Example sentences of "[coord] not the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Promotional campaign or not the best advert for any school has to be the children . |
| 2 | The yarn I was using was cotton , a double knitting weight and not the best for cabling at any time and I did need to have cables , since I had sketched them into my design . |
| 3 | ‘ Not the worst and not the best , this is everyday . ’ |
| 4 | His book Twilight over England , cites the case of a Jewish student who burst into tears when he discovered that he was only the second best and not the best in the list of those who had passed their medical exams . |
| 5 | And not the worst and not the best , just about average . |
| 6 | Revolution was only one , and not the commonest , method pursued by burghers ; taking advantage of political disturbance could bring more speedy results . |
| 7 | I was very shy and not the sharpest of children . |
| 8 | For thousands of years the marmots had lived on the banks of the lake in Central Asia where they played host to a flea called xenopsylla cheopsis and a tiny bacillus , or disease , called pasteurella pestis , with no dramatic consequences to any of them , and not the slightest impact on the rest of the world . |
| 9 | This goal had important consequences for the role given , not only to critical or scholarly commentaries and other incrustations upon the essential text , but also to the teacher : " In dealing with literature in any full sense , to efface oneself , to stand away , between the child and literature , is the highest and not the easiest of duties which the teacher can undertake " . |
| 10 | One can only just go on hoping and praying that it is the best and not the worst that has happened . |
| 11 | Luckily we were over Germany and not the worst nightmare , over the Channel , as we would have been thirty minutes more into the flight . |
| 12 | And not the worst and not the best , just about average . |
| 13 | The progress of groups of students in the higher ( but not the highest ) parts of the class achievement range is often monitored particularly closely by the transmission teacher and used to ‘ steer ’ his or her judgements about the management and development of the lesson for the class as a whole . |
| 14 | Today at the appeal court his counsel asked for his prison term to be reduced , saying it was a bad case , but not the worst case . |
| 15 | The safest and most popular alternative ( but not the cheapest ) has traditionally been travellers cheques , which are , in general , universally accepted . |
| 16 | Young Ben Titford was born and raised in smelly , noisy Pig Street — a lively enough corner of the world , perhaps , but not the healthiest of places for all that . |