Example sentences of "and not without " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for Pound it was a game , a super-chess game , and not without its Machiavellian elements . |
| 2 | Press speculation ran Patrick Jenkin as Howe 's likeliest heir and not without reason . |
| 3 | Parachuting was still in its infancy , and not without accidents . |
| 4 | For I too had been tainted , and not without blemish . |
| 5 | The organisation was complex and not without internal conflict . |
| 6 | THE purging of dissidents from any organisation is widely known as a ‘ night of the long knives ’ — and not without good reason . |
| 7 | The collectivizing force of women is a strong one , and not without its problems . |
| 8 | The Violet People are all charging guitars , sort of power pop with boggly eyes , and not without charm . |
| 9 | Still the biggest selling independent single of all time , and not without reason . |
| 10 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , whose Rome Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith co-ordinated the drafting of the documents , described it as a response to the ‘ thirst for truth and certainty ’ , but admitted that the death penalty references were ‘ discussed at length , and not without difficulty ’ . |
| 11 | He had tried experimentally and not without success in the past , but was needed more often to revert to orthodox seam . |
| 12 | This strategy assumes that a reciprocal rebalancing of power in the work' group will occur through the emergence of maintenance behaviours ; in fact , a very different set of relationships may emerge , and not without some intra-group conflict . |
| 13 | And not without good reason . |
| 14 | And not without cause . |
| 15 | Of her other novels , Nothing But Propaganda ( 1946 ) and Not Without Fantasy ( 1947 ) , set in wartime Britain and Russia , were perhaps the most interesting . |
| 16 | There was , as we have seen , much interest in the copper veins , and not without surprise we find this continued into the 1700's . |
| 17 | He turned to a small cabinet mounted high on the kitchen wall , and in a moment had presented her with a glass of water and two white capsules that she swallowed obediently and not without relief . |
| 18 | She had spoken eloquently — and not without quoting American authors — of the opportunities facing Britain in 1988 , of Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's remarkable drive to revive the economy , and at the same time of the considerable drawing in of horns to which the University had been forced . |
| 19 | Instead she was holed up for goodness knew how long with a man who clearly despised her — and not without reason , she admitted silently , leaning her forehead against the cold glass of the window . |
| 20 | In the end , and not without great misgivings , she decided to wear a voile dress printed with blue and gold flowers . |
| 21 | At times it came very near but , narrowly and not without some years of great misery for most of the labouring population , it was averted . |
| 22 | Traditional readings of the Shipman 's Tale , however , suppose the husband to be a , or even the , target figure , and not without reason . |
| 23 | They 'd heard her a little at rehearsal , but not properly , not consistently , and not without interruption and background noise . |
| 24 | So big a man is never going to be exactly nippy , but he is not slow and not without ball-sense . |