Example sentences of "[conj] not [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Similarly , if you ever notice someone having a ‘ good ’ positive argument , even if they seem quite passionate , if you are allowed to listen , try and see what keeps it all on the straight and narrow and allows a beneficial and not destructive outcome to be the result . |
| 3 | Plaintiffs may sue for libel even though they have suffered no financial loss but for slander ( with certain exceptions ) they must be able to prove actual damage and not mere injury to feelings . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of all types of education , professional courses experience the tension between theory and practice most strongly , because they give considerable if not equal weight to each . |
| 6 | The social reality is that the uses of ‘ history ’ , if not always as crude and blatant as this , always involve selection , speculation and hypothesised connections , and that the scholars operating this process are products of a specific society , speak its language and are imbued with its ideology , so their work must always bear a complex if not tangential relationship to ‘ reality ’ and ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 7 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |
| 8 | Import tariffs imposed by each Western country can also vary , depending on the countries involved , and makes a small , but not insignificant difference to the price . |
| 9 | My general view on this matter , as a suitably humble outside observer , is that the student of modem sediments pays too much attention to the way these sediments are laid down , their form and composition , but not enough attention to the question of whether or not they stand any chance of preservation for the stratigrapher of tomorrow . |
| 10 | It is logical that they revealed an intimate but not servile attachment to the achievements of past master sculptors . |
| 11 | While not all reference to building surveyors is quite so supportive , clearly this Committee has a new perspective . |