Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [not/n't] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No prison could run for long if not for the fact that most prisoners most of the time are prepared simply to cooperate with the staff and ‘ do their bird ’ . |
| 2 | But sportsmen must retire ; their bones insist upon it , and most try to do so if not at the height of their powers — that is too much to ask , no matter how determined the vows of youth — at any rate a day before they are asked to go rather than a day after . |
| 3 | In the 1988 Budget this was changed to apply to the residence only and not to the individual . |
| 4 | Digestion occurs in approximately equal numbers at the tips of the incisors and along their lengths , 32 per cent at the tips only , 36 per cent at both the tips and along the lengths of the incisors , and 32 per cent along the lengths only and not at the tips . |
| 5 | For a time teachers of literature could assume that they were in but not of the academy , and keep a healthy distance from institutional pressures . |
| 6 | 29 ( 2 ) If the person in possession of the land … acknowledges the title of the person to whom the right of action has accrued — ( a ) the right shall be treated as having accrued on and not before the date of the acknowledgment … |
| 7 | Doctors at King 's College Hospital , London , believe that Aisling Barnett , 35 , who suffered liver failure after reacting to a drug prescribed after the birth of her daughter , would have died yesterday if not for the operation . |
| 8 | At present money received in roubles from concerts can be spent on food , hotels , transport , presents , etc. but not for the Dublin-Moscow flight . |
| 9 | Both will be available for Fir Park tomorrow night and that is the value of a strong pool as well as a points cushion that can be leaned on but not to the stage of deflation . |
| 10 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 11 | The choice of method of digitizing depends more often than not on the level of funding available . |
| 12 | Large examples are known , however , more often than not on the fringes of the main occupied areas , as at Ashton , Baldock , Bath , Irchester and Water Newton . |
| 13 | Because the winning of seats under the STV depends more often than not on the transfer of votes from one candidate to another of the same patty , it is particularly important that they should campaign unanimously . |
| 14 | And when this happy moment arrived , it was crowned with legitimacy , because like many tribal societies the public school was a gerontocracy-an important fact obscured more often than not in the literature by concentration on the oligarchic aspect of the power exercised by favoured groups of senior boys : prefects , athletes , bloods , in slightly differing proportions according to the slightly differing character of the individual schools , but all essentially distinguished by seniority . |
| 15 | Nan 's no fool , and our precise Mr Peeble , who I am sure is quite used to pregnancies , will have detected something before now if not from the narration he has heard above his head over the past days . |
| 16 | Requests which arise after off-duty rosters are complete should be dealt with sympathetically but not at the expense of patients or other staff . |
| 17 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 18 | But the Bratianu family abided as often as not by the principles of its imported Western liberalism as its inherited clannishness . |
| 19 | Go , for example , to a meeting of the European Space Agency and the place will be crawling with European technical journalists with only a few desultory Brits , as often as not from the show-biz pages . |
| 20 | Where land is registered , right gained by adverse possession amounts to an overriding interest , and defeats a purchaser even if not on the register . |
| 21 | It seems that personal equity plans are here to stay — even if not in the form that Nigel Lawson intended . |
| 22 | STEPHEN MANSFIELD Focus of attention : Shareholders keep the Stakis chief executive , David Michels , in sight — even when not inside the meeting |
| 23 | Do you think it would be a good idea to privatize planning control in the sense of letting it be up to developers to choose whether they should go ahead or not on the basis of what they conceive to be constraints , or that that should be within the entire realm of the local planning authority ? |
| 24 | In 1557 the Tiber changed its course and Ostia Antica ( as it is termed to differentiate it from the modern Lido town ) is now a few kilometres inland and not on the riverside any more . |
| 25 | Special Service may be defined as an action ranging between but not including the work of the single agent on the one hand , and on the other , the full-scale combined operation . |
| 26 | We must face the issue seriously and not in the way in which the Prime Minister faced the issue at Harare when he said that he would write off some of the debts in return for the acceptance of an economic model imposed by the International Monetary Fund , and say that there has to be a write-off of debt . |
| 27 | So I think the inescapable logic of of this and I think this was accepted by and it 's accepted by the County Surveyor certainly if not by the County Planning Officer , is that the new settlement for access reasons , should be on the A sixty four north east corridor . |