Example sentences of "[subord] [not/n't] [prep] course " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ What a strange demand ! ’ says Lebyadkin with an effrontery beyond the man we have been given , though not of course beyond old Karamazov . |
| 5 | Colonel Blimp today is likely to be a Roundhead colonel , in his professed sentiments a Leveller , though not of course in his practices . |
| 6 | Socio-economic problems remained largely the same in 1905–14 and 1922 in Kursk guberniia ( though not of course in the Lower Volga area on account of the Famine ) . |
| 7 | It conveniently marks the beginning of nineteenth-century poetry , though not of course the end of eighteenth-century readers , who lingered on till after 1832 , so that in the first three decades of the new century a great battle of taste was fought out , largely over Wordsworth 's ‘ simple ’ poetry . |
| 8 | So while you might well overhear Eeyore sighing to himself , and know therefore that he is n't trying to mislead anyone , it 's much less likely ( though not of course impossible ) that you 'll overhear Rabbit muttering ‘ There 's honey ’ to himself . |