Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With its careful experiments and its use of statistics the Society was , however , doing work not altogether remote from experimental psychology . |
| 2 | While the United States is not altogether unique in this regard , it should be noted that the rhetoric of the classroom tends to be ‘ progressive and liberal ’ while the practice tends to remain ‘ traditional and conservative ’ . |
| 3 | Differences in level of skill are partly but not wholly attributable to different locations on a learning curve which has some uniformity for that particular skill . |
| 4 | Kathleen Kenyon 's notable effort was not wholly successful for two reasons : firstly , it was not appreciated at the time that there was only one major construction phase and not two ; secondly , the knowledge of pottery dating was then inadequate . |
| 5 | Rudyard Kipling was a more sophisticated and less sentimental writer than Grahame or Barrie ; but he was not wholly immune from similar influences . |
| 6 | The clay soils of many farms north of the Downs , for example , do not lend themselves to intensive arable farming , and few farms here ( or , for that matter , fields ) are far from woodlands so that they are not wholly dependent on such features as patches of scrub or hedges for the presence of many common farmland species . |
| 7 | But in attempting to decide whether the deviance in either case is grammatical or semantic , we are not wholly dependent on unaided intuition : reasoned arguments can be deployed . |
| 8 | They are opportunist birds , not wholly dependent on natural sites , but ready to take over man-made embankments . |
| 9 | Once the authority has accepted that an individual ECR is not wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds , it remains a management responsibility of the health authority to balance the clinical priority of acceptance of a particular ECR against its budgetary considerations . |
| 10 | I stress that the principle which underlies the acceptance of a particular ECR is that any health authority will , ultimately , accept an ECR that is not wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds . |
| 11 | If a referral is not wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds , it is not open to a health authority , wherever it is , ultimately to refuse to honour an ECR . |
| 12 | If the GP insists on that referral , the health authority will honour it , provided that it is not wholly unjustifiable on clinical grounds . |
| 13 | His support for a 15-month blanket ban on strikes suggests that he is still not wholly aware of this fact . |
| 14 | But the adolescent years are not wholly fraught with stormy scenes , misery and rebellion . |
| 15 | However , it appears that the plentiful supplies of sugar were not wholly unwelcome to Soviet leaders , who were still pursuing the consumption drive which was behind the February 1960 agreement . |
| 16 | Churchill was not properly representative of influential opinion in Britain on the subject of close Anglo-American relations . |
| 17 | In the case of amniocentesis tests , these are not widely available to pregnant women unless their age suggests that they are at significantly greater risk of having a Down 's Syndrome child . |
| 18 | Personal interviews represent another possible research methodology , but , as Gilbert says , interviewing techniques are very difficult to use , because they presuppose some considerable background knowledge on the part of the interviewers , and are hence not widely applicable in large subject areas having many specialised sub-disciplines . |
| 19 | In our study bone densities were not uniformly low at all sites , and fractures can not easily be explained by the use of steroids or disease activity . |
| 20 | Furthermore , if we recognize that the discourses of codified knowledge are not fundamentally dissimilar to novelistic discourse , it becomes evident that the novel has validity as a cognitive tool which fosters individual creativity and interpersonal communication . |
| 21 | He had had some experience , he said , of the extent to which thoughtless , incautious young men were ‘ victimized and not unfrequently involved in utter ruin on the very threshold of their career by money-lenders who prey upon their credulity and inexperience . ’ |
| 22 | Precisely who falls into the outer circle of effective kin , or the inner circle of intimate kin , is not entirely predictable in individual cases , although people normally do have a fairly clear notion of two different categories , for whom different terms may be employed . |
| 23 | The insects are not entirely defenceless against this barrage of ultrasound , for many can hear the bats ' sonic beams and take evasive action . |
| 24 | Patented in Germany and the USA by Edmund Heid of Berlin , the concept was not entirely new to British kite flyers . |
| 25 | Researchers also noted that broken bones and other skeletal problem were not entirely absent in free-range poultry farming , but there was as yet insufficient data to draw firm conclusions . |
| 26 | Nonetheless this expected compliance of the causee is not entirely due to good will : there is an assumption of dependence … |
| 27 | Not entirely unrelated to this dislike of show and publicity was Pétain 's chronic contempt for all forms of intrigue , and especially for politics and politicians . |
| 28 | I I I 'm well I 'm not entirely familiar with such jargon , I think it falls within the latter rather than the former definition . |
| 29 | Mr Saunders goes on to admit that broadcasters are not entirely blameless in this respect : ‘ More should no doubt have been done at an earlier stage in development of RDS to give the receiver manufacturing industry some guidelines setting out the minimum levels of RDS performance that should be achieved ’ . |
| 30 | It is likely that most small towns contained a tannery since the processes and equipment needed for the production of leather were not entirely suitable for domestic use , apart from the exceedingly unpleasant smell generated . |