Example sentences of "[subord] not [art] actual [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his own interpretation , it is the advent of Christianity and its repudiation of the material that destroyed the harmony — at which point Hölderlin 's Christian allegiance engenders , in his greatest poetry , an antithesis , if not an actual conflict between his Greek ideal and the purely spiritual aspiration appropriate to his own Protestant background . |
| 2 | POWELL : That — that nursery of traitors and nest of vipers. ( clears throat ) A phrase which has become classic if not an actual thing . |
| 3 | What with the flower sellers and the blind musician , the old man at his sewing machine , the two sisters selling maps of Delhi by the roadside and two others collecting camel dung for fuel the sights and sound if not the actual smell came flooding back , even though it 's 40 years since I was last there . |
| 4 | No doubt it was in part imagination , exaggerating the stillness , but there was no mistaking the impression that we were witnessing a general decline in fertility , a form of degeneration , if not the actual death that we imagined . |
| 5 | In Fig. 8.1. the algorithm is misled into taking the leftmost path because its actual cost , 3 , is less than the estimate , 4 , ( though not the actual cost , 2 ) of the correct , rightmost path . |