Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bias in the contributions is towards quite strong views of equity if not egalitarianism , but different income inequality ideologies exist . |
| 2 | To do so was to invite disappointment if not disaster . |
| 3 | In residential homes a couple who want to live together and express themselves sexually have in the past received ridicule if not hostility , instead of facilitated support . |
| 4 | Oreste would die , she saw that now , for what was it she had felt for Ferdinando if not lust ? |
| 5 | It was a dignified response if not departure with Spurs chief executive Terry Venables forced to come clean over the Shreeves situation after a media leak . |
| 6 | So the man could calculate exactly what he was earning you know , hour by hour if not day by day and week by week . |
| 7 | Thus , some type of course assessment if not programme evaluation was carried out in the majority of cases . |
| 8 | And WHO , pray , is the man for the job if not Wilko ? |
| 9 | It has frequently caused feminists consternation if not dismay to discover that the writer who wrote of women 's shackles was so emotionally and intellectually shackled herself . |
| 10 | There is a tradition here , dating back to the days of ‘ Go-Go County ’ , of First Division embarrassment if not failure but Rangers survived the early onslaught and , before an all-ticket 5,997 crowd on a clear mild night , emerged as worthy winners on aggregate after a goalless draw . |
| 11 | I was there in body if not spirit . |
| 12 | BRAZIL can strike a psychological blow for South America 's World Cup hopes tonight when they play a weakened Holland , the European champions in name if not substance , in Rotterdam in the Dutch FA centenary fixture that England abandoned because of fears of hooliganism , writes David Lacey . |
| 13 | Its collection is from the cream of Dutch art , rivalling the Rijksmuseum 's in quality if not quantity . |
| 14 | They now point to another threat : that the Americans will use the Gulf battlefields to test new weapons and so keep an arms race going , for quality if not quantity . |
| 15 | A role model for damage control if not birth control , Grover acknowledged the son and cabled his party leaders : ‘ Above all , tell the truth . ’ |
| 16 | Israel remained determined to retain military control if not sovereignty over all Eretz Israel/Palestine and to prevent the emergence of a Palestinian state . |
| 17 | Both also work with polarized categories , black/white , male/ female , which by implication if not design , make other forms of inequality acceptable . |
| 18 | While many among the 5,933 crowd may argue against Stainrod 's claim , there was little doubt in the validity of it during the latter stages of what was a north-east affair rich in incident if not quality . |
| 19 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 20 | Then possibly comes that share of fortune if not fame . |
| 21 | Mathematics if not logic equated the two-goal lead Chelsea had established on the hour with a third-round place for the First Division side after the two clubs had drawn 1-1 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 22 | Knowing that pickups are one of the first corners to be cut in budget guitars , I expected tameness if not lameness from the EX . |
| 23 | Born , apparently , in 1890 in Nghe An province of central Vietnam , Ho 's father was at least an acquaintance if not friend of the veteran nationalist Phan Boi Chau . |
| 24 | However , 80 per cent of the revenue generated is spent on civil service salaries , and yet the government by imprecation if not implication blames this peasantry for sheet and gully erosion . |
| 25 | Judging from this we might be missing entertainment if not instruction . |
| 26 | First , as a matter of fact if not law , the actions and responses of any two States will impact upon the interests of other States , as well as upon other participants in the international and municipal arenas . |