Example sentences of "[subord] not [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | February : Feb 14 : recall of Soviet ambassador from Iceland in protest at Icelandic Parliament 's decision to recognise Lithuania 's independence ; Feb. 15 : Primakov in Tokyo for preparatory talks about Gorbachev 's planned visit to Japan in April ; Feb. 16 ; three European Community Foreign Ministers ( Italy , Luxembourg , Netherlands ) in Moscow for talks on EC-Soviet relations , the Gulf conflict and the situation in the Baltic states ; Feb. 26 : agreement with South Africa to renew diplomatic contacts ( although not diplomatic relations ) . |
| 2 | So these channels sh show significant although not er sig al although not extensive sequence homology with the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor which enables you to place them in the same class of being er a ligand er binding channel . |
| 3 | The first , which is , of course , also a point of particular although not exclusive concern to large numbers of less well-off people over pension age , is the further large increase in the special income support limits for those in residential care and nursing homes . |
| 4 | Although not large shrubs , there is considerable variation in size : some are no more than 2ft ( 0.6m ) high and wide , and others three times that . |
| 5 | Yet even by 1961 , when there were 3,872 secondary modern schools , there were still 1,026 unreorganized schools — schools , that is , which ( although not secondary schools ) included many pupils of secondary-school age . |
| 6 | Many prices freed ( although not basic commodities ) . |
| 7 | This modern view has come about not as a result of any further substantial constitutional developments — perhaps strangely , or perhaps significantly , the issue has never been seriously tested — rather , it has come to enjoy widespread , although not universal acquiescence largely because Dicey ( following Stephen and an equivocating Blackstone ) posited it as a central feature of the English constitution and because it has a deceptively simple logical appeal . |
| 8 | For Heath it was a partnership in Indo-China between France and the US , whose interests required loyal and ungrudging although not uncritical support from the US . |
| 9 | They fry were fed on baby brineshrimp and although not fast growers they seemed to do well . |
| 10 | Today he was very much alive … although not high kicking , he does n't do that so much these days . |
| 11 | Economics should only be used to indicate potential costs and not , of itself , to determine policy choices ; for more often than not economic arguments neglect to take into account the totality of the costs involved . |
| 12 | If they had children in the house , they were more often than not other people 's , and therefore more likely to be ill-treated . |
| 13 | This was seen as a slight restriction of the doctrine when it was imposed in Church ( 1966 ) , where the court held that ‘ The unlawful act must be such as all sober and reasonable people would inevitably recognize must subject the other person to , at least , the risk of some harm resulting therefrom , albeit not serious harm . ’ |
| 14 | The Church test therefore appears to be broad and readily fulfilled , but the phrase ‘ some harm … albeit not serious harm ’ has been construed restrictively in one sense . |
| 15 | In January 1971 , shooting began in what Patrick Agan , a previous biographer of Hoffman , called ‘ a desolate corner of Britain' , a risible if not insulting reference to the county of Cornwall . |
| 16 | It is all very well to say that local circumstances will dictate responses but there will be many similar circumstances from place to place , so that there is clear benefit in adopting common approaches if not standard solutions . |
| 17 | The fact that ‘ official ’ criminals were overwhelmingly from the working class and were seen to be responding to the same forces that promoted socialist consciousness tended to favour at least a positive , if not heroic view of their activities . |
| 18 | It was inevitable that great changes would take place during the 140 million years , including extinctions of genera and sub-orders , if not entire orders . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , looked at the other way round these figures show that most older men and women enjoy reasonable if not perfect health . |
| 20 | We now know that there was a larger population , more sites in earlier periods , and greater continuity of land use , if not actual settlement sites , into later periods , and therefore there was less opportunity for colonisation and the creation of new settlements . |
| 21 | Prejudice suggests conscious action if not actual choice . |
| 22 | It is with the consent of the owners of the supermarket , be that consent express or implied , that the shopper does these acts and thus obtains at least control if not actual possession of the goods preparatory , at a later stage , to obtaining the property in them upon payment of the proper amount at the checkpoint . |
| 23 | Mr Duroselle is cataloguing , first , a tendency for Europeans to be more similar than they are different , although their very diversity is what marks them out ; and second , the various aspirations — if not actual attempts — to bring Europeans into conscious , and voluntary , union . |
| 24 | Finally , scraping together the last microscopic filaments of my tattered pride to produce a quorum fit for emergency egoresuscitation if not actual wit , I managed : ‘ Gav , I 'm shocked . ’ |
| 25 | To be accepted they are forced to develop if not actual defences , then masks against the external world . |
| 26 | The inevitable over-simplification , if not actual misrepresentation , of the richness , complexity and dynamism of religious traditions can be deeply offensive to religious believers and can even lead to charges of racism . |
| 27 | But I still maintain that most bedding planes show evidence of a pause in sedimentation , if not actual erosion . |
| 28 | Many of the children will have experienced poverty and insecurity , if not actual neglect , and may well have been known to the health or education authorities as children at special risk before they come into the care of the social services department . |
| 29 | If there is one aspect of growing roses that creates a degree of bewilderment — if not actual fear — in the minds of gardeners , it is pruning . |
| 30 | I met Jenkinson briefly and he seems to have plenty of practical , if not authorial experience ; there is apparently a profile of him in January 's EFL Gazette . |