unlikely that he 'd have the guts or the strength to attempt physical resistance . |
| 27 | It was perhaps not accidental that the deputy political manager for the Earl of Ilay , Lord Milton , was the Lord Justice Clerk , for between them the head of the Justiciary Court and the crown law officers controlled the criminal justice system . |
| 28 | Perhaps not diplomatic but honest . |
| 29 | It is perhaps not coincidental that the same Islanders , whilst wishing to keep their traditional forms of adoption , are also seeking legal security to protect them from undue interference from the natural family . |
| 30 | It is perhaps not coincidental that this period of turmoil was to result in a work described as a ‘ landmark in Mozart 's earlier keyboard works , only paralleled in pathos and intensity by the Fantasy and Sonata in C minor ’ ( K.457 and K.475 ) . |