Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first shot was ‘ Incomes policy and exchange rates ’ which rather reveals perhaps the track upon which I find my own mind has been running in recent months if not years . |
| 2 | Often Asian women coming from joint families in the Indian subcontinent to join their husbands in Britain do succeed in making the necessary emotional adjustment , but for many of them it takes months if not years ; for some coping with the total emotional dependence on the husband alone is just not possible . |
| 3 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 4 | Towards morning , Peter dreamed the old dream for the first time in months if not years . |
| 5 | If they had served small areas , the CMHTs would have had great difficulty in liaising with the specialist facilities and organizations ( statutory and non-statutory ) which characterize the mental handicap field and which necessarily tend to cover large areas if not regions . |
| 6 | Many of these lakes last for decades if not centuries and are used by several generations of beavers . |
| 7 | diplomats working for their release say they hope the pair will be out within days if not hours . |
| 8 | They expect that within days if not hours Luena , Cuito , Bie and Menongue will also fall . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That could take days if not weeks , ’ her husband told her . |
| 10 | At that stage victory for the strikers seemed a matter of weeks if not days . |
| 11 | Bogwood requires some weeks if not months , of soaking to remove the bulk of the tannins it contains — one does not varnish bogwood for Uaru tanks , as then eat the varnish and then die . |
| 12 | He would be unlikely to survive the procedure but could well remain dependent on machinery for life support for weeks if not months before his heart stopped beating . |
| 13 | A new hi-tech identity card should be introduced — by airlines if not governments — to supplement passports , which were more easily forged . |
| 14 | He had absolutely , however , set his face against accepting help from Ruby Dobby although she had arrived on the second floor that morning full of promises if not promise . |
| 15 | Climbing expeditions into the peaks themselves have also left behind piles of rubbish , and Cullen ( 1986 ) points out that the problem is compounded by the fact that in such a high Alpine environment decomposition rates are very slow so that discarded materials may persist for several years if not decades . |
| 16 | In a land where survival was so nakedly a prime instinct , food supplies were the key that opened local hearts if not minds . |
| 17 | There was increasing pressure from other European countries for access to EC markets if not membership of the EC [ see below ] . |
| 18 | These are ideal subjects for recording in watercolour , especially if you can see walls as not bricks and stone , but as coloured surfaces emblazoned with a wealth of tints and colours . |
| 19 | These are ideal subjects for recording in watercolour , especially if you can see walls as not bricks and stone , but as coloured surfaces emblazoned with a wealth of tints and colours . |