Example sentences of "[subord] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where not long ago the forest was thought of as an ‘ enemy ’ , it is now a source of life and livelihood . |
| 2 | The area had been built up where not long before , according to Defoe 's account , there were fields of grass with cows feeding in them . |
| 3 | They were to become the crucial factor which saved the Fens from total inundation , and although not generally adopted in Somerset , they fast became a typical feature of such wetland landscapes as the Lancashire Fylde and the Hull valley . |
| 4 | It 's more aerodynamic , the interior has been improved ( although not nearly as much as it should have been ) , the new engine has more power and yet is no thirstier , and the new suspension means safer , more predictable , handling . |
| 5 | Although not nearly so cold as the ceramic tiles of the hall , the linoleum beneath his bare feet had a chill that seemed to creep right through his body . |
| 6 | But just as women now demand for themselves greater freedom to express different facets of the self , so too do some men , although not nearly so many of them . |
| 7 | Although not particularly liberal on moral issues , it recognises that a climate of opinion in which people can discuss sexual and emotional matters will be one in which the birth control campaign is more likely to succeed . |
| 8 | As trappers , entire safety of mine depended on the young children & although not physically demanding , they had longest hrs & sat all day in darkness . |
| 9 | The neck feels solid and moderately chubby , although not immediately reminiscent of anything I 've played before . |
| 10 | Although not immediately apparent in studies of ‘ variable ’ plant species , it must be expected , in view of the non-uniform disperser fauna in tropical regions , that wide-ranging species will probably be shown to have such patterns . |
| 11 | Although not infrequently recorded in the 19th century , when it was possibly a fairly regular winter visitor , only six were recorded between 1900 and 1929 , and there has been only one since , at Selsey Bill on 30 July 1961 . |
| 12 | But the arguments soon broke out again , because the Aube wines , although not officially included as Champagne wines , were not officially excluded either . |
| 13 | Apart from the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe ( Poland , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Yugoslavia , Bulgaria , Rumania ) , Albania and China , more than twenty countries in the Third World subscribe to an official Marxist outlook ( including Afghanistan , Algeria , Angola , Cambodia , Congo , Cuba , Ethiopia , Guinea-Bissau , Iraq , Laos , Libya , Mauritania , Mozambique , North Korea , Yemen , Syria , Vietnam , the PLO in Palestine and SWAPO in South West Africa ) ; and many more , although not officially Marxist , espouse various forms of socialism derivative of Marxism . |
| 14 | Although not officially appointed locomotive superintendent until 1902 , Churchward was effectively in control of the locomotive , carriage , and wagon departments from 1899 and so continued until his retirement at the end of 1921 , with the new title of chief mechanical engineer from 1916 . |
| 15 | Although not officially made public , details from the report were released by the Caribbean News Agency which obtained a copy of the document . |
| 16 | Another set of official statistics showed the price of industrial products was slightly higher last month , although not high enough to affect forecasts of a continuing decline in consumer inflation . |
| 17 | Although not exactly stuck for words , nothing that he has said has yet entered the language . |
| 18 | Although not exactly dark , nor scary because Gloria was holding her tenderly , it was stuffy under the blanket and irritating to be covered over when you wanted to look out . |
| 19 | It does seem to be true that proteins of a given kind do evolve at a surprisingly , although not exactly , uniform rate . |
| 20 | Two miles to the north-west of this village near Redruth in the desolate former tin-mining region of Cornwall is Gwennap Pit which , although not exactly an industrial monument , has great significance in the social history of the local tinners , who were often ruthlessly exploited by their employers and were obvious targets for the message of Nonconformism . |
| 21 | One particularly helpful observation made by the report was the identification of three key features which , although not exactly prescriptions for success , are certainly aspects that need to be incorporated . |
| 22 | Although not exactly comparable in sound , the superb ‘ Reach For Me ’ from the gloriously monikered Funky Green Dogs From Outer Space , is somewhat reminiscent of Sandee 's 1988 club/dub monster ‘ Notice Me ’ . |
| 23 | Pogo was six foot two and , although not exactly good-looking , he had a pleasant , friendly face and was a keen athlete . |
| 24 | But her radio was in place , her maps and street guide and other papers were still present although not exactly as she had left them . |
| 25 | It was the end of his working day , and although not exactly free of preoccupation ( he would be telephoning Paul Lane the moment he got in ) , he wanted some time to himself . |
| 26 | Government models of the economy have their counterpart in private sector models of the economy which , although not exactly the same , nevertheless exhibit much the same features . |
| 27 | Although not exactly a religious person , she was pained to think that a senior member of the Church of England should get ( albeit by moonlight ) a good glimpse of her sexual organs in their present somewhat engorged state . |
| 28 | In about the middle of the eighteenth century , John Zoffany , a portrait painter , arrived in England , and although not regularly accepted at first , he became friendly with Garrick and other actors which lifted his prospects , so he took a lease of a house called ‘ London Style ’ , which was set back from the north bank of the River Thames , just east of Kew Bridge , but later his wife and children occupied a house on the river front on Strand-on-the-Green , which house was named after the painter . |
| 29 | It also restated downward — although not drastically , previously reported results for fiscal years to June 1992 and 1991 , to reflect the fact that customers that bought Sequoia gear were not required to pay for some kit until it was resold to end-users . |
| 30 | In some cases this is associated with ( although not provenly due to ) a hormonal imbalance which gives an ambiguous overall appearance . |