Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likewise unimportant whether is a food parallel to or not both because the relation of the lines does not depend upon the relation between the terms that are " in parallel " ( as we say ) , and because the notion that an ideal parallelism is a truly synonymous parallelism has been exploded by the principle of the parallelism of greater precision . |
| 2 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 3 | ( a ) Unregistered land If the house is in the husband 's sole name it should be conveyed , for reasons mentioned earlier , to trustees who can be himself and the wife , or himself and an outsider , or not less than two outsiders ( often one being nominated by the husband and one by the wife ) . |
| 4 | or not long after so why have they been doing that if there 's nothing much to do ? |
| 5 | But her radio was in place , her maps and street guide and other papers were still present although not exactly as she had left them . |
| 6 | Bearing in mind that although not here as I said , but he he he worked for his father . |
| 7 | Most felt that patient services had , if anything , declined under general management — although not necessarily because of general management . |
| 8 | The first is the requirement that not later than 13 weeks after the beginning of the employment , an employee is entitled to a written statement containing particulars of the terms of the employment , which must include details of disciplinary and grievance procedures available to the employee , unless the employer employs fewer than 20 people . |
| 9 | To this , the Inspecting Officer concurred , provided that not more than one car ever stood in Lower Church Street . |
| 10 | James Montague , Bishop of Winchester , had decreed the same shortly before his death in 1618 , stating that not more than £400 be spent on his funeral — an incredibly large amount even by early seventeenth-century standards . |
| 11 | Of all the hundreds of trade pattern books issued by manufacturers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it appears that not more than ten survive in public collections , and only one pre-Victorian priced catalogue relating to coffins and lining materials . |
| 12 | In 1969 Whiteley estimated that not more than one million people in Tanzania and Kenya combined were mother-tongue speakers of the language . |
| 13 | My mother 's only stipulation had been that not more than two servants should remain with the child . |
| 14 | In implementing screening through incorporation of earthed metallic enclosures , either in the form of boxes round components or the braided outers of coaxial cables , care must be exercised to ensure that not more than one point of the circuit is earthed otherwise part of it will be shorted out . |
| 15 | This was on account of the fact that not long after the big switch-on of the water power there arose a scare which threatened to ruffle the smooth surface of the millpond . |
| 16 | To think that not less than 30 years ago we still had a fiver worthy of the 18th century and felt no need to supplement the revenue by the constant issuing of new postage stamps . |
| 17 | It is conservatively estimated that not less than 120,000 persons have died of actual starvation during the last two years in the Lebanon alone . |
| 18 | The relevant circumstances are set out in s1(2) of that Act which states : ( 2 ) The circumstances referred to in the preceding subsection [ the extinguishment of any right of the sender to the goods ] are that the goods were sent to the recipient with a view to his acquiring them , that the recipient has no reasonable cause to believe that they were sent with a view to their being acquired for the purposes of a trade or business and has neither agreed to acquire nor agreed to return them , and either ( a ) that during the period of six months beginning with the day on which the recipient received the goods the sender did not take possession of them and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so ; or ( b ) that not less than thirty days before the expiration of the period aforesaid the recipient gave notice to the sender in accordance with the following sub-section , and that during the period of thirty days beginning with the day on which the notice was given the sender did not take possession of the goods and the recipient did not unreasonably refuse to permit the sender to do so . |
| 19 | and it 's a , an old fashioned music hall , more often than not well when we went it was a pantomime but the first part of the evening was an o a music hall |
| 20 | What I tomorrow and not here because they forward it on to us . |
| 21 | Now I 'm focusing on this new record and not even considering anything that 's happened , and maybe we can come out absolved . ’ |
| 22 | In the Soviet Union as elsewhere , what matters is how well people manage their dilemmas and not just whether they solve them . |
| 23 | The home is a hazardous place , and not just if you are elderly , in fact more accidents happen to the young , who tend to rush about more and trip over things or fall down staircases . |
| 24 | It remains background music , and not just because , in Keith Turnbull 's tidy production , the players are neatly packed away behind Gavin Semple 's wonderful , octopoid hotel boiler . |
| 25 | He was sweating , and not just because of the stuffiness of the room . |
| 26 | Therefore , they decided to put their energy into a battle they could only lose , and not just because of television but also because they did so little on their own account to improve the cinemas , and to provide an environment which would lure potential audiences away from their increasingly comfortable homes . |
| 27 | Other countries will smell British self-interest in these directives , and not just because Sir Leon Brittan is the commissioner who dreamed them up . |
| 28 | I was really looking forward to the 1961 Birkdale Open , and not just because we 'd gone so close the year before , though I was dying to get another chance to go one better this time . |
| 29 | Commenting on his sexual abstinence Erik Erikson writes : ‘ It is of importance here that he gave up sexual intimacy for a wider communal intimacy and not just because sexuality seemed immoral in any Calvinistic sense . |
| 30 | And not just because as teenagers it is no longer that easy to keep them safely by your side . |