Example sentences of "[subord] not [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't going to let him see that she would jump at it , although not for the reasons he might suppose . |
| 2 | Large examples are known , however , more often than not on the fringes of the main occupied areas , as at Ashton , Baldock , Bath , Irchester and Water Newton . |
| 3 | Mm , well , bread on the waters if not on the waters of the Severn , any other comments ? |
| 4 | He would try to gain access to the palace , if not to the houses of Ipuky and Reni . |
| 5 | Watkins L.J. , at p. 82 , asked where else the Home Secretary could look for guidance as to retribution and deterrence , if not to the judges . |
| 6 | For the Iraqis , the appeal was mainly the converse : it was a means of pushing armour , if not to the outskirts of Tehran itself , at least towards other important targets on the way , such as Kermanshah ( now renamed Bakhtaran ) and Hamadan . |
| 7 | To the public at large , if not to the combatants on the right and left , it seemed that the high tide of British Fascism had come and gone . |
| 8 | All this , I argued , is at least suggestive about how we can have some form of access to the superficial form , say of our walking ( i.e. to the gross sequence of movements , if not to the nerves ) , and can impose a new walking ‘ strategy ’ to which we will then in due course ( after an analogue of compilation ) again lose access . |
| 9 | They form the basis if not of the Federalists ' philosophy , then at least of much of the present movement towards a Federalist structure for Europe . |
| 10 | As such , it is a sign , if not of the times , then of things to come . |
| 11 | This has happened in a number of developed countries — though not for the reasons given by Marx but primarily because of the growth of government and restrictive practices in labour markets . |
| 12 | The barracks known as Allenby — though not to the locals — ; were pre-1939 Wehrmacht buildings , very solid and spacious but a little worn by now . |
| 13 | But it has always been recognised that , where individuals desire that services of a special kind which , though not within the obligations of a police authority , can most effectively be rendered by them , should be performed by members of the police force , the police authorities may ( to use an expression which is found in the Police Pensions Act 1890 ) ‘ lend ’ the services of constables for that purpose in consideration of payment . |
| 14 | First , as a criticism of the sheer impracticability of the grandiose project Owen had in 1833 put to the Grand Moral Union of the Productive Classes and which still survived in the objectives though not in the activities of its even shorter-lived successor , the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union , the Webbs ' case succeeds . |
| 15 | McCoist looked to have been hauled to the ground at the beginning of the second half , though not in the eyes of the official who also booked John Brown and the Belgian , Creva . |
| 16 | Though not from the ones like you . |
| 17 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 18 | But the Bratianu family abided as often as not by the principles of its imported Western liberalism as its inherited clannishness . |