Example sentences of "and [not/n't] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Firstly , on the basis of the passage from Lord Bridge 's speech in Cocks v. Thanet District Council , with which the other four members of the Judicial Committee agreed , it is clearly the case that , having made their decision on 24 June 1983 [ viz that she was homeless , in priority need , and not intentionally homeless ] the council came under a statutory duty to secure that accommodation became available . |
| 2 | Only half convinced of the truth of my new thesis , and not wholly sure of where exactly I am , I can nevertheless recognize with some satisfaction that perhaps the most disconcerting thing a character in a novel can do is to announce that he is indeed a character in a novel . |
| 3 | Some generalisations proved possible , but only in a piecemeal and not wholly consistent fashion . |
| 4 | Admittedly , the situation I have just outlined is more apparent in the internal affairs of present-day societies — and even then principally in the Western democracies — than in the relations between nations , in spite of the persistent , and not wholly unsuccessful , attempts to create an effective framework of international law and procedures of negotiation . |
| 5 | The dependency of the attribute ‘ unit-points ’ is transitive ( via ‘ status ’ ) and not wholly dependent on the key attribute ‘ module ’ . |
| 6 | About a month later the buyer had the clutch repaired at a cost of £45 and claimed this sum from the seller , alleging that the car was not of merchantable quality and not reasonably fit for the purpose of being driven on the road . |
| 7 | It 's a reflection on sadomasochism , and on negation , and on the Underground throughout these novels , that the true gambler 's urge to lose is as strong as and not ultimately separable from its opposite . |
| 8 | Or , as he would put it , material causes too crude and not ultimately explanatory , mental causes more refined . ’ |
| 9 | A single person , or a couple without children , extremely busy and not overly fond of cooking will almost certainly prefer a functional , working room that looks and is efficient . |
| 10 | This is a headstock shape that works , I think ; it 's functional and not overly indebted to its forbears — modern , without being moderne , if you see what I mean . |
| 11 | They were therefore still needing the measurements of the energies of the neutrons , which were necessary as a proof that they were indeed neutrons produced by dd fusion and not somehow spurious . |
| 12 | My concern here is with the mythology that has accompanied these advances ; the metaphysical claims implicit — and not infrequently explicit — in the way they have been described . |
| 13 | ( We almost always met in the late mornings at his favourite café , always starting the day with a reviving bowl of café au lait , followed by another — and not infrequently another ! ) |
| 14 | Other branches of modern scholarship are represented by a gift from Professor Denys Hay of correspondence concerning , and drafts of an article on ‘ British Historians and the Beginnings of the Civil History of World War II ’ , 1971–76 ; and by papers of Sir Robert Grieve on the Clyde Valley Regional Plan and other planning matters , C.1945–64 ( on deposit and not yet available for consultation ) . |
| 15 | Following the painful and not yet complete absorption of Nixdorf , Siemens ' product line is a mishmash of iAPX-86 , 68000 family and MIPS Computer Systems Inc R-series processors , and Siemens fabricates the R-series , but the company also had a long-standing OEM relationship with Apollo Computer Inc that continued after that company was acquired by Hewlett-Packard . |
| 16 | He was thirty-six years old and not yet married , mainly because his trips to Africa — where most of his work had been done — had not left him much time to find a suitable wife , though others in similar positions seemed to have achieved wives and marriages , whether suitable or not . |
| 17 | Souness feels James , 22 , is still developing and not yet ready for a high-pressure European tie , where one away goal could be disastrous . |
| 18 | Though natural light was obviously not an amenity they thought much of , there are traces of glazing in a few of those infrequent and shapeless holes that howl in the wind ; elsewhere , of a primitive and not altogether unsuccessful stab at ferrocrete . |
| 19 | Stephen listened carefully to both , his head forward and down , like a horse 's hanging over a gate , which was a way he had and not altogether due to the curve in his spine . |
| 20 | In this astoundingly popular and not altogether unpersuasive book , Miss Edwards sponsors a pedagogical programme designed to diminish the influence of linguistically determined ways of seeing the world . |
| 21 | Their bitterness then , is understandable and not altogether unfounded . |
| 22 | For the discontented populations , the fact that the state outlawed political opposition and ruthlessly crushed popular uprisings served as a handy , and not altogether unconvincing , alibi for their political conformism . |
| 23 | The store had a peculiar and not altogether wholesome odour , a cross between a creek when the tide is out and the smell produced by the local sewage works . |
| 24 | Licensed dealers as well as stockbrokers were feeling the pinch of sudden market setbacks , and not altogether satisfactory trade figures . |
| 25 | He is large Minnie and loud and not altogether sensible often and I would have no other man in the house to manage him if need be . |
| 26 | Vehicles up to 3 wheels and not over 410 kg unladen . |
| 27 | The method is both simple and quick , but should only be used for estimations and not where accurate results are required . |
| 28 | And not even that |
| 29 | He had no water , only a rotten gull 's egg to eat and not even eight gramophone records to entertain him ! |
| 30 | ‘ And not even kosher . |