Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv] [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poor man frantically tried to bargain for his reinstatement , admitting that he had been not altogether sober and apologising for making a resignation he did not want . |
| 2 | A further major problem associated with the use of the network variable is that it is most readily operationalized to study speakers whose networks are of a relatively closeknit type and can not easily handle socially and geographically mobile speakers whose personal network ties are not predominantly dense or multiplex ; yet , such persons make up a substantial proportion of the population in a post-industrial society . |
| 3 | Reincarnation and re-creation would be crucial to The Waste Land where Buddhist ideas would have an important place and where various voices of the dead , from that of Dante to that of Mayne Reid , would play their part in a sort of literary metempsychosis , not entirely unlike that used by Joyce in Ulysses , which Eliot was reading at the time . |
| 4 | Supposing the tumour in my lungs was not entirely new but had started five months ago , before I went onto my diet , took my vitamins or began my visualizations ? |
| 5 | It is not entirely clear whether touching is a battery , where the victim has indicated that he does not wish to be touched . |
| 6 | They were not entirely satisfactory and had a tendency to derail on the very sharp corner at Pitlake . |
| 7 | The increase of strength with thinness was not entirely smooth but showed a certain amount of scatter or variability . |
| 8 | Because of the degree of processing involved , hop extracts are not necessarily cheaper than using whole hops . |
| 9 | They are not necessarily extravagant but devote themselves to appearance as to a very demanding goddess whose exigencies may account for that well-kempt , bad tempered look most of them adopt . |
| 10 | It 's not especially awful but lacks any real bite or hookline — and therefore looks like a sinker . |
| 11 | It 's not especially awful but lacks any real bite or hookline — and therefore looks like a sinker . |
| 12 | If , in addition , I were accompanied by his fifteen soldiers I believed we should be too strong a party to invite attack , while not so strong as to alarm and provoke the tribes . |
| 13 | There was the contact with friendly adults , but not so close as to suggest to the children that their real parents were being supplanted — a common resentment in foster homes . |
| 14 | Though not so revolutionary as to require years of testing and modification ( and run the risk of ultimate rejection as in the case of the Advanced Passenger Train ) . |
| 15 | She chose a slightly flared skirt of fawn flannel , plain white silk shirt with a demurely high neckline , a jacket in soft pastel-brown tweed with a standing collar , absolutely plain but very expensive Italian court shoes and a matching handbag that was small enough to be ladylike but not so small as to seem frivolous . |
| 16 | His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation . |
| 17 | Quite a lot of guesswork and estimation has to go into this , but the margins of error are not so great as to nullify the whole enterprise . |
| 18 | However , they 're not so stupid as to allow the adventurers to forge such a document right in front of them and get away with it . |
| 19 | OD1 proved itself much more like the classic Marshall sound , with enough dirt to make things ballsy , but not so much that backing off the guitar did n't clean up the tone for real blues rhythm playing and crunchy Bryan Adams-type chords . |
| 20 | Aunt Sarah did not so much as lift her head from the rug she was making , but Ruth watched the way the rug hook stabbed the canvas with increased speed and vigour , as if she wanted to hurt it , and Ruth knew that her aunt was as tense as she was herself . |
| 21 | Again , we see the need for flexibility in the control structure , with each component being given enough free rein to contribute fully , but not so much as to force it to take decisions for which it , on its own , has insufficient evidence . |
| 22 | You need not so much as move a company across the Glen to fetch them down . |
| 23 | Under cover of buying a magazine from the stall opposite , Isabel glanced over , and then stared more persistently , for he had not seen her , was not so much as looking up from his counting . |
| 24 | It shows enough to reveal the nature and genuineness of the reality , but not so much as to overwhelm . |
| 25 | For the duration of the war , British and American diplomats performed a nerve-racking balancing act , providing just enough credit and material aid ( especially grain and petroleum ) to prevent Franco from going over completely to the Axis , but not so much as to enable him to become strong enough to dispense with maintaining relations with them . |
| 26 | Having been primed by Draper back in the hotel room on who played or produced what , Branson would present himself with a box of tapes and play just one track by each artist ; enough to whet the appetite , but not so much as to test his customer 's patience — or indeed Branson 's own musical knowledge . |
| 27 | But by this time the Crown was assessing the royal forests , not so much as hunting preserves but as sources of timber , especially for ship-building . |
| 28 | In this context , regulations were , in the main , perceived not so much as serving the public interest but as representing ‘ capture ’ of the economic system by specific groups serving their own self-interest , reducing economic welfare and inhibiting economic development . |
| 29 | Isambard had not so much as looked round . |
| 30 | They did not so much as consider that their physical safety could be at risk . |