Example sentences of "not [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a senior transport pilot of the Russian Air Force at the age of 28 , ‘ Deemy ’ was not altogether at home in the eastern regions of Siberia . |
| 2 | Thiercelin , to whom first impressions were important , sensed that beneath the gushing stream of words she was not altogether at ease . |
| 3 | About literality and freedom in the rendering of poetic texts , however , the applied linguists are not altogether at ease ; Hatim and Mason ( 1990 ) allude to Roman Jakobson 's argument that in a poem " formal aspects of the linguistic code become part of the meaning , so that translation proper is impossible " — in other words , that the only option may be some form of creative equation in which the resources of the target language are searched for equivalents or compensatory balances . |
| 4 | Not altogether to his surprise , Edna seemed to have feelings very similar to his own about the matter . |
| 5 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 6 | I did submit what I had written , and , not altogether to my surprise , I received not long after a letter from Eliot beginning ‘ I am sorry to tell you … . |
| 7 | This was not altogether without a sense of loss , from those individuals , perhaps , who believed passion to be vital and life-affirming . |
| 8 | The outbreak of war in September 1980 between Iran and its principal western neighbour was not altogether without precedent . |
| 9 | A biography of an artist is a tricky proposition for a writer , since the artist may prefer to be judged through art , not life ; the incidentals of an everyday activity , not altogether under the artist 's control , are rather unimportant compared to the artist 's concentrated effort to create paintings or sculpture . |
| 10 | It was not altogether beyond the bounds of possibility that one day , somewhere , they could meet again . |
| 11 | Britain since 1945 has proved much like that , though not altogether like that . |
| 12 | There is some truth in this , but not altogether in the sense that was there intended . |
| 13 | The Lords of the Treasury , Wilson said , regretted that this was ‘ not altogether in accordance ’ with the recommendations of the Select Committee , but they felt that they had no alternative . |
| 14 | Elizabeth was not altogether in favour of the last choice but as Lamb was now officially betrothed to Martha , she had given in . |
| 15 | The attractions of Ullapool are not altogether in its intrinsic interests . |
| 16 | If Max was there when Dedo arrived the chances were not altogether against a peaceful conversazione and the witty exit of Modigliani to his own atelier close by … |
| 17 | Since the days of Queen Victoria the method of choosing bishops for the Church of England had changed , not wholly for the better . |
| 18 | Benson 's Diary , 25 May 1925 : ‘ I 'm not wholly at ease with Michael . |
| 19 | It was the accusation , or the selfaccusation , that Pound wrestled with in Hugh Selwyn Mauberley , and settled not wholly to his own or any one else 's satisfaction . |
| 20 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 21 | Bonuses are not wholly to be deplored . |
| 22 | It is important to understand that the ratio decidendi of a particular case is not wholly to be found in the case itself ; rather one must look to the way in which later courts interpret the case . |
| 23 | The inclusion of the former originated less from public concern over any alleged malpractice than from lack of confidence , felt mainly but not wholly within the legal profession , in procedures whereby ultimate responsibility for prosecuting as well as investigating in the vast majority of cases rested with the police . |
| 24 | Although he suggests he is not wholly against the permissive society , all that he can find to say in its favour is that it points to the continual necessity to make traditional values relevant to contemporary society , to the fact that the importance of the family , ‘ the very principles of order itself … are not … accepted by all ’ . |
| 25 | The texts are to be read and reread , with all the scrupulosity and rigour that Norris attributes to Derrida , and if not wholly in French , at least with frequent references to the original . |
| 26 | The only person not wholly in sympathy with this plan was the bartender who complained that I was supposed to be off duty and that the passengers should come to the bar to buy the drinks themselves ; I was syphoning off his tips . |
| 27 | Angel herself is not wholly in context , and at times the author 's attention slipped . |
| 28 | The pattern of movement , however , is not wholly in one direction . |
| 29 | Stripped of mask and domino they were not wholly unlike herself . |
| 30 | Or even if not wholeheartedly within this tradition , to posit some form of violent action as the only solution . |