Example sentences of "which not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Greek philosophy the physical world had the status of a deity to be feared and worshipped , which not surprisingly was a great constraint to the development of technology and the exercise of dominion over nature . |
| 2 | ‘ Bored with my company already ? ’ — which not surprisingly Stuart took the wrong way . |
| 3 | Women were defined not only by convention and religion but by ineffective birth control , fear of venereal disease , and by sexual ignorance , which not surprisingly , the physician and lecturer , Sir James Paget , found to be ‘ very common among well educated women ’ . |
| 4 | What does emerge beyond dispute is the primacy of large-scale cloth making as the great national industry and by far the most important export , leaving the rest more or less nowhere , as attested by the massive wealth of many clothiers and the prosperity — albeit a brittle one — of the workers in the major textile districts : high earnings in Suffolk and Gloucestershire at least resulting in a disposable surplus of income which not infrequently enabled artificers to accumulate sufficient goods for assessment , in contrast to agricultural labourers , who seldom had anything but their wages to be taxed on . |
| 5 | For this is a matter on which not just doctors or lawyers , but all of us , must have our say and our way . |
| 6 | She had a thin , satisfied smile on her face , which not even a few smirks and elbow nudgings among those ladies who had been at the tea could banish . |
| 7 | Of course the Frótha-frith could have been just an accident , a result of the Incarnation which not even virtuous pagans knew about . |
| 8 | A great many liberal writers , Dworkin included , would support just such a proposition which is consistent with Rawls 's well-known thesis that the individual , and particularly the least well-off , do have certain economic rights against the state , founded on justice , which not even the welfare of society as a whole can override . |
| 9 | Then there is a Prado disperso , made up of works which not even the store-rooms have space for , and which are on loan to embassies , universities , provincial town halls and the like . |
| 10 | Even then there were some books for which not even the critical number was enough , and nothing less than the whole text had to be sampled to determine its average readability . |
| 11 | A situation of which not even she could guess the outcome ? |
| 12 | At the same time rural transport has been caught in a vicious circle of declining demand and rising fares which not even the provision of subsidies has been able to break . |
| 13 | The general conclusion of the new classical macroeconomics is that the most that the monetary authorities can hope to achieve by shifting unexpectedly from one policy rule to another is to increase the variance of output around its given mean value of y * ; , an objective which not even the most unrepentant policy activist would dream of advocating . |
| 14 | This is when those photographs are taken and published with their phoney captions which not unnaturally wring the hearts of the uninitiated . |
| 15 | Until a few years ago , the opportunity to purchase AVCs was only available to members of occupational schemes that offered AVC facilities , which not all did . |
| 16 | Under Article 28 ( a ) of the Convention the Assembly of the Organisation was to elect the Maritime Safety Committee from the ‘ governments of those nations having an important interest in maritime safety of which not less than eight shall be the largest ship-owning nations … |
| 17 | That the Corporation do maintain a good and efficient School , whereof a Free School , at which not less than 30 boys are to be educated , shall form apart . |
| 18 | The professor shall lecture , or hold classes , in two at least of the three university terms and shall give at least thirty-six lectures or classes in all and not less than twelve in each of two terms , of which not less than sixteen must be lectures . |
| 19 | A tenancy granted for a term of years certain of which not less than three years remain unexpired is an owner 's interest for the purpose of serving blight notices ( Town and Country Planning Act 1990 , s168 ) . |
| 20 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 21 | It is a system which not merely connived at nepotism , it depended upon it . |
| 22 | The well-being of the community — largely composed of dairy-farmers — as a whole was bound up in the extensive municipal common lands , the existence of which not merely helped the poor but put a limit on the land hunger of the richer peasants . |
| 23 | The University Labour Federation was the only socialist society affiliated to the Labour Party which not merely allowed , but encouraged , Communists to become members . |
| 24 | Which not too surprisingly in my view led to a misunderstanding which , while ultimately regrettable , was surely purged of culpability on the part of the hapless instructor . |
| 25 | Such entertainments by Indians at stations which not so long earlier they had attacked became commonplace . |
| 26 | Motability has arranged special schemes with motor manufacturers , wheelchair manufacturers , insurance brokers , and other so that today a variety of schemes can be offered which not only help disabled people become mobile but also give them a chance to be truly independent . |
| 27 | He can buy a large tube of Autumnola , the 2-in-1 action cream which not only reduces the risk of bruising to a minimum , but has anti-toxic qualities proof against the most virulent poisoning from autumnal pests . ’ |
| 28 | This is a welcome and encouraging trend which not only ensures that the investment of Branch funds complies with the Trustee Investment Acts , but provides Branches with an excellent return on their money and assists management of the Association 's cash flow . |
| 29 | The facility with which not only politicians but people who should know better argue for education in the name of economic growth is frightening . |
| 30 | Defenders of the scale of British commitments , then and more recently , have thus been able to ignore the extent to which not only consumption but also production and productive efficiency were inhibited by the dollar shortage — both directly , by restricting currency available for imported capital equipment , and indirectly , by diverting domestic output of such equipment into dollar markets . |