Example sentences of "[subord] [not/n't] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great joint expeditions , the combined leaderships , although not without friction , had been justified by their outstanding achievement , the conquest and maintenance of Jerusalem . |
| 2 | At Glynde the Trevor family built on a steady base of modest local prosperity , although not without incident and setbacks . |
| 3 | Mammalian carnivores will also kill birds of prey if they can catch them at night on the nest or roost , and many of the smaller carnivores are themselves taken by larger owls or eagles , although not without danger to themselves . |
| 4 | Perhaps for the sake of brevity , although not for precision and clarity , it is not unusual in some catalogues and lists to find some species roses included under the rambler heading , which like R. wichuraiana , have the same sprawling habit and are sufficiently vigorous to get up into trees . |
| 5 | But there are a few well worn examples which have clearly seen action although not for law and order . |
| 6 | These works , although not for sale , have sometimes been known to appear on the market . |
| 7 | As I have said , the courts can now look at white papers and official reports for the purpose of finding the ‘ mischief ’ sought to be corrected , although not at draft clauses or proposals for the remedying of such mischief . |
| 8 | She saw her role as purely an incubatory one , and will now return to her own work as a biologist — although not of course on this project — having made her most valuable contribution to my work . |
| 9 | The different viewpoints , although not of course equally informative , are equal in the sense that whether ‘ Be aware ’ obliges me to take one of them into account depends on its relevance to choices , not on its nearness to ‘ here ’ , ‘ now , or ‘ I ’ . |
| 10 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 11 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 12 | Although not in flower before March , Bergenia cordifolia Purpurea is another plant blessed with evergreen foliage that has a reddish-purple tinge during winter . |
| 13 | This makes FRNs very similar in behaviour ( although not in maturity ) to money market securities traded on a yield basis . |
| 14 | The programmes of study will apply from five years of age , likewise the attainment targets , although not in operation formally until the age of seven years , will of course be drawn from the study programmes in the first two years of statutory schooling . |
| 15 | A person who picks mushrooms growing wild on any land , or who picks flowers , fruit or foliage from a plant growing wild on any land , does not ( although not in possession of the land ) , steal what he picks , unless he does it for reward or for sale or other commercial purpose . |
| 16 | The simplest configuration in principle ( although not in practice ) is a flow with uniform velocity and density gradients . |
| 17 | The man who stood aside , unsmiling , for them to enter , although not in uniform , was immediately recognisable to Dalgliesh as a police officer . |
| 18 | The donkeys have now gone of course , but you can still get to Malvern by train , and through the tunnel right under the hills , although not by steam train . |
| 19 | When the time comes , it can recoup any water loss and rehydrate very rapidly , although not by drinking . |
| 20 | A few local unions of an unquestionably bona fide description were founded and survived despite the difficulties of finding competent and incorruptible leaders who could adequately represent the interests of an ill-educated and frequently itinerant membership which was more often than not at sea . |
| 21 | This consists more often than not in impairement of prolonged voluntary anal contraction . |
| 22 | If we are to reach the tens of millions in our nation and the tens of thousands in our communities , how are we to do it if not through church planting ? |
| 23 | Despite the damage man has done to the Asian elephant , he has long had a close partnership with the great animal founded if not on love then certainly on respect . |
| 24 | For many of us , the approach of 20 signals the end of childhood and 30 slams the door — if not on youth then certainly on the licence to mis-spend it . |
| 25 | You are probably aware that the Marauders hold the most physical area sales meetings in the UK , if not on Planet Earth : the reason for this is that they are then able to carry out the most professional and demanding surveys to get the sale . |
| 26 | By the end of that evening , after she had sat through a dinner in the large school refectory , listened to Madame Chardin 's opening speech of the term and lain in the dark listening to her new roommates , Katherine did indeed begin to feel if not at home , then at least marginally more comfortable . |
| 27 | Yet the majority of women repealers clearly identified , if not with feminism , then with a body of ideas and aspirations variously known as the woman question , the emancipation of women , the rights of women and so on . |
| 28 | Could at least think about it , visualize it again , if not with pleasure , at least not with that sick-making horror of the past few weeks . |
| 29 | And as Chancellor , if not as Transport Secretary , he might be sufficiently prominent to get that invitation to Desert Island Discs and have the Shotts Pipe Band playing over the airwaves . |
| 30 | A person who is displaying an offensive banner in his front window so that it is visible to all the world clearly ‘ displays ’ within section 18 even if not under section 4 . |