Example sentences of "[subord] not [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More often than not community care means care by families — especially nuclear families . |
| 2 | A role model for damage control if not birth control , Grover acknowledged the son and cabled his party leaders : ‘ Above all , tell the truth . ’ |
| 3 | Local management will throw into sharp relief the fact that staffing decisions ( in turn determined by financial priorities ) can determine curriculum provision , if not curriculum policy . |
| 4 | Thus , some type of course assessment if not programme evaluation was carried out in the majority of cases . |
| 5 | Analysis of current fertility by parity , and the responses to attitude surveys , have persuaded official statisticians and some demographers ( OPCS 1989 , Shaw 1989 , Brass 1989 ) that fertility in Britain is likely to return to a higher , if not replacement level . |
| 6 | Whether or not it was ‘ in their haste , their unwillingness to temporise , that the Vietminh leaders , with their fathomless vanity , had driven their country straight into conflict with France ’ — the reproach of Vietnamese intellectuals and non-marxist nationalists — it was a rather academic if not drawing-room argument that the Vietminh could easily have brought about national unanimity and created a national state rather than revolution and the party state . |
| 7 | Western students divide roughly into those who find continuing enlightenment in the concept of ‘ totalitarianism ’ and an increasing number for whom the ‘ ideological and organisational unity ’ and ‘ monolithic cohesion ’ of the CPSU rule book is , if not Potemkin facade , of declining utility to the real stuff of policy-making . |
| 8 | They will be useful for Attainment Target 2 ( Interpretations of History ) though not Attainment Target 3 ( Using Evidence ) . |