Example sentences of "to [adj] [conj] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Critics saw the policy as a legacy of the NCTA and applicable perhaps to technical but not higher education . |
| 2 | During a five-day fast , Joanna showed a ‘ very marked improvement in her condition ’ and when subsequently challenged with individual foods , she responded sharply to some but not others . |
| 3 | Further , there are so many instances of what I call ‘ partial mens rea offences ’ , that is crimes in which mens rea runs to some but not all of the elements in the actus reus , that the alleged principle simply does not square with the data . |
| 4 | No principle is discernible , nor has any been suggested , to explain or justify the giving of corporate status to some but not to other government authorities . |
| 5 | As Mrs Parvis had explained to Gloria when they first arrived , ‘ I 'm in no position to go showing no favouritisms to some and not to others . |
| 6 | The attachment of importance to some and not other concepts within a particular theory is generally a reflection of certain underlying assumptions held by a theory about how society as a whole is organized and how it changes . |
| 7 | Linked to this but not directly invisible earnings is another £1.9 billion paid to British Carriers . |
| 8 | We 've also seen it happening , to an extent in properties in Bishopsfield as well erm I really think we need to get to grips with what we seem to be doing , which de-counting people prematurely early er , in response to , to housing developments which we are planning to undertake in in partnership with other people and leaving ourselves open to this and not |
| 9 | If this theory is correct , the term ‘ metaplasia ’ is a misnomer : metaplasia implies a change from one differentiated cell type to another and not the induction of a novel cell lineage . |
| 10 | First , they need a well proven advanced technology to minimise the risk of moving from a departmental system supporting up to maybe 100 users to hundreds if not thousands of users . |
| 11 | First , they need a well-proven advanced technology to minimise the risk of moving from a departmental system supporting up to maybe 100 users to hundreds if not thousands of users . |
| 12 | Such is the general expectation that married couples will have children that those who do not want them , or want to put parenthood on a few more years , or sadly learn that they can not conceive , find themselves having to respond to veiled or not so veiled queries . |
| 13 | They would go for weekends to comfortable but not flashy hotels , show her places he knew . |
| 14 | So the total for the week , including practice days , is expected to equal if not surpass the 1989 figures . |
| 15 | So the total for the week , including practice days , is expected to equal if not surpass the 1989 figures . |
| 16 | ‘ Quality assurance ’ is a fundamental part of the Education Act 1988 and is central to many if not all of the reforms . |
| 17 | Counting to ten and not shouting back at yet another unreasoning and unreasonable parent is difficult . |
| 18 | Its failure to take the market , in Slater 's view , was due to strategic and not technical reasons . |
| 19 | The first of these putative Na + /H + exchangers has 95% homology with the previously cloned human fibroblast Na + /H + exchanger , with which it also shares several functional characteristics , including extreme sensitivity to amiloride. furthermore , immunocytochemical studies showed that polyclonal antibodies to a fusion protein incorporating this sequence localise to basolateral but not apical membranes from rabbit ileum . |
| 20 | The consequences of Lloyd George 's containment of pacifism in the early months of 1918 were to be inscribed in the history of Europe over succeeding decades — down to 1945 if not beyond . |
| 21 | That applies to most but not Faldo . |
| 22 | Both men were now smiling genially ; the sort of smile people give to earnest but not very bright children , or to social inferiors . |