Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] not [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally several males may form loose groups together , but whether they do this or not the essential point here is that it is the combined efforts of the females that control the herd , and rear and defend the young . |
| 2 | When one does this , it is clear that not every child is equally equipped to cope with the particular purposes and tasks that occur in classrooms . |
| 3 | Revolution might be staved off by " trickle-down " economics , in Europe and North America , on the basis of ever greater economic growth ; however , it was increasingly clear that not every family in the world could run a private car , or even own their own home . |
| 4 | All around her there were trees — huge , old , their foliage so high that not a leaf was distinguishable . |
| 5 | I believe the agenda for the 90s is rooted in daily life and Postmodernism is in harmony with this and not an autonomous entity . |
| 6 | The transformation is then strictly the negative reciprocal and not the reciprocal ; otherwise , the order of 2 and 3 would be reversed , as the reciprocal of 2 ( 0.5 ) is larger than the reciprocal of 3 ( 0.33 ) . |
| 7 | Prima facie the rules of construction must be applied as at the date of execution of the lease : thus a word will be interpreted in the sense it bore at the time ( Texaco Antilles Ltd v Kernochan [ 1973 ] AC 609 : the phrase " public garage " was given the meaning it bore in 1933 and not the one it bore at the date of the litigation ; St Marylebone Property Co Ltd v Tesco Stores Ltd [ 1988 ] 27 EG 72 construing the word " grocer " ) . |
| 8 | Er in the U K we 've held our market position and it 's been a a pretty desperate market we were one of the few if not the only book seller who refused to er to yield better discount terms er , on the threat of er every , every book seller was every er publisher was threatened with erm not being stocked unless we gave bigger discounts . |
| 9 | → When you buy goods or equipment you have a legal right to expect them to comply with any description applied : leather not plastic , solid wood and not veneer , or in this case a ‘ 67 and not a 1974 model . |
| 10 | Hope sprang up in her , because if Caspar could make the Robemaker believe that he was merely foolish and not an intruder , they might have a chance . |
| 11 | If we ask who is to gauge that ( presumably not God ) , he gives the unhelpful and not a little pompous reply that it is ‘ known with clarity and precision only by some few thinking men in every nation and every age ’ ( p. 64 ) . |
| 12 | The plucky little hedgehog kept at it until the dog dish was empty and not a scrap remained . |
| 13 | Andre Beteille argues that the search for a biological basis for social stratification is bound to end in failure since the ‘ identification as well as the gradation of qualities is a cultural and not a natural process ’ . |
| 14 | If this theory is correct , the term ‘ metaplasia ’ is a misnomer : metaplasia implies a change from one differentiated cell type to another and not the induction of a novel cell lineage . |
| 15 | Ben Jonson actually takes delight in announcing ( in Latin ) on the title page of his 1616 Workes that the book is designed for the select few and not the common crowd . |
| 16 | It 's a big stage event with a very abstract brief , very exciting but not a fancy dress show . ’ |
| 17 | the advances made have been very exciting but not every knitter wants to go too ‘ high tec ’ . |
| 18 | The centrodorsal plate is usually conspicuous but not the primary plates . |
| 19 | But they were not all the same groups within the different daily and Sunday categories each year : for instance , Beaverbrook was a top daily but not a top Sunday group in 1947 . |
| 20 | and Aaron get up , we 've , we 've only got a very small bedroom so we might as well make the most of it , we 've had quotes and all that and erm , look not the cheapest but not the exp the most expensive erm |
| 21 | Whichever party is in power makes some but not a great deal of difference . |
| 22 | New price lists tell and interesting but not a consistent story . |
| 23 | I mean but interesting but not the ideal answer . |
| 24 | Erm I 'm surprised that slightly surprised that with council and Hugh were willing to go down given what we had given our information about how dangerous or not the site actually is . |
| 25 | Pliny 's standing as author of the Historia Naturalis was such that not a few of the beliefs which he set down without personal commitment have continued to influence popular superstitions for nearly two millennia . |
| 26 | Using Circle K as an example he complained that since the lighting had been removed the corner was dull , dark and dangerous and not a place to walk late at night . |
| 27 | But in terms of turnover in staff I would I would be fairly confident in saying we have the lowest one of the lowest if not the lowest in any direct sales operation . |
| 28 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 29 | Of course you do n't have to keep off land during the stalking season if you do n't want to , since trespass in Scotland is contained within the civil and not the criminal law . |
| 30 | Remember that it is the cleared bank balance on which interest is payable and not the cash book balance . |