Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [not/n't] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that by the end of '92 she will be the World No. 2 if not No. 1 . |
| 2 | Life for me would be empty and not life , a mere dragging on of weary time , perhaps not that . |
| 3 | Stressing that his views were personal and not society policy , Mr Adair gave as examples of tinkering with the criminal system attempts to have the not proven verdict abolished , to introduce an offensive weapons charge and to examine the number of crimes committed by people already on bail . |
| 4 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 5 | Mr Drury said he had written to parents several times to be more considerate and not park directly outside the school . |
| 6 | Landmark stability is a prerequisite for spatial but not discrimination learning |
| 7 | Any Rough or Not sheet of paper as opposed to an HP surface . |
| 8 | The undulations in Rough or Not paper allow the dusty pastel more surface area to grip to . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sure that not eating has been one of your problems , ’ she informed me . |
| 10 | There is no doubt that dishonest or surreptitious acquisition of information is usually overwhelming evidence that information was confidential and not part of the defendant 's skill and knowledge . |
| 11 | Let me give a few examples : I can will knowledge but not wisdom ; going to bed but not sleeping ; eating but not hunger … self-assertion but not courage … reading but not understanding … |
| 12 | and we kept the homes small , about twenty in a home to make it more like home-like and not institution . |
| 13 | Moreover he argued before the judge that if any of these three sections applied to what was done by the respondent in the present case , the relevant one was section 3 and not section 1 . |
| 14 | A MINUS B will be the set of tuples ( figure 4.3(d) ) who attend module 3 but not module 2a . |
| 15 | She says my first reaction is one of horror , then sympathy for the individual concerned but not surprise . |
| 16 | The Darlington transistor and thyristor should be widely available and not cause concern . |
| 17 | But marine biologist and shark specialist Richard Fitzpatrick , of Oceanworld marine park , Sydney , said the two attacks were coincidental and not part of an emerging trend . |
| 18 | So I would suggest that regional and sub- regional policies need to occur much higher up the list and er perhaps I would put them at number one if not number two . |
| 19 | all numbers must be essential and not garnish |
| 20 | You should put yourself first and not care or be possessive about your children , or about making your husband the breadwinner happy , or making the home a nice place to be . ’ ’ |
| 21 | In terms of reaction time , the right hemisphere emerged as sensitive to manipulations in age-of-acquisition but not imagery . |
| 22 | Well , I think we 're talking here about hospitals in particular and not GP practice but we 're also saying that this is something which the enthusiastic and bright and very capable people we have in our health service are very keen on because they believe it will do better for their patients . |
| 23 | Soon he realised that the coveralls which were visible on the far bank were Navy dark blue and not Survey Service drab grey . |
| 24 | Looking back at the bell-box Sorvino was tempted to find a half-brick and try to put it out , but that would be fun and not duty . |
| 25 | A telephone call has the advantage of giving a personalised response , and yet is relatively inexpensive and not time consuming . |
| 26 | Whether or not it was ‘ in their haste , their unwillingness to temporise , that the Vietminh leaders , with their fathomless vanity , had driven their country straight into conflict with France ’ — the reproach of Vietnamese intellectuals and non-marxist nationalists — it was a rather academic if not drawing-room argument that the Vietminh could easily have brought about national unanimity and created a national state rather than revolution and the party state . |
| 27 | After the war a series of anti-colonial , anti-settler , Kikuyu language newspapers existed that went mainly unchecked because the British colonial administrators knew Swahili but not Kikuyu . |