Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Many prove to be misfits , too honest for their job , or not enough on the ball to cope with its demands .
2 This possibility , although not yet on the horizon of scientific advances , is already being proclaimed as a new scourge of humankind .
3 The Secretary 's office had to double as a bridge room ( to save coal ) , and the subscription to Illustrated Sporting was cancelled , although not yet to The Tatler ! ’
4 The Staffordshire commission of 1409–14 contained three lawyers , all active members of it , and eight gentry , who again played a part in other spheres of local government , mostly although not exclusively within the shire ( 31 , pp.340–1 , 401–2 ) .
5 Currently places within airlines are few and far between , but virtually all employable aircrew made jobless by the airline failures of the last few years have found new positions , although not always within the UK .
6 There has been a tendency in recent years for the amount of applied research in the earth sciences to increase , although not noticeably at the expense of the fieldwork-based areal studies .
7 If b 1.8 , a 2x2 or larger cluster of D will continue to grow at the corners ( although not necessarily along the edges , for large squares ) ; for b 1.8 , big D clusters shrink .
8 By convention these will all be members of Parliament although not necessarily from the House of Commons .
9 One man died on board the Reine Mathilde when it caught fire on April 9 , sailing between Caen in France and Portsmouth , England , although not directly as a result of the fire ; arson was not suspected .
10 The view that will be taken is that it does matter very much , although not quite in the way in which previous writers about environmental doom have envisaged .
11 Russ looked like a school master , although not quite in the stereotype of a middle class school teacher .
12 When Henry Homer wrote this in 1767 the canal age was in its infancy , but he predicted that not only by the turnpikes but with the aid of " an even more valuable project of increasing inland navigation , a facility of communication is soon likely to be established from every part of the Island to the sea and from the several places on it to each other " .
13 The traditional bourgeois ethic , puritan or secular , had ascribed this to moral or spiritual feebleness rather than to lack of intellect , for it was evident that not much in the way of brains was needed for success in business , and conversely that mere brains did not guarantee wealth and still less ‘ sound ’ views .
14 It was noted at the start of the chapter that not least among the needs of the physically disabled was the need for understanding and true acceptance in society .
15 It is only at the wedding that the two people most concerned are actually fully involved in the decision to have a religious ceremony , albeit not always as a result of a happy consensus , but nevertheless under pressure from some influence which inculcates the belief that some benefit will accrue to the marriage from the involvement of a believed-in ‘ god ’ .
16 Capital Radio , the other UK giant of the independents , has already split its frequencies , and before long all nine quoted independent stations are expected do so , albeit not always around the clock .
17 Collectively , the population of Britain perform millions of acts every day during their waking hours , yet the net result of all this is not chaos and confusion , but a reasonable approximation of order : motorists drive on the left-hand side of the road , not on the right ; shoppers offer coins and banknotes , cheques and cheque cards in exchange for goods and services , not goats and chickens or nothing at all ; love-making takes place indoors in bedrooms , and not outside on the pavement .
18 It is almost impossible to recreate a wedding bouquet completely accurately , as the original bouquet is three-dimensional and not flat like the picture .
19 Instead I consoled myself that Ellen would be pleased , and a pleased Ellen might become my shipmate all the way around the world , so really , I told myself , I was not doing this for the senator 's happiness , and not even for the twins , but for my own , and so I shook the senator 's hand .
20 He had treated her exactly as he 'd said he would , and not even for an instant had Kate had even a bat 's twinkling that he thought of her as an attractive woman .
21 But the shock is nothing to their profound distaste at the circular photocopy letter telling me it was NO — not even signed and not even on a sheet of proper printed letterhead — for a job marketing one of the oldest and most prestigious and national professional bodies !
22 And not even in the land of the troubadours were husbands more tolerant .
23 Twenty companies moved this year , 49 are set to go by 1993 and another 23 are considering moving — and not just to the suburbs .
24 However , we will find it of much more use in the context here to conceive of a knowledge worker as someone who actually adds value to the message itself , and not just to the message 's package , by processes of analysis , judgement , and higher-level decision making .
25 A pioneer in this department is Ed Kienholz , who some years ago became Ed and Nancy Kienholz and not just on the marriage certificate .
26 This is why , before you embark on any kind of anti-drug crusade with your children , you have to be clear where you stand — and not just on the subject of heroin .
27 My right hon. Friend is to be congratulated on showing that that can happen , and that a further step can be taken towards ’ ever closer union ’ on an intergovernmental basis , and not just on the basis of the treaty of Rome .
28 They 're cashing in , but at least they 're cashing in on the locals and not just on the Leeds .
29 It was obviously a popular haunt — and not just with the boating fraternity — so it was some while before their food was brought to them .
30 As was pointed out earlier , in Chapter 5 , this crime has consequences for mankind as a whole , and not just for the individual in relationship to their own father .
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