Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] not [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 There has however been a slowdown in the French nuclear programme though not for the usual reasons of safety problems and public opposition .
2 Undoubtedly the natural defences of the human body held out the greatest promise of further success , and undoubtedly , in England if not in the world , Sir Almroth Wright was the leading expert in devising ways of stimulating such defences .
3 Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly .
4 They form the basis if not of the Federalists ' philosophy , then at least of much of the present movement towards a Federalist structure for Europe .
5 The press are still hanging around in dribs and drabs and I feel safer confined to my room when not at the theatre .
6 Visa and Access ( Mastercard , Eurocard ) , are widely accepted throughout the UK although not by the University .
7 Visa and Access ( Mastercard , Eurocard ) are widely accepted throughout the UK although not by the University.The main Edinburgh offices of the four major Scottish Banks are :
8 Any particular location only appeared once in the 48 stimuli , however , stimuli consisted of 24 pairs where the two films in any pair showed an identical manoeuvre in similar traffic conditions although not at the same location .
9 In the present climate of successful superpower arms limitation talks it is likely that there will be substantial changes if not in the level of military budgets , in their composition .
10 Mm , well , bread on the waters if not on the waters of the Severn , any other comments ?
11 George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more .
12 ‘ And he seemed such a nice young man , ’ said Ianthe helplessly , for by what standards was one to judge the kind of person who might be allowed to take a book out of the library if not by the usual ones of manner , speech , dress , and general demeanour ?
13 It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason .
14 First , as a criticism of the sheer impracticability of the grandiose project Owen had in 1833 put to the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes and which still survived in the objectives though not in the activities of its even shorter-lived successor , the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union , the Webbs ' case succeeds .
15 However , to manage an artisan workshop at very least implies a possession of the knowledge side of a craft if not of the actual making .
16 They had all slept heavily , the sleep if not of the just , of the innocent and artless .
17 We all waved at Uncle Wullie , in spirit if not in the flesh .
18 He wonders why Thorneycroft was pulled out of the student squad and Pepper was not when it 's obvious that openside flanker is a position where England have strength in depth whereas not on the wing .
19 And where do you imagine we collect our stores if not in the city ?
20 And would politics based on religion have disappeared in Glasgow if not for the rise of the Labour Party ?
21 Since the late 1940s the Queen Mother had been the darling of National Hunt racing : it was largely her enthusiasm for the sport that raised its status from that of a poor relation to the Flat to , by the mid-1950s , a position of near equality — in popularity if not in the prize money available .
22 If things go well , it seems that , certainly by the end of the century if not by the earlier date of 1997 , it may be possible to form a single currency to which Germany , France , the Benelux countries , Denmark and the EFTA countries will belong .
23 East and West went their own ways after Constantinople IV , ecumenical in the West though not in the East .
24 This paper is partly about the rejection of certain accounts of autonomy though not with the rejection of the ideal of autonomy itself .
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