Example sentences of "not [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarlet was not altogether correct in her estimation of her friend 's open nature . |
| 2 | This is not altogether surprising considering the factors militating against their preservation — break-up of skeletons after death , the necessity to have a skeleton incorporated with sediment , and the activities of predatory and scavenging animals to destroy remains . |
| 3 | While appreciating the situation , he said that it was not altogether surprising considering the tragic circumstances . |
| 4 | Canada 's action is not altogether surprising in view of her dubious record on other conservation issues , but it is sad to see the proposals coming from the US . |
| 5 | Climbers are often confused with ramblers , which is perhaps not altogether surprising in view of their similarities , and is not helped by the practice in many nursery catalogues and garden centres of grouping the two together . |
| 6 | I was not altogether unhappy at the Publicity Printers during those early pioneer days . |
| 7 | Then Stella , perceptive of his tone if not altogether sure of his argument , abandoned her thumb-sucking . |
| 8 | But Floy said , in an expressionless tone , ‘ Do go on , ’ and Caspar looked at Floy doubtfully , because he was not altogether sure of Floy yet and he had the feeling that Floy might very well be thinking and assessing and generally not revealing all his feelings . |
| 9 | However , the emphasis on companionship and sexual harmony was not altogether compatible with the sanctity of marriage , and the contradiction between the importance attached to the quality of the sexual act and the celebration of family life continued to deepen in the years following World War II . |
| 10 | I was not altogether explicit about it to myself at first , but the tactics clarified themselves in my mind . |
| 11 | With its careful experiments and its use of statistics the Society was , however , doing work not altogether remote from experimental psychology . |
| 12 | The terms ‘ Royal ’ and ‘ King ’ are perhaps not altogether appropriate for what would have been no more than tribal chieftains . |
| 13 | I fancy moreover that this feeling of unreality , which obtruded itself on me at intervals , exists permanently among the majority of the new Imperial household , and is not altogether absent from the minds of the Emperor and the Empress themselves though they play their roles with consummate skill and ease , particularly the Empress . |
| 14 | Grunte , not altogether convinced of its provenance , showed it to Marjorie over supper ( gammon and pineapple , and a bottle of Soave ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But this is not altogether relevant for although Cordelia is essentially a fine character and her sisters mainly corrupt , there are the opposites ‘ good ’ and ‘ evil ’ in both of them . |
| 17 | The Athenian expedition against Syracuse was thus , as we shall see , not altogether hopeless in its aims , which certainly included the manipulation of the hatred of these groups for each other . |
| 18 | Even his charge of boring repetition is difficult to substantiate objectively : boredom is in the mind of the beholder and you doubtless could find many people who have enjoyed A la Recherche du Temps Perdu , a work not altogether renowned for its brevity or conciseness . |
| 19 | It is not altogether clear to what extent these figures reflect high non-completion rates , particularly in the first year , or whether they reflect continuing problems which some groups of students experience throughout their careers in higher education . |
| 20 | It is clear from these examples that and on the one hand and and on the other were not , or came not to be , co-extensive , the former pair being , or becoming , confined to specific grades of medreses , the latter retaining , or developing , a wider geographical significance whose Importance is not altogether clear beyond the fact that it was impossible to get very far in the hierarchy without having taught in the . |
| 21 | One suspects that the writers were not altogether clear in their own minds ; the monk of Croyland , for all his extravagant remarks about the northerners , also spoke in terms of the ‘ sovereignty of England ’ , when describing a prophecy among the Welsh , whom he certainly regarded as different , that they would recover it from the English , although they failed to do so in 1469 ( 14 , p.543 ) . |
| 22 | He is not altogether happy with what he is doing . |
| 23 | Mr Schuller 's local congregation is not altogether happy with his imperial style and church finances are suffering . |
| 24 | The parish council were not altogether happy with the road layout around the new pelican crossing , Mr. Hobbs reported . |
| 25 | Ted was not altogether happy at the prospect of explaining to her how he came to be covered with mud down the front of his suit . |
| 26 | ‘ It was ’ , observes Marchbank , ‘ the Bucky Fuller version of Architectural Review : ’ Bizarrely , but appropriately for the times , the management wanted AD to look like Oz and Marchbank had gone some way to meet their specifications , but was not altogether happy in his work . |
| 27 | On reaching the City of Verdun itself , French troops just out of the line experienced a sensation not altogether different from the delight of the Germans transported to Alsace 's Elysian Fields . |
| 28 | She was not altogether surprised by her father-in-law 's absence , because right from the start he had taken particular pleasure in taunting her in this way . |
| 29 | While the United States is not altogether unique in this regard , it should be noted that the rhetoric of the classroom tends to be ‘ progressive and liberal ’ while the practice tends to remain ‘ traditional and conservative ’ . |
| 30 | The King 's Private Secretary , Lord Stamfordham , wrote to MacDonald to say that the King was ‘ profoundly impressed with Sir Arthur Balfour 's letter to you — his review of the critical condition of affairs will , in His Majesty 's opinion , bring home to his Ministers that the time has come when even emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity which , as Sir Arthur Balfour states , is not altogether incompatible with that of the Great War . |