Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] not [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning |
| 2 | It was becoming clear that not only Socialist Unity Party ( PSU — the renamed Socialist Party still generally referred to as the PSI ) officials and politicians were involved . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It seems as if the Opposition flounder almost every day in their responses to the charges and questions that we put to them , and I very much hope that they will clarify their position on national insurance charges on high and not so high incomes — and on whether any increases will be phased in . |
| 5 | Although many of his lyrics have been in the sexist style known as slackness ( ironically , incredibly popular amongst women in Jamaica ) Shabba has also rhymed on cultural if not overtly political topics . |
| 6 | Rolling over was a painful if not too difficult manoeuvre , but , even with Travis helping all he could , it was an exhausting process trying to find his pocket and reach into it when she could only go by touch . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As with many aspects of any redistributive exercise , sensitivity calculations are an acceptable if not always convincing way forward . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , The Scotsman 's impressive survey of values among young people this week has produced some interesting if not particularly comforting facts . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Linked to this but not directly invisible earnings is another £1.9 billion paid to British Carriers . |
| 12 | p/b £7.95 Reliable but not very inspiring trot through the architecture of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | under 30 but not under 25 years of age £125 |
| 14 | Pamela Walford ( Mrs Vandyke-Prince ) has had an interesting but not always easy life . |
| 15 | Since the tomato , being a member of the Solanaceae tribe which includes also the poisonous nightshades , was long regarded as a dangerous if not actually deadly fruit ( the potato and the aubergine , also of the Solanaceae family , have in their time suffered from the same associations ) presumably the mixture of vinegar and spices used in the early sauces were regarded as safety-devices against the possibly toxic effects of the fruit itself . |
| 16 | He was a fanatical and not very competent golfer and a member of the Royal Bucks Club . |
| 17 | The church became the subject of incredulous and not necessarily friendly discussion , but it was a kind of publicity from which the church came to gain recruits . |
| 18 | Read typical and not so typical letter fare from people just like you — readers . |
| 19 | That you 're greeted in the first place with erm either silence or some vague and not singularly hopeful mutter , but more importantly with a curious facial expression mingled between erm dread and contempt , sort of thing you 'd expect as if you 'd said you were a sorcerer . |
| 20 | The duty of loyalty has generally been invoked to prevent directors from having a personal financial interest in a decision , whilst the duty to act not for any improper purpose has sometimes been invoked to rule out decisions where directors have some other sort of personal but not directly financial interest in the decision . |
| 21 | In fact , in so far as one can detect a firm line in his early Algerian policy , it was a policy which aimed to achieve association — i.e. cooperation between France and a more autonomous but not fully independent Algeria . |
| 22 | This passed and on 6 August the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima , killing outright some 80 000 people and exposing many thousands more to the longer-term but not less deadly effects of radiation . |
| 23 | The findings should indicate whether children can use language to describe fictional and not just actual situations . |
| 24 | Yet she was itching to move to the metropolis and bombarded her parents with subtle and not so subtle requests . |
| 25 | One of this periodical 's editors , the radical journalist Nikolai Chernyshevskii , had been behind the publication of Kavelin 's work in The Contemporary and was finding many subtle and not so subtle ways to advance reform in the St Petersburg press . |
| 26 | The self is always a more or less precarious and conflictual construction out of , and compromise between , conflicting and not always conscious desires and experiences , which are born out of the ambivalences and contradictions in human experience and relationships with others . |
| 27 | And like the muffled grinding of some small , expensive part of your motor which announces unhappiness in the bearings , your body can only make its inner unease known by strange and not easily intelligible signs . |
| 28 | An excellent pub catering for the sedate , the posh and not so posh residents of select Newington . |
| 29 | That , that is the problem I ca n't change that here that and not particularly that problem back up usually here Right , it 's important to see this , so can we have a quick ten minute break and I want somebody |
| 30 | Such is the general expectation that married couples will have children that those who do not want them , or want to put parenthood on a few more years , or sadly learn that they can not conceive , find themselves having to respond to veiled or not so veiled queries . |