Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] not [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here at last was an obstacle to the streetwise , although perhaps not an insurmountable one . |
| 2 | Although perhaps not the most exotic of fish available , the Port Hoplo is ideal for the larger community tank with the added interest of its unusual breeding habit . |
| 3 | Although technically not a baron , for he held little directly from the king , Peter was a substantial magnate . |
| 4 | Allergy , although probably not the cause of glue ear , is a factor in its persistence and recurrence and should be taken into consideration when evaluating treatment methods . |
| 5 | So the notion that venture capitalists are prone to interfering in the businesses in which they invest is not , strictly speaking , a valid one , or if so not a criticism about which MBO managers would fret too much . |
| 6 | In Sarrance she is said to have written a part of her celebrated Heptameron , which is the French equivalent , even if frankly not the equal , of Boccaccio 's Decameron , a collection of seventy-two intermittently salacious stories . |
| 7 | As slaves were to be found in all the American colonies and were an important , though perhaps not a vital , part of the economy of Virginia , Maryland , and the Carolinas , the Georgians were asking only that they should be allowed to do what everyone else did . |
| 8 | Some of the children in our study felt desperately disappointed that they had not been adopted , and yet they did have a home which would continue to be available to them in their adult life and had found a kind of loving , though perhaps not the all-accepting , all-loving parent of their dreams . |
| 9 | No doubt his model was better , and the Niobid Painter 's Peirithous is not so bad though still not a great success . |
| 10 | In a number of cases , though probably not the majority , the public or ‘ outsider ’ case for a merger was devised to conceal — or certainly not to reveal — the' insider' objectives behind a merger proposal , which were far more concerned with private financial gain than with company reorganisation [ Aaronvitch and Sawyer , 1975 ] . |
| 11 | ‘ Of course , though probably not the kitchen . |
| 12 | Though reportedly not the widely used SoftPC , it is based , Ledbetter said , on SoftPC 3.0 . |
| 13 | But there is , as part of our common culture , a good measure of agreement between any two people on many , though frequently not the same , points . |