Example sentences of "[subord] not [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This possibility , although not yet on the horizon of scientific advances , is already being proclaimed as a new scourge of humankind . |
| 2 | The Secretary 's office had to double as a bridge room ( to save coal ) , and the subscription to Illustrated Sporting was cancelled , although not yet to The Tatler ! ’ |
| 3 | The Staffordshire commission of 1409–14 contained three lawyers , all active members of it , and eight gentry , who again played a part in other spheres of local government , mostly although not exclusively within the shire ( 31 , pp.340–1 , 401–2 ) . |
| 4 | Currently places within airlines are few and far between , but virtually all employable aircrew made jobless by the airline failures of the last few years have found new positions , although not always within the UK . |
| 5 | There has been a tendency in recent years for the amount of applied research in the earth sciences to increase , although not noticeably at the expense of the fieldwork-based areal studies . |
| 6 | If b 1.8 , a 2x2 or larger cluster of D will continue to grow at the corners ( although not necessarily along the edges , for large squares ) ; for b 1.8 , big D clusters shrink . |
| 7 | All three are caught from the same swims , although not necessarily at the same time , and in every case there are two-tone specimens . |
| 8 | Although not necessarily in the current economic climate . |
| 9 | By convention these will all be members of Parliament although not necessarily from the House of Commons . |
| 10 | The view that will be taken is that it does matter very much , although not quite in the way in which previous writers about environmental doom have envisaged . |
| 11 | Russ looked like a school master , although not quite in the stereotype of a middle class school teacher . |
| 12 | The food is very good , although not much like the ‘ Red Rose ’ at Lancaster ! |
| 13 | Since the onset in the late 1920s of severe economic difficulties in areas of coal-mining and heavy industry , there has been a progressive shift of employment opportunities towards the South , albeit not always at the same rate . |
| 14 | Capital Radio , the other UK giant of the independents , has already split its frequencies , and before long all nine quoted independent stations are expected do so , albeit not always around the clock . |
| 15 | The satirist , Saki , once observed that right and wrong , like the Russian Empire , had certain well-defined limits , albeit not always in the same place . |
| 16 | There has to be a freshness about teaching — it can not be pre-arranged and pre-packaged , for that almost always loses the attention of pupils , even if not also of the teacher . |
| 17 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 18 | Some people , brought up in the expectation of forging a career and getting near the top if not right to the top in their profession , may be deeply committed to their work . |
| 19 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 20 | In this case the problem comes , if not exactly within the secretary of state 's own department , at least from within a public agency . |
| 21 | For the time being at least this was almost exactly how the French were regarded by the Americans in Vietnam : of little or no account and if not exactly in the ‘ out ’ tray at best their position was ‘ pending ’ . |
| 22 | The evaluators have identified eight events which are attributable mainly if not exclusively to the project and its panel . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend the Minister must pay attention to the point that has been made — that time limits must be set for , first , appointing an inspector and secondly , the production of the inspector 's report once the inquiry is complete , if not necessarily on the length of the inquiry . |
| 24 | Indeed , using archaeological and documentary evidence , it can be postulated that , in parts of west Somerset in particular , present-day settlements are the successors to prehistoric and Romano-British predecessors , even if not actually on the same site . |
| 25 | He himself thinks of matter after the analogy , if not actually of the timber which is the concrete meaning of Greek hulè and Latin materia , at any rate of the ‘ materials ’ utilized in making an artefact ; and the usage of ‘ matter ’ has behind it a larger model , of a universe created by God for a purpose , from which the transparently metaphorical ‘ laws of nature ’ also derive . |
| 26 | ‘ I can ask no more then ; but I can add one more thing : My heartfelt thanks in that you 're free , if not actually from the house , then from its clutch of women . ’ |
| 27 | So I think that is certainly worth it , if not least for the ladies to consider . |
| 28 | Troumouse is magnificent , if not quite with the sublimity of Gavarnie because there is more grass here and the ring of mountain wall is more open . |
| 29 | And in other spheres too , such as philosophy , a figure like Schopenhauer ( to choose a single example particularly relevant to our general concern ) can be taken to represent the respect for Greek literature general among the intellectual élite of the time : in his case , Plato , above all , was not merely an interest but an important influence — if not quite to the extent he claimed himself — on his own work . |
| 30 | Serious again , he went on , ‘ A real presence sometimes , at any rate , even if not quite like the folk image . |