Example sentences of "[subord] not [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although not without difficulties of interpretation , these experiments establish a case for presynaptic changes lasting for at least several hours . |
| 2 | Mammalian carnivores will also kill birds of prey if they can catch them at night on the nest or roost , and many of the smaller carnivores are themselves taken by larger owls or eagles , although not without danger to themselves . |
| 3 | She saw her role as purely an incubatory one , and will now return to her own work as a biologist — although not of course on this project — having made her most valuable contribution to my work . |
| 4 | Although not in flower before March , Bergenia cordifolia Purpurea is another plant blessed with evergreen foliage that has a reddish-purple tinge during winter . |
| 5 | A person who picks mushrooms growing wild on any land , or who picks flowers , fruit or foliage from a plant growing wild on any land , does not ( although not in possession of the land ) , steal what he picks , unless he does it for reward or for sale or other commercial purpose . |
| 6 | This consists more often than not in impairement of prolonged voluntary anal contraction . |
| 7 | She gathers that she has been lucky on her journey to avoid the widespread banditry , carried out more often than not by deserters from the army . |
| 8 | In both cases this was because they exceeded the 5 per cent minimum threshold in terms of votes won in what was formerly East Germany , albeit not in Germany as a whole . |
| 9 | What are we in the job for if not for challenges like this ? |
| 10 | On the basis of its fauna , the area in question might qualify for protection as a nature reserve , if not for designation as a site of special scientific interest . |
| 11 | The so-called ‘ Loony Left ’ , much invoked before the general election of June 1987 , was in some places responsible if not for vagaries in the total school curriculum , then at least for the expenditure of scarce resources on teachers , and publications , dealing with subjects dear to their hearts , like racism , sexism , and peace-studies , unpopular with government and with many parents . |
| 12 | Perhaps it is not as useless as Aristotelian logic and can lead , if not to knowledge of necessary causes and natures , then to something worthwhile nevertheless . |
| 13 | Thus , the policy context , within which the redundancies took place and which older workers experienced in the labour market , often for the first time in twenty or more years , was one of unconcern if not of antagonism to their special needs . |
| 14 | Only very occasionally is it possible to read between the lines , as in one instance at South Luffenham , where Henry Bonytt , as the sole tenant of freeholder Edward Sapcote , presumably held a lease ; he also had 10s. a year in land and a subtenant called William Clark , who must mutatis mutandis have held from him by lease , if not from year to year . |
| 15 | Managing quality in this example is based on the assumption that long-term and medium-term planning of all subjects is important , that the analysis and modification of the use of time have to be repeated from year to year ( if not from term to term ) and that targets and statements of attainment should feature in schools ' schemes of work " and provide a valuable focus for the planning and transaction of classwork by individual teachers " ( HMI 1990:14 ) . |
| 16 | The activists ' message scrawled on a wall near the ground is some way removed from the burning passions normally aroused by football , while the T-shirts are more machismo than menace , and pop songs peppered with heavy breathing are apparently in vogue if not in keeping with pre-match entertainment . |
| 17 | In the years leading up to the First World War the Hooligan embarked on a remarkable career , appearing in name if not in person before numerous governmental and semi-official bodies of enquiry . |
| 18 | Toby was in fact if not in name in charge of the twenty-seven boarders at Burleigh , and he spent much of the day with nothing to do . |
| 19 | The range of newspapers read by the bulk of the British electorate has narrowed sharply over the last two decades — in terms of the political partisanship of mass-selling papers , if not in terms of the proliferation of low-circulation titles ( Newton , 1988a , p. 320 ; Tunstall , 1983 , p. 12 ) . |
| 20 | Often a mother can understand her daughter 's needs , if not in detail at least in broad terms , and at the same time she knows that these needs are in conflict with traditional honour and respectability . |
| 21 | Among other activities , building societies are now permitted to make and receive payments as agents , to advise on and arrange insurance , to administer pension schemes , supply estate agency services and to undertake conveyancing ( though not for persons to whom they are also offering a loan ) . |
| 22 | The epitome of Nineties value rather than volume has become just that , after having been not terribly good at being the Eighties thrusting stereotype — though not for want of trying . |
| 23 | Maxwell came quite late to newspapers , though not for want of trying : in 1968 , for instance , he was a loser in the battle for the News of the World . |
| 24 | ‘ What a strange demand ! ’ says Lebyadkin with an effrontery beyond the man we have been given , though not of course beyond old Karamazov . |
| 25 | Colonel Blimp today is likely to be a Roundhead colonel , in his professed sentiments a Leveller , though not of course in his practices . |
| 26 | Socio-economic problems remained largely the same in 1905–14 and 1922 in Kursk guberniia ( though not of course in the Lower Volga area on account of the Famine ) . |
| 27 | Personally Radcliffe-Brown could appear politely overbearing on a wide variety of subjects , and in later life somewhat aloof , though not without glimpses of his urbane sociability and intellectual panache . |
| 28 | Though not in favour of DJs wittering on about their birthdays he does n't he was no doubt grateful for these . |
| 29 | Finally , in an indirect way , one aspect of the beneficial health effects of healthful childbearing patterns also gained recognition in the Plan of Action , though not in connection with morbidity and mortality but with reduction of birth rates . |
| 30 | Each sovereign speaks with a single voice , though not in harmony with other sovereigns . |