Example sentences of "[coord] [not/n't] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She maintained that the reproductive organs were formed in girls at birth and not newly created in adolescence as Maudsley claimed , and while agreeing that women stored nutrient in reserve for childbearing , argued that it was not in finite supply and could safely be drawn upon in adolescence . |
| 2 | It means only that ideas both given and new will be subjected to scrutiny and not simply accepted on trust . |
| 3 | All the previous week Kidd had exhorted his forwards to concentrate on winning the battle up front and not simply live in hope that they could gain a few crumbs and hope their more skilful backs would steal a march on Shannon . |
| 4 | The disadvantage is that it was very expensive , low in fibre , and not well balanced for use in the long term . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not saying you should n't have hit him , ’ said Polly patiently , who was , after all , the daughter of a trained killer ( Squadron Leader , RAF , Ret. ) and not unduly given to pacifism . |
| 6 | The discovery of new sources , advances in technique , the opening and closure of markets and not least changes of fashion , no less powerful because often defying rational explanation , all helped to promote change . |
| 7 | The speech was all too unexciting , having travelled the country for the past year , and not noticeably improving with age . |
| 8 | He pointed to the necessity of a reciprocal relationship , one that had ultimately to be beneficial to all participants , and not merely based upon value money exchanges but one that entailed an exchange of real use-values . |
| 9 | Both the group and the person himself are necessary for the process ; the epic poet is actively creative and not passively responding to group pressures . |
| 10 | More recently , social policy in this country has been informed by political economy — that tradition , primarily but not exclusively derived from Marxism , which identifies the ideological character of disciplinary boundaries and looks for explanations of the nature of social structure and social process in terms of the character of the dominant mode of production ( see Gough , 1979 ) . |
| 11 | Cheques credited in the cash book but not yet presented for payment to the bank . |
| 12 | Cheques drawn but not yet presented for payment £131.00 ; standing orders shown as paid on the bank statement but not entered in cash book £82.00 ; cheques entered in cash book but not yet paid into the bank £64.00 . |
| 13 | The perfect simulation which has been suggested but not yet implemented in process control , power generation and air traffic control would be to have two identical control rooms and two crews coming on duty . |
| 14 | The open-ended commitment to a vastly expensive discretionary scheme for criminal injuries compensation , sanctioned by statute in 1988 but not yet brought into force at the time of writing , was a particular Treasury bête noire , leading to pressure to cut back on other things if Ministers maintained that it was politically unacceptable to curtail the cost . |
| 15 | In past centuries , when few statutes were enacted , common law constituted the main body of English law ; today , it has been largely but not wholly displaced by statute law . |
| 16 | The maternity grant and the death grant , two benefits initiated in the Beveridge era but not properly updated in line with inflation , were abolished , to be replaced by means test-related benefits for the very poor . |
| 17 | God gives enough evidence of Christ risen to call to faith , but not enough to compel to acceptance … |
| 18 | Enough to put together a good story but not enough to rush into print with it . ’ |
| 19 | Every quarterly club meeting turns into a very pleasant ‘ social event ’ with wine and nibbles and subsidised trips are organised at frequent intervals ( but not always to do with knitting ) for added interest . |
| 20 | The idea now under consideration , that we take effects to be probable events , is announced or expounded but not much supported by argument . |