Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Mark Hateley and I have 70 between us , which is incredible , but it really does n't matter if I score or not tomorrow just as long as we get one more than Bruges . ’
2 ‘ Indeed , ’ he said flatly , ‘ we see one among them who does not serve you , Khan , or not so far as we are aware .
3 We will then let you know whether you are exempt or not as soon as possible .
4 Not a trace of the search or the find remained — or not as far as he could see .
5 And that 's a beamer , and DaSilva is , stifled in the extreme , it 's a no ball , now whether that was because it was a beamer I think , but we do n't know whether it 's overstretched or not as far as footwork was concerned , it brought a run down to square leg anyway , and er DaSilva is now eighteen , total a hundred and twelve for three . .
6 Unemployment has fallen in the county , although not as fast as in other parts of the region , but it does appear that some 800 previously unemployed Kent people have gained work as a direct result of the Tunnel .
7 This does n't show through in practice , though , since under Windows , probably one of the most graphically intensive environments you can have , screen updates are acceptably quick , although not as fast as with Windows-optimized accelerated cards .
8 At some localities , late leaching has enhanced the reservoir properties of the slope mudstones , although not as commonly as in the Z1 and Z2 Carbonates .
9 The paintings are now hung in two registers on the walls , although not as thickly as a century or more ago .
10 The same readiness to supplement the wording of an institution is also found , although not as early as the Republic : Ulpian discusses cases in which the esto of heres esto has been left out , or even the whole expression .
11 It went on falling steadily , although not so rapidly as this .
12 She was relieved the cut was small and not very deep although it was bleeding steadily .
13 The RoboCop is basically a ‘ man in a suit ’ ; but in the story he has been so reconstituted that even his skin , seen only at his face and not much there until he takes off his helmet , is supposed to be toughened like plastic .
14 A very small illumination of about 1450 , and not much more than 1½ inches square , provides an insight into how the body was wrapped .
15 The travelling , the exigencies of the business , the constant promotional activity , prolonged absences , his own mercurial nature , made life difficult for Susy if she stayed at home and not much better if she accompanied James on the circuit , something she never much liked to do .
16 So there was always that tendency in our members minds you know to refer to various districts and er earlier in my submissions I did say that there was a disparity in earnings , especially between the Scotland and England er to , to something like seven percent if not even more than that in certain undertakings .
17 But the Thatcherite counter-revolution is much more all-encompassing : it is an assault on social democracy and all that that term entails , just as much if not more so than on simply ‘ taking out ’ pockets of resistance in specific local areas .
18 Rather than modem Western beliefs being less mystic than those in antiquity , or in underdeveloped communities , they seem equally if not more so than some .
19 These are the Fieldnames but in many spreadsheets the cells in which the first row of data is entered are just as important , if not more so than the names themselves .
20 More than Stephen Duck , if not as strongly as Clare , Leapor shows that poets from the lower orders can handle formal verse with the sophistication of their Augustan exemplars .
21 tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year
22 Once through the gate to the drive he would walk fast , but not too fast since the power that ruled the night could smell out fear as dogs smell out terror .
23 A social work career was developed in connection with this work , but not so effectively as was the case in the children 's departments .
24 Jerome had done foully , but not so foully as he himself and all here believed .
25 ‘ Those notices , ’ announced Gus clearly to the general air , but not so loudly as to reach unauthorised ears , ‘ mean exactly what they say .
26 He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following .
27 The list of sins , venial and otherwise , was long , but not so long as to come as a surprise .
28 I wonder if you are using ( in lectures ) a statement I remember you making in talk , but not so far as I can recall , in print .
29 By now Dr Neil was in an agony of desire , the loved one in his arms , so near and yet so far — But not so far as he thought , for McAllister suddenly wanted more from him than he was giving .
30 Sometimes I forget people too , but not so often as places .
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