Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or perhaps not exactly that but … bitterness . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They have orders — although perhaps not as many as they had — but also cash flow problems , because the companies they supply do not pay their bills on time . |
| 5 | The nice people are still there to enjoy the music , although perhaps not as much as if they 'd been allowed to express themselves and some of the nasty people are beginning to appreciate the actual music . |
| 6 | Most people ‘ in the street ’ recognise what a teacher is ; most would accord a teacher of ( say ) French a certain status ( though perhaps not as much as the deserve ) as being someone who has a special skill or expertise . |
| 7 | Erm , the bottom of the picture , perhaps not quite such good quality , but certainly it 's got er , interesting detail . |
| 8 | The time spent at his summer jobs — perhaps not least that spent in his uncle Lawrence 's brass foundry reinforced this view . |
| 9 | The present danger is perhaps not so much that an honest trustee may be unfairly penalized as that a dishonest trustee may with impunity inflict loss on the beneficiaries . |
| 10 | And there was perhaps not so much to laugh at in that ; for by North 's trial , two and a half years after the breaking of the scandal , the overwhelming majority of Americans had come to feel much the same way . |
| 11 | Second , but perhaps not so much in the form of a survival as in that of a revival , Russian Formalism had a significant part to play in the development of Parisian structuralism during the 1960s ( particularly in the work of Todorov and Genette ) . |
| 12 | Now if we can sort of simplify the whole thing forget about the continents and that sort of thing what happens is that the sea water is attracted , obviously not this much , but the sea water is attracted towards The sea is attracted by the moon and you end up if you like with this bulge in the sea Now what is not so easy to understand |
| 13 | There were only three boys in whose case ‘ the clean break ’ approach was followed and obviously not too much can be claimed from such a small group . |
| 14 | There 's obviously not very much here but I mean |
| 15 | In terms of speed , we found , using the parallel cabling ( and it 's a special cable , so not just any old parallel cable will do ) that response from server to client was as quick as using a native drive . |
| 16 | Yet the first attempt in 1944 to find the Roman wall of Canterbury , which was also supposed to follow the line of the medieval wall , proved a failure , so not too much should be read into the Carlisle evidence . |
| 17 | So not too much in one go . |
| 18 | However , despite some lip-service to the rights of schools to determine their own curriculum , on the whole those who argue against centralist control of schools do so not so much on grounds of loss of freedom for schools as on grounds of the consequent loss of local power . |
| 19 | People who make such assertions do so not so much on a scientific basis , but because they have another axe to grind . |
| 20 | Perhaps he had also mentioned the fact that they had observed Dersingham , presumably not too many hours after the discovery of the car in the Broad , with trousers which were dripping wet ? |
| 21 | I 'd like to start somewhere not too much in the public eye , because it takes the pressure off , so I 'll probably go to Argentina or somewhere like that , do some rehearsals and some gigs and see what transpires . ’ |
| 22 | mm , anyway not only that one Emma erm been |
| 23 | But I think you have to say the club 's just not as much as an event as it used to be . |
| 24 | They d they do it all , they do it throughout the year we just , we just do n't there 's just not so many of them , and we do n't read about them so much as we do before big elections . |
| 25 | We could sing nicer , too ; we do n't have to push our voices and rip them up , but it 's just not so much fun . |
| 26 | Just not quite such lowish light on that er , foreground , but certainly interesting detail there . |
| 27 | Now normally over each break there 's not that much there 's I 've had a few students who say they want lessons through the holiday cut normally not that much but this |
| 28 | Possibly not so much the cost , what other factors in the list of , of determinants could come into play now ? |
| 29 | But at the heart of that issue I you know that specific issue I think is a good example of the of of the problem which I see you facing is that I think it 's more not so much about the noise but about the fact that we have a relatively privileged few people who are enjoying going to these May Balls I mean and enjoying the end of their exams , staying up all night , and I wonder in fact if it 's more a matter of sour grapes rather than environmental health . |
| 30 | By the end of Saturday morning the whole place was spick and span , with hopefully not too many drops of cleaner on the floor when it came to inspection time . |