Example sentences of "[adv] [not/n't] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't be too keen on bumping into anyone , especially not with the cargo he had on board . |
| 2 | Perhaps not last Sunday , and perhaps not on the way to Liam Shakespeare 's front door , but it had happened . |
| 3 | Perhaps not in the sense of de Maria or Ericson and Ziegler but surely so in the sense that the idea of it often takes precedence over all other of its aspects . |
| 4 | This dream had at last come true , for Lennie anyway , perhaps not in the way he had expected though . |
| 5 | But by the end she chose to overplay her hand and lost the sympathy of those who could have saved her from her last indignities — though perhaps not from the bottle . |
| 6 | This may be so , but the Cats Protection League was obviously not on the list . |
| 7 | For instance , accountants and solicitors would normally both enquire into the terms of any leases or major contracts held by the target , and it is obviously not in the investor 's interest to retain both these advisers to carry out the same examination . |
| 8 | It was highly embarrassing , a sort of indelicacy , to stand on the platform surrounded by a crowd of males who had to be polite but were obviously not in the mood for feminine society . |
| 9 | He was obviously not in the habit of apologising , and his rather florid complexion grew even more flushed . |
| 10 | The economy will settle down at point A , a position of neoclassical equilibrium from the point of view of firms , though obviously not from the point of view of households , which would prefer to be at point B. Households must therefore revise downwards their planned expenditure on goods in the light of their failure to sell all of their labour services . |
| 11 | But I had done so not in the belief that indefinite British occupation of the Zone was practicable but in protest against a treaty which purported to give Britain rights of reoccupation and a policy which proclaimed that Cyprus , Jordan and Kenya afforded adequate geographical alternatives . |
| 12 | For it is clear that she was an extraordinary woman ; only not in the manner of legend . |
| 13 | He says the basic idea is if you understand what 's going wrong then you can design any therapy sensibly not on the hit and miss basis it 's been done in the past . |
| 14 | It seems to demonstrate that secretaries instead of being secretaries expect to become executives , which was presumably not in the job terms of reference when they applied . |
| 15 | Working with hydroquinone and other fairly simple soluble substances , I have grown long needle crystals or whiskers ( Chapter 4 ) which thicken by the growth of sleeve-like surface layers which are geometrically not unlike the growth layers in a tree . |
| 16 | On such a view , in so far as pragmatics is concerned with context , it can be claimed that by definition pragmatics is not part of competence , and thus not within the scope of grammatical descriptions . |
| 17 | Ignoring the fact that it does n't seem to have much harm to British Telecommunications Plc or to the UK , France 's Minister for Posts & Telecommunications , Emile Zuccarelli , says that privatising France Telecom would hurt the company , its users and the entire nation : he particularly worries about service in sparsely-populated areas , a problem that appears to have been satisfactorily solved by regulation in the UK market ; privatisation of France Telecom is anyway not on the agenda of Valery Giscard d'Estaing . |
| 18 | It 's just not worth the candle . ’ |
| 19 | just not worth the hassle . |
| 20 | ‘ What will it take before you realise he 's just not worth the anguish ? ’ |
| 21 | It 's just not worth the risk . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm just not in the mood . ’ |
| 23 | The dress is very nice but once I 've got it on I realize I 'm just not in the mood for it . |
| 24 | But even so , la last night I got my legs wet , and I just went , Oh , never again , I 'm just not in the mood . |
| 25 | No not not down the street like it used to do . |
| 26 | Hello I think he 's gone and I assume we 're still not on the air . |
| 27 | Although the SSL continues to receive legal deposit material and some foreign periodicals on exchange via the Royal Society of Edinburgh , funding for purchases is still not at the level which the Trustees believe to be necessary for a major national scientific and business information resource . |
| 28 | Having burned their fingers two years ago , senior Ford executives will continue to press for change , but preferably not at the expense of another strike . |
| 29 | This requires a V8 110 Bell housing and first motion shaft fitting to the gearbox , a major strip down , wiring changes , new chassis mounts , hoses , exhaust , etc and so is probably not worth the effort |
| 30 | Even so , she had no means of recognising them and to wade through three hundred-odd pages in search of some unidentified reference would be a formidable task and probably not worth the effort . |