Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 655 ‘ leaf-spring ’ Cobras built ( including the 75 original 260s ) , only 61 were officially listed as being for European consumption , and of course not even all of those were for Britain . |
| 2 | Community policies , and expenditures upon them are of course not perfectly substitutable for alternative national policies . |
| 3 | These contrasting forms of liberty of the individual will and the corporate body , which we may call Anselmian and Gregorian , were of course not mutually exclusive . |
| 4 | Our agitations were of course not so much for ourselves , for we were all comfortably enough off — that is to say we could afford a bottle of wine every now and then and very few of us rose with the dawn and laboured until nightfall — but sprang from a burning sense of general injustice or a generalized sense of burning injustice , whichever quote 's the best or whichever your readers prefer . |
| 5 | More often , perhaps , some kind of friendship not closely akin to modern ideas of marriage subsisted between husband and wife , and many men ( in particular ) were unfaithful . |
| 6 | What is clear , however , is that monitoring is rarely a simple exercise , that the time-scales of the sponsors of monitoring and environmental research are rarely long term though most science is inevitably of this nature and that the increasingly multinational nature of such work necessitates a degree of management not always present in local or nationally based schemes . |
| 7 | To this need the underclass responds , and it makes urban life at the comfortable levels of well-being not only pleasant but possible . |
| 8 | The later , more sophisticated theories tended to view the question of salvation not so much as God winning back the world from the Evil One and reconciling humanity in himself , but in terms of a legal arrangement entered into by God and man because of the perfect death of the sacrificial Lamb : God the lawgiver lets off sinners , as it were , because of Christ 's substitution . |
| 9 | That would be particularly inappropriate having regard to the considerable number of instances which exist of Parliament having legislated in various fields to define the circumstances under which payments of tax not lawfully due may be recovered , and also in what situations and upon what terms interest on overpayments of tax may be paid . |
| 10 | By using computer simulations , researchers can rapidly acquire a body of knowledge not previously available to them through traditional laboratory methods , and explore chemical events that would otherwise be too dangerous , speculative or costly to pursue . |
| 11 | The provision of transport may uncover an untapped source of recruitment not previously available . |
| 12 | On that occasion he had been treated with a degree of courtesy not far short of deference and he had subconsciously expected the same of his interview with Chief Inspector Golding . |
| 13 | There has been a big investment in a high-speed fibre optic network , which permits very high speeds of communication not formerly feasible . |
| 14 | Early Awakening to the Pleasures of Life Not Purely Physical |
| 15 | They open up levels of reality not easily accessible to the more literal approach and relate to elements within the depth of man 's soul . |
| 16 | For example , Revill states that ‘ there is a great need for proper evaluation of the various teaching methods adopted in the library ’ , and Lubans has pointed out , in 1972 , that ‘ the results of evaluation not only present possible alternatives for better programmes but should also provide standards of performance for such instruction ’ . |
| 17 | His own system of classification involved a belief in the objective reality of both species and higher groupings — in fact , a kind of Platonism not so different from that of Forbes and Owen . |
| 18 | However , it is generally difficult and , for the purposes of translation not particularly helpful , to attempt to draw a line between what is linguistic or textual and what is extra-linguistic or situational . |
| 19 | To express the awkwardness of the Spartan position Thucydides uses awkward language ( i.88 ) : the Spartans voted , he says , that the ‘ libations ’ had been broken and took a decision for war not so much because they were persuaded by the arguments of their allies as because they were afraid of the growth of Athenian power . |
| 20 | Companies of men on foot , with armour not so heavy . |
| 21 | I was in love before I left England and the hope of marriage was such a spur that with help from the two Williams , I was able to pass with distinction not only two , but three exams . |
| 22 | The study of the English economy in the late Middle Ages shows that there were wide discrepancies of fortune between different parts of the country , and that any attempt to understand its development must take into consideration not only such general factors as population change and the effects of war but also the immediate local factors which determined why one area could outstrip another in prosperity or decline . |
| 23 | In developing such trees we have to take into account not only component failures but also human factors , as well as equipment that is out of action for maintenance or tests . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Easy-Carve is in fact not as noisy as one might imagine , but it is not necessarily a tool I 'd want to use for long stretches . |
| 27 | It is often said that the tonic syllable can be identified because it is the only syllable in the tone-unit that carries a movement in pitch ; this is in fact not always true . |
| 28 | in fact not much bigger than that |
| 29 | The technical information disclosure requirement was in fact not much different from normal IBM practice . |
| 30 | My conclusion of the strength of her faith is that her convictions are in fact not so deep-seated or so fundamental as to constitute an immutable decision by her as to her way of life — or her way of death . |