Example sentences of "[subord] [not/n't] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A century and a half later , of course , many new fossil discoveries and much critical analysis have greatly advanced our understanding of dinosaurs , although not to the extent that the controversy and emotion first stirred up by Owen has entirely abated . |
| 2 | The chains generally concentrated in particular regions , although not to the extent of local monopoly . |
| 3 | Common action on issues at a local level seemed threatened , but at no time did the war seriously compromise the determination of labour leaders to defend living conditions ; in many instances the struggle was intensified , although not to the point of sabotaging the war effort . |
| 4 | Revamped neofascist parties , such as the DVU , also rely upon primarily electoral strategies , although not to the exclusion of courting skinheads or expediting violence . |
| 5 | Nuno 's ability is a matter of opinion , but the point about the Trantec ads is a matter of fact , although not for the reason your correspondent quotes . |
| 6 | The media were also out in force , although not with the blessing of the Thompson family or their friends and associates . |
| 7 | On Jan. 10 , 1989 , Bossano met the mayor of the Spanish border town of La Línea to discuss the joint development of the area which could include Spanish use of the port at Gibraltar ( although not of the airport ) . |
| 8 | Third , the centre has collapsed as a political force — although not as a constituency — and this obliges both major parties to compete more assiduously for middle-of-the-road votes . |
| 9 | The latest CBI surveys suggest that more stockbuilding has indeed occurred , although not on a scale sufficient to explain the trade figures . |
| 10 | I I I do differ with that in some respects , in that er until we 've arranged the agenda we 're not always sure whether there will be specifically highway matters , er and er I must confess , although not on the agenda very often , highway matters are things that that that that do get commented on , er but er none the less , it 's just the principle , I mean er it 's a bit difficult to start saying , well do we send it because we have particular things , er or or |
| 11 | There may be services rendered by the police which , although not within the scope of their absolute obligations to the public may yet fall within their powers , and in such cases public policy does not forbid their performance . |
| 12 | Although not in a sense surprising , the impact of the bare facts is nonetheless considerable : for it emerged that these women spent an average of over three hours on weekdays on various caring activities compared to the 13 minutes offered by men ! |
| 13 | This does not affect the cogency of his criticism and prognostication — the cultural barbarism which he feared has perhaps descended , although not in a form which he could have envisaged . |
| 14 | Many fruits change colour as they reach maturity and this can be a useful indicator , although not in every case : apples will often colour up early if occupied by a burrowing pest , some pear varieties only change colour once in store and marrows are past their best when they turn yellow . |
| 15 | If we take reciprocal altruism seriously , method ( ii ) might conceivably operate in animals , although not in the case of age queues ; methods ( i ) and ( iii ) could not . |
| 16 | He had succeeded his father on the board of the Great Western Railway , although not in the chairmanship . |
| 17 | Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration , although not in the way he envisaged in 1936 . |
| 18 | Hanns , although not in the company , was one of John 's group once he arrived in Britain about the same time , and another of the dancers , Peter Darrell ( who also became , in time , a choreographer and ballet director ) was closely involved with them , although he was English . |
| 19 | He recognized that the strength of the Swiss franc would be an important factor in developing other European stores , and he knew that Geneva , although not in the forefront of the fashion world , attracted a number of the internationally rich and famous . |
| 20 | Equally absurd in this context — although not in the domain of syntactic knowledge — would be the Chomskyan argument that Shakespeare et al. |
| 21 | Visa and Access ( Mastercard , Eurocard ) , are widely accepted throughout the UK although not by the University . |
| 22 | Gable replies that to be honest he 's surprised , although not by the attitude of ‘ the old guard conservative group of three or four London reviewers ’ . |
| 23 | The choice of method of digitizing depends more often than not on the level of funding available . |
| 24 | Because the winning of seats under the STV depends more often than not on the transfer of votes from one candidate to another of the same patty , it is particularly important that they should campaign unanimously . |
| 25 | After all that toil and trouble , the outcome was the same as it is more often than not in a constituency of the Republic — the same , that is to say , as if not a single vote had been transferred : the candidates elected were those who , on the showing of the very first count , had the greatest number of first-preference votes . |
| 26 | And when this happy moment arrived , it was crowned with legitimacy , because like many tribal societies the public school was a gerontocracy-an important fact obscured more often than not in the literature by concentration on the oligarchic aspect of the power exercised by favoured groups of senior boys : prefects , athletes , bloods , in slightly differing proportions according to the slightly differing character of the individual schools , but all essentially distinguished by seniority . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Most of the hotel 's rooms have views over the sea , if not over the swimming pool , and the scuba diving school gives novices the opportunity to discover the delights of the Seychellois underworld . |
| 29 | And even without the separation of ownership and control , business complexity and the ‘ organisational distance ’ of shareholders from managers make owner control over the quality of management decision making , if not over the quality of managers , a fiction , suggesting a need for alternative mechanisms for supervising managerial competence . |
| 30 | How then were they kept alive and fresh in the hearts and minds of English folk , if not through the chapman ? |