Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Personal transport had since the dawn of time been limited to footslogging or a horse not too exhausted by its labour in the fields . |
| 2 | Her babies ' eyes are not yet open , their ears not yet sensitive . |
| 3 | Do you know , Hugh , what the sortes sent to Roger of Salisbury , who fell into Stephen 's displeasure not so many years ago and died disgraced ? |
| 4 | THE FUTURE NOT SO TENSE |
| 5 | He was of the same cut as Piers , tall and dark , but his face was more animated , his eyes not so heavy-lidded and languorous . |
| 6 | I would like to have a Golf G T I car not too simple and not too flashy . |
| 7 | I would like to have a Golf G T I car not too simple not too flashy . |
| 8 | David not as far as St Tropez where |
| 9 | Was David not very good last ye last year ? |
| 10 | So you need to have that figure in your mind not necessarily that one . |
| 11 | There 's no space for a roof … even the drivers not too sure about the basic design . |
| 12 | Herluin might hold it against the boy that he had disgraced Ramsey not so much by attempting theft , but by making a botch of it , but Herluin had also been of the abbot 's party . |
| 13 | Nobody pretends this is a cheap option , but the specialist alone will have access to injectable antibiotics and other items of first aid not generally available . |
| 14 | This has had the effect that for centuries Emmental farmsteads and lands have had great historical continuity as units accumulated agricultural wealth and skills ; and they have given the landscape very impressive and characteristic features : the majestic farmsteads with enormous double-thatched roofs extending like half-folded wings nearly to ground level at the sides and encompassing under one giant roof not only living quarters but also stables , barns and other ancillary accommodation . |
| 15 | In the late 1980s , the annual programmes produced by both the Partnership and Programme Authorities were in many respects not substantially different from those produced a decade earlier . |
| 16 | Kaopectate and terra fullonica appeared equally effective in their endotoxin-binding activity and eliminated endotoxins from the systemic circulation ( systemic endotoxin concentrations not significantly different from healthy controls ) . |
| 17 | However , scrutiny of the events leading up to the 9 July announcement suggests that this decision was a result not so much of Soviet ‘ opportunism ’ as of the policies of the Eisenhower administration and the brinkmanship of Fidel Castro . |
| 18 | Dr Martini predicted the BBC 's plans would also provoke the complete opposition of islanders not directly involved in the affair . |
| 19 | That , of course , is a plainly nonsensical result and , casting myself in the role of the interfering outsider not so familiar with this Act , I ask myself what is the answer to that . |
| 20 | As has been recorded in this chapter , the principal anti-cancer drugs have been discovered either as a by-product of military research financed by government or by research in the pharmaceutical industry , much of which had its roots in research not primarily concerned with cancer . |
| 21 | It was the fault not so much of the railways as of the suburban landowners who deliberately kept land prices beyond the pockets of the working class and thus preserved social exclusivity . |
| 22 | Carter try to ingratiate themselves at our Circulation Not So Bad After All Party , 1990 |
| 23 | Modern agriculture demands not only scientific and biological knowledge , it also requires managerial competence . |
| 24 | But if we listen to them carefully , it is evident that they parade their doubts not so much to resolve them as to evoke public sympathy and to gain that sense of identity which comes from subconsciously defining themselves by their problems . |
| 25 | Eliot refocuses his island world for ‘ the Age of Jazz ’ , in a piece not entirely dissimilar to , but more bitter than , his earlier vaudeville experiment in ‘ Suite Clownesque ’ . |
| 26 | She 's in her underwear not too revealing . |
| 27 | Many men will leave the aircraft with weights not far short of their own body weight ; almost all of this kit will be essential to carry out the soldiers ' tasks . |
| 28 | Today it is one of the largest unitary , non-collegiate universities in Britain offering not only first-class tuition in every principal subject but also an unsurpassed range of undergraduate courses — a cosmopolitan University in a cosmopolitan city . |
| 29 | Pictures not only freezing for ever moments of history , but also providing ample testimony to the endeavours of photographers themselves . |
| 30 | Difficult though ‘ adequacy ’ was to define , this meant in practice not only improved institutions but also that , contrary to much previous practice , out-door relief once given should be sufficient for ‘ decent living ’ , whether granted in cash or kind . |