Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blocking the activity of GABA eliminates the conditioned but not the unconditioned response . |
| 2 | Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning |
| 3 | It has been referred to as the weapon of the strong and not of the weak . |
| 4 | An excellent pub catering for the sedate , the posh and not so posh residents of select Newington . |
| 5 | Smiths is still the largest if not the most imposing bookshop in Glasgow ( 16,000 sq ft , 40 full time plus Saturday ) . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , there are other , newer sources never suspected of contributing to eutrophication that may be beyond the political if not the scientific , reach of conservationists . |
| 7 | This was a man entirely under the sway of the Eternal and not of the material . |
| 8 | Although there is actually little that is novel in ‘ sociobiology ’ , for the key elements have been in the air since the writings of Sir Ronald Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane , the extensive if not exhaustive application of population genetics to social evolution means that the relevance of evolutionary biology in the social sciences can no longer be ignored . |
| 9 | A collection of pellets from the arctic skua from the Canadian arctic were also investigated , and they were found to contain the broken but not digested remains of lemmings . |
| 10 | He argued that the bread and wine somehow coexisted with the body and blood , and more importantly that the miracle occurred because of the presence of the faithful and not as a result of the magical powers of the priest . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | Following the painful and not yet complete absorption of Nixdorf , Siemens ' product line is a mishmash of iAPX-86 , 68000 family and MIPS Computer Systems Inc R-series processors , and Siemens fabricates the R-series , but the company also had a long-standing OEM relationship with Apollo Computer Inc that continued after that company was acquired by Hewlett-Packard . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | however , on examination this becomes less clear cut , since there seem to be three categories — the voluntary ; the required but not closely monitored ; and the fully enforced . |
| 18 | This passed and on 6 August the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima , killing outright some 80 000 people and exposing many thousands more to the longer-term but not less deadly effects of radiation . |
| 19 | Since these tasks must be accomplished … from the proletariat 's point of view , the abolition of the so-called ‘ freedom to labour ’ is essentially in the name of the real and not mythical freedom of the working class … |
| 20 | The criticism of Turgenev is only incidentally that he is stuck in the 1840s and not far-sighted enough . |
| 21 | For instance , corporate crime is clearly committed for the corporate and not against it . |
| 22 | The Histories were begun in the mid-570s and not completed until shortly before Gregory 's death ; the four books on the miracles of St Martin were started slightly earlier and the last of them was still being extended in 593 . |
| 23 | The Three Valleys are bound to be in there too , with Charlotte 's vote probably going to Meribel because it 's in the central valley of the three and not what is invariably described as a concrete jungle ; Val d'Isere because the skiing is just so brill and Tignes is , well , a concrete jungle really . |
| 24 | It was growing dark , and she thought of sleeping on a bench or under a tree in a remote part of Regent 's Park , but she was afraid that , having spent the night out and returning in a dishevelled state , her landlady might assume the worst and not let her in again . |
| 25 | ‘ Not the worst and not the best , this is everyday . ’ |
| 26 | And not the worst and not the best , just about average . |
| 27 | The obvious but not very informative reply is : because we want to subject activities of governmental agencies to a different legal regime from that which regulates the activities of private individuals . |
| 28 | We completed the film during the early summer of 1979 and in August Mountbatten was granted the quick but not peaceful death he had asked for when his boat was blown up by an IRA bomb off the west coast of Ireland . |
| 29 | Typically , the proximal but not distal part of the material extruding from the gastric pits was covered by a basement membrane ( Fig 1C ) . |
| 30 | BBC2 , on the other hand , unleashed the magnificent if not majestic if not ultra-enormous comedienne Jo Brand to launch their seduction . |