Example sentences of "[subord] not [adj] [noun] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | There is little doubt that use of a full harness prevented serious if not fatal injuries to the pilot . |
| 6 | While not all reference to building surveyors is quite so supportive , clearly this Committee has a new perspective . |