Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now these limits were fatal , they believed that they could win the war through air power and they , they could n't and the ground casualties , although fairly slight , when you think of it fifty thousand people killed is not a bi a large amount in a major war , far from it erm although erm militarily not that significant , politically they were devastating because people in America started to ask the question , what is this war for ? |
| 2 | But naturally not even legitimate authorities always succeed , nor do they always try to live up to the ideal . |
| 3 | In some cases this is apparently not as arduous a task as it may seem , simply because dischargers find it extremely difficult to portray themselves as ‘ similar ’ to their rivals on more than a very few criteria . |
| 4 | Mercifully , for it was apparently not very good music , the 15-minute ballet is not restored . |
| 5 | thesis , and although apparently not very controversial , it invoked such extreme measures simply to ensure it remained under wraps . |
| 6 | It is evident that the basic rule constraining variation in realization of ( o ) is much closer to being categorical in the strongly vernacular , low-status Clonard area than in the outer-city areas ; a static representation like rule 1 is apparently not too wide of the mark as a guide to phonological patterns in the Clonard . |
| 7 | In Geurrero State this waiting period was apparently not too long but it appeared that in other areas delays and crowded court lists inevitably meant some people spending a considerable time in custody . |
| 8 | Steve Perry is apparently not fully fit and , of the others , only Stedman and Alan Thorpe — the latter only occasionally — have opened the bowling . |
| 9 | ‘ Or perhaps not exactly that but … bitterness . ’ |
| 10 | Whereas the language of a and b is quite straightforward and all you require to arrive at an interpretation are values for expressions being used to refer , you may feel that the language here is obscure , perhaps not even meaningful . |
| 11 | Studying the fossil record enables us to show what must have happened , but , as Stephen J. Gould has been the most recent to argue , were we to be able to wind the clock of evolution backwards towards the origin of life on earth , and then run it forward once more , quite different outcomes would most likely have occurred ; not only would there probably have been no humans , but perhaps not even any brains . |
| 12 | These matters of a more technical constitutional nature are perhaps not immediately obvious to the man in the street , nor even to politicians ; yet it is incredible that there should still be people advocating federalism for the EC given the abysmal record of other multinational federations . |
| 13 | Lanfranc was an upright and able man , but perhaps not wholly averse to the manipulations of worldly policy . |
| 14 | It is perhaps not strictly correct to call it an ‘ old ’ contradiction for , in the pre-NHS days when solo practice was the norm and many GPs also did hospital work , the tension between medical care as technical work and as supportive counselling was relatively unimportant . |
| 15 | While it is perhaps not completely safe to make conclusions about the evolution of natural features from the fate of man-made structures , the breaching of a former complete bar does , as its author suggests , provide an alternative to the hypothesis of a locally reversed drift . |
| 16 | But he was perhaps not completely remarkable ( except for his wit which frequently enlivened Engineering Board discussion ) . |
| 17 | Indeed , it is perhaps not overly optimistic to think that the view of the relation between an event and its support put forward here may be applicable , mutatis mutandis , to the -ing form and may even throw light on the vexed question of gerund vs participle . |
| 18 | The terms ‘ Royal ’ and ‘ King ’ are perhaps not altogether appropriate for what would have been no more than tribal chieftains . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had created an essentially social symbol but perhaps not surprisingly some critics in the highly politicized 1930s chose to interpret the outer form of his creation in their own way . |
| 21 | The previous social and political hegemony of the bourgeoisie was , in a sense , perhaps not largely dissimilar to the above-mentioned phenomena , experienced as order and stability . |
| 22 | Well , perhaps not directly responsible . |
| 23 | The need for a student-centred approach , perhaps not always present in some sectors of FE , is likely to become increasingly vital to tailoring programmes to meet the individual needs of those learners not traditionally seen as ‘ student material ’ . |
| 24 | Identification of what might be called a transient problem , compared with , with a deep-seated long-term problem , is perhaps not always apparent . |
| 25 | analyse the impacts of that sector on the environment , both beneficial and adverse ; where possible place values on them ( ambitious , and perhaps not often feasible in the time available ) ; consider whether policies in that sector contribute to sustainable development in the long term . |
| 26 | I do n't perhaps not that bad but I would have definitely braked and not just eased off on the accelerator . |
| 27 | It cuts down a , er , er , risk which is perhaps not that high in the first place . |
| 28 | That Elizabeth Woodville submitted is therefore perhaps not very surprising . |
| 29 | That Elizabeth Woodville submitted is therefore perhaps not very surprising . |
| 30 | First , it is enforceable only if there is sufficient written evidence of its existence ( Statute of Frauds 1677 ) , though this is perhaps not very important since the agreement will usually be in writing anyway . |