Example sentences of "[subord] [not/n't] a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not a high form of participation , employees were likely to be informed of the reasons for change , how and when it will be implemented , what the new system will mean to them and its benefits . |
| 2 | Paracetamol , although not a common cause of death by suicide , is used increasingly for deliberate self poisoning . |
| 3 | Hence the oppression of women , although not a functional prerequisite of capitalism , has acquired a material basis in the relations of production and reproduction of capitalism today . |
| 4 | ( And what is a Single Currency if not a permanent system of fixed exchange rates ? ) |
| 5 | The second difference is that in the colleges advanced instruction is usually timetabled , if not a formal part of the course , whereas in universities and polytechnics it is generally neither of these . |
| 6 | WHO suggests there should be , and , if not a common way of paying for it , at least an agreed means of approaching the difficulties involved . |
| 7 | First , it demonstrates that the majority of types of metaphor ( if not a statistical majority of metaphorical utterances ) do not operate on the basis of replacement , but contain both ‘ proper ’ and ‘ metaphoric ’ terms in praesentia ( 1958a:23–5 ) . |
| 8 | A wilderness which gradually widened until not a single shrub of hope was left . |
| 9 | During a time of harsh military discipline , when drum-head courts , public floggings and hangings were carried out to ‘ encourage the rest ’ , the 93rd were excused from attendance at show-piece parades ; because not a single member of their regiment was ever punished . |
| 10 | The product of the flowrate and the dilution factor give a numerical value for the odour emission , which whilst not a direct measurement of odour nuisance is shown to be a guide : the higher the emission the more likely the odour is to give rise to complaints and therefore more likely to amount to a nuisance at law . |
| 11 | In relation to the almost antithetical Marxist positions of Sartre and Althusser , Foucault does not , however , simply follow the latter rather than the former : he articulates through a historical perspective the problems that their work encountered and attempts to produce a new method of historical enquiry — though not a general theory of history as such — that is both theoretically coherent and politically effective with respect to the particular problems under examination . |
| 12 | During the 1987 Iran/Contra hearings in Washington the most frightening witness was Colonel Oliver North , who , though not a direct employee of the CIA , had been inextricably associated with it in this sordid affair . |