Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , is it not overwhelmingly likely that there are other factors involved of which we know nothing , or which we simply overlook ? |
| 2 | Scarlet was not altogether correct in her estimation of her friend 's open nature . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Their position was not altogether consistent , since they were committed to professional standards of achievement within the discipline , and , as they were paid to engage in it , were themselves professionals . |
| 5 | Such arguments were not altogether new . |
| 6 | And this is not altogether surprising ; for Dorothy Pound seems to have been English in a singularly entire and uncompromising fashion . |
| 7 | Against that competition it is not altogether surprising that British newspaper readers found better issue coverage on British television . |
| 8 | In the present context , what is significant , if not altogether surprising , is that hardly a speech or publication went by between 1920 and 1922 without the most concentrated vitriol being poured upon the Jews . |
| 9 | This is not altogether surprising considering the factors militating against their preservation — break-up of skeletons after death , the necessity to have a skeleton incorporated with sediment , and the activities of predatory and scavenging animals to destroy remains . |
| 10 | Canada 's action is not altogether surprising in view of her dubious record on other conservation issues , but it is sad to see the proposals coming from the US . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As training and hire costs are comparatively low int he USA and certain other countries , it 's not altogether surprising that our young , impecunious hopefuls feel frustrated at the much higher prices asked in the UK . |
| 13 | While appreciating the situation , he said that it was not altogether surprising considering the tragic circumstances . |
| 14 | That was not altogether surprising given that , as a KGB officer who had been posted to London for six years , it would be astonishing if he had not . ’ |
| 15 | While this agreement is not altogether surprising — feminists can not entirely avoid fighting on already established ground , and the cultural importance of sex difference is deeply entrenched — its consequences have sometimes been regrettable . |
| 16 | Climbers are often confused with ramblers , which is perhaps not altogether surprising in view of their similarities , and is not helped by the practice in many nursery catalogues and garden centres of grouping the two together . |
| 17 | So it is not altogether surprising that the impact of such decisions was both relatively modest and ( in the case of the Crown Court ) short-lived . |
| 18 | Given this continuing policy vacuum on the one hand and the implacable opposition of the judiciary to any attempts to fill it on the other , it is not altogether surprising that few attempts have been made to fashion an overall criminal justice strategy that would bring together sentencing and penal policy . |
| 19 | In the ensuing proceedings custody of Miss T. was granted to her mother , which is not altogether surprising as she was still very young and was a girl . |
| 20 | The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief , and it is not altogether surprising that it does . |
| 21 | The absence of reference to a division of the southern province , therefore , is not altogether surprising . |
| 22 | Russell 's findings are not altogether surprising . |
| 23 | In view of the internal difficulties of the USSR and the apparent indifference of the British government this course was not altogether surprising . |
| 24 | I was not altogether unhappy at the Publicity Printers during those early pioneer days . |
| 25 | I was experiencing something very like despair , which was not altogether relieved when he turned me towards him and said , " I 'd love you if you were as bald as a coot . |
| 26 | She was not altogether sure whether she was dreaming . |
| 27 | Then Stella , perceptive of his tone if not altogether sure of his argument , abandoned her thumb-sucking . |
| 28 | But Floy said , in an expressionless tone , ‘ Do go on , ’ and Caspar looked at Floy doubtfully , because he was not altogether sure of Floy yet and he had the feeling that Floy might very well be thinking and assessing and generally not revealing all his feelings . |
| 29 | Not altogether sure he did n't break them deliberately ! |
| 30 | She was afraid she might have a problem getting rid of him — not altogether sure she wanted to — but in the lobby he merely took her hand and raised it to his lips . |