Example sentences of "[conj] not without [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great joint expeditions , the combined leaderships , although not without friction , had been justified by their outstanding achievement , the conquest and maintenance of Jerusalem . |
| 2 | At Glynde the Trevor family built on a steady base of modest local prosperity , although not without incident and setbacks . |
| 3 | Mammalian carnivores will also kill birds of prey if they can catch them at night on the nest or roost , and many of the smaller carnivores are themselves taken by larger owls or eagles , although not without danger to themselves . |
| 4 | He had tried experimentally and not without success in the past , but was needed more often to revert to orthodox seam . |
| 5 | The Violet People are all charging guitars , sort of power pop with boggly eyes , and not without charm . |
| 6 | Of her other novels , Nothing But Propaganda ( 1946 ) and Not Without Fantasy ( 1947 ) , set in wartime Britain and Russia , were perhaps the most interesting . |
| 7 | There was , as we have seen , much interest in the copper veins , and not without surprise we find this continued into the 1700's . |
| 8 | He turned to a small cabinet mounted high on the kitchen wall , and in a moment had presented her with a glass of water and two white capsules that she swallowed obediently and not without relief . |
| 9 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , whose Rome Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith co-ordinated the drafting of the documents , described it as a response to the ‘ thirst for truth and certainty ’ , but admitted that the death penalty references were ‘ discussed at length , and not without difficulty ’ . |
| 10 | They 'd heard her a little at rehearsal , but not properly , not consistently , and not without interruption and background noise . |
| 11 | Press speculation ran Patrick Jenkin as Howe 's likeliest heir and not without reason . |
| 12 | Still the biggest selling independent single of all time , and not without reason . |
| 13 | Instead she was holed up for goodness knew how long with a man who clearly despised her — and not without reason , she admitted silently , leaning her forehead against the cold glass of the window . |
| 14 | Traditional readings of the Shipman 's Tale , however , suppose the husband to be a , or even the , target figure , and not without reason . |
| 15 | So big a man is never going to be exactly nippy , but he is not slow and not without ball-sense . |
| 16 | For I too had been tainted , and not without blemish . |
| 17 | And not without cause . |
| 18 | If I had to choose between the two , I could live without performing but not without song writing . |
| 19 | The word intellectual had been applied twice to O'Keeffe or her work in earlier criticism , but not without qualification . |
| 20 | But not without difficulty and not until Butler had assembled a complicated financial package which included generous loans to enable the voluntary bodies to build or convert schools for secondary purposes . |
| 21 | The race , and the championship , were won at Monza , but not without difficulty due to Emerson 's fear of running out of fuel , which he conserved with characteristic prudence . |
| 22 | He also brought to an end , but not without difficulty , the suit which had begun between the archbishop and the chapter of Canterbury over the church of Lambeth , which the same archbishop , against the will of the chapter , had built and endowed with many and substantial rents , instituting canons regular in it — noble men , powerful and educated . |
| 23 | I still believe in democracy but not without discipline . |
| 24 | At the fête Stepan Verkhovensky , the man of the 1840s , makes a speech arguing that Shakespeare matters more than boots , and Raphael more than petroleum ; whipping himself up in his peroration to declare that mankind can get on without bread but not without beauty . |
| 25 | The general theory of society which is enshrined in these two books is spelt out with great verve , but not without ambiguity , in Durkheim 's methodological manifesto Les Règles de la method sociologique . |
| 26 | Extractions were achieved without appreciable loss of activity ( but not without discomfort ) by working at temperatures below 5°C . |
| 27 | The town was captured instead , but not without loss . |
| 28 | Alan Bray and Jeffrey Weeks have given historical support to this view , though not without qualification ; I remarked in Part 1 some further reservations . |
| 29 | The Trader costume suggested a certain piratical business acumen , though not without honour , and in the service of a deeper sensuality . |
| 30 | Though not without merit , this argument is weaker here than it might be elsewhere , since the UN plan appears designed to punish all war criminals in the former Yugoslavia rather than to impose international law on one party only . |