Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [conj] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
| 2 | Most women who have come , either as mums or as mums-to-be , have found the group useful for social & emotional support and also for practical swapping of ideas and solutions for the minor and not so minor problems we all have as new mums . |
| 3 | Most women who have come , either as new mums or as mums to be , have found the group useful for social & emotional support and also for practical swapping of ideas and solutions for the minor and not so minor problems we all have as new mums . |
| 4 | With this method all the people who wish to be involved in the selection of a candidate do so one after the other and not as one unwieldy group . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Thus we might look around and point to something red and say " This is coloured red " ; and then , perhaps , in order to forestall any tendency to mistake the word for the name of a particular shade of red , gesture towards another thing of a similar but not quite the same hue , and add " And that is red too " . |
| 7 | Best of a full but not very dis tinguished rental month ( the blockbusters are coming in November , leading with Rain Man , Roger Rabbit , Dangerous Liaisons and Mississippi Burning ) is Parents ( 18 Vestron ) , which is simultaneously both scary and funny . |
| 8 | They were also an advanced element of a rising but not yet dominant class , as distinct from Bloomsbury 's status as a fraction of dominance . |
| 9 | He will work hard at competition for a female but not so hard for food . |
| 10 | None was formally invited , except for a late and not very attractive offer to Montagu , but Lloyd George would probably have been glad to have two or three of them had he believed that they would accept . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is , however , another side to Gregory 's portrait , from which the king emerges as a suspicious and not totally effectual ruler . |
| 13 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 14 | In all of this Ho Chi Minh is to be seen bobbing about like a cork on the tides of international communism , sometimes lost from sight for long periods , surviving life in Stalin 's Russia and the manifest uncertainties of the purges and , when war broke out , still remaining as an experienced if not entirely successful figure in the communist world and a distant although still immanent leader of Vietnamese communism . |
| 15 | a person of one sex is treated less favourably , on the ground of sex , than a person of the other sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 16 | Direct discrimination against a married person occurs where a married person is treated less favourably on the grounds of marital status , than an unmarried person of the same sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 17 | Some generalisations proved possible , but only in a piecemeal and not wholly consistent fashion . |
| 18 | To the cynical and not so cynical , it seemed clear that Britain was seeking to secure the best of two worlds : to take advantage of the market opportunities for its own industrial goods that a free trade area would provide , while still retaining its special economic arrangements with the Commonwealth , especially its cheap food policy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Confidence in his wife 's ability to cope in his absence related closely to the above and not only to off-farm situations . |
| 21 | To summarise , many partnerships appear to have focused or been focused on the immediate and not necessarily the important . |
| 22 | Although in both books Hilton never loses sight of the spirituality possible for actives each book is addressed to a different audience : Scale 1 to an enclosed and apparently illiterate anchoress " redyng of holy writt may < wel vse " ( 15.288a. – 88 ) ; while Scale 2 seems more generally addressed to a wider and not necessarily wholly contemplative audience . |
| 23 | But at least the fusion community needs such volumes to remind it that at the end of the day the scientific juggling will come to nothing if it does not lead to a convenient and not too expensive source of electricity . |
| 24 | Like many other pre-pubescent boys of the time , I spent the larger part of the Seventies with my shorts round my ankles , making magician 's hands ( raised above the shoulders , fingers splayed ) and shouting the incantation at a hairless and not especially elephantine willy . |
| 25 | In Take a girl like you a great sentence falls like the dew from heaven during one of the scenes in Amis when a terminally drunk man endures a sexual turmoil and fiasco , is stunned by a stunning but not very nice girl . |