Example sentences of "[not/n't] be at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 2 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 3 | This has not been at all easy . |
| 4 | Some of the statements of Mrs Thatcher and some of her ministers have not been at all helpful . |
| 5 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 6 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 7 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
| 8 | So far though the viewers had not been at all suitable . |
| 9 | But things had not been at all what they 'd seemed — though she was bound by her promise never to reveal the truth . |
| 10 | RENFE , like BR , had , in the words of a Spanish government official , ‘ not been at all concerned with capturing customers and markets , it was more a question of waiting for people to come and request its service ’ ( fieldnotes ) . |
| 11 | ‘ British Airways will not be at all pleased with me. ’ |
| 12 | Now the teacher entering this role may not be at all clear which of these or mixture of these or other structures is going to be appropriate . |
| 13 | Unfortunately their ideas have not been tested out a great deal in other areas of London or the rest of the country , so we can not be at all sure whether the findings they claim are appropriate for application to the whole of our society are in fact so . |
| 14 | Although some children may be capable of finding there are the same number of things in two sets ( by matching ) , they may not be at all sure there are still the same number of the objects if one of the sets is differently arranged . |
| 15 | But very obviously our traveller 's decision would not be at all like that . |
| 16 | In this situation an international socialist conference demanding peace short of victory would not be at all helpful . |
| 17 | In a good year a gathering of twenty pounds would not be at all unusual of the largest and most succulent imaginable . |
| 18 | If the painter were to use the same intensity of blue for the sea both near and far then the effect would not be at all realistic . |
| 19 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 20 | Indeed , ; second , while there are connections between at least some elementary general training and the advanced forms of professional training , and while access to these advanced forms , for those who want it , is still relatively open , the form of division between ‘ artist ’ and ‘ public ’ need not be at all of a damaging kind ; it is often in practice a willing and serious interchange between professionals and those interested in the highest development of these/skills . |
| 21 | It seems to me it would not be at all difficult to cheat . |
| 22 | Obviously the car must contain some high-ranking officer , probably a general , who would not be at all pleased to find an important branch of M.I.9 in the process of closing itself down for the weekend early on a Saturday morning . |
| 23 | People boasted to journalists , it might not be at all difficult to get Tim to say exactly what had happened on the Jonquil the night Sabine Jourdain was killed . |
| 24 | ‘ I am bitterly disappointed , for Aunt Emily says that it would not be at all proper for me to come to Trelorne and that I was very wrong to let you think that I might . |
| 25 | I would not be at all surprised if the story had been put out by Goreng or his superiors . |
| 26 | The consequences of indulging it might not be at all to your liking . |
| 27 | It would not be at all difficult to imagine this person running from here to the farm and back again without pause for breath . |
| 28 | There was a blaze in her eyes that had not been there before and he could see at once that she would not be at all manageable . |
| 29 | The fourth issue is something in which the Minister will not be at all interested — European competition in the 1990s . |
| 30 | But i you have , I 'm sure to go to people and not be at all surprised if some people you can never raise the enthusiasm , because that 's human nature , and you accept human nature as it is , but if you 're positive and encourage and lead without being coercive to a high degree , I think you get more responses . |