Example sentences of "an [adj] [conj] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These cases represent an understandable but not always comforting compromise within the framework of the EC Treaty . |
| 2 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 3 | In the open doorway stood an unkempt though not unattractive young man who was dark of hair and eye . |
| 4 | Secondary , or higher , education in that corner of Oxfordshire had enjoyed an interesting but not untypical history . |
| 5 | Pamela Walford ( Mrs Vandyke-Prince ) has had an interesting but not always easy life . |
| 6 | As with many aspects of any redistributive exercise , sensitivity calculations are an acceptable if not always convincing way forward . |
| 7 | He added that he would be speaking only as an individual and not as a representative of the Chief Police Officers Association . |
| 8 | Rushdie may not project an image immediately attractive to everyone , but that principle stands as an absolute or not at all . |
| 9 | His persistent returns to the fray helped to drive Thomson to an early grave-though not before he had succeeded in getting Palmer promoted out of Nigeria . |
| 10 | Pickup selection is via a toggle switch mounted on the upper wing' , towards the neck of the guitar , which is an unusual but not wholly impractical place for it . |
| 11 | This , for example , is why he believed Hobbes ( and himself ) to be an authoritarian but not an absolutist . |
| 12 | Scud attacks continued throughout January [ see table ] , with Patriot missile batteries in Saudi Arabia ( and later in Israel — see below ) proving an effective but not infallible defence measure . |
| 13 | The string quartet on this EMI disc promises at first to be an effective and not unoriginal exercise in the expressionist tradition , but the end result is something of a disappointment . |
| 14 | Labour now commanded 287 seats , compared with 261 Conservative and 59 Liberal : an effective though not overall majority . |
| 15 | Subtitled ‘ Patterns and Textures ’ , it somehow lacks the immediate impact of its predecessor in that whilst its contents are produced to an equal if not higher standard , the nine disks contain a stunning range of patterns and textures , they are really only of use to the professional illustrator . |
| 16 | For the children of suicides there is an equal if not greater burden to bear . |
| 17 | Structuralism is revolutionary because it can be adopted only as an alternative and not as an addition to traditional academic habits . |
| 18 | It is logical that they revealed an intimate but not servile attachment to the achievements of past master sculptors . |
| 19 | But on 4 November 1991 , the Court of Appeal ( Cooke P. , Richardson and Hardie Boys JJ. ) held that the petitioner was not entitled to appeal as of right against the judgment of the Court of Appeal dated 4 October 1991 because that judgment was an interlocutory and not a final judgment and refused leave to the petitioner to appeal to the Board . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's political as Greenfields is in an independent and not a Labour ward , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Spectroscopy — in the optical and ultraviolet parts of the spectrum — of impurities and hydrogen played an important but not wholly reliable role in estimating the temperature and density of a plasma . |
| 22 | Divine worship is an important but not the only concern here . |
| 23 | There is an important but not complete relationship between class and partisan support . |
| 24 | It was an alarming and not very attractive event in which the Bisus were treated more like circus whores than like priests , yet retained a touchingly self-possessed dignity , despite the ragging they received from their " flock " and the abuse to which they subjected themselves with their own blades . |
| 25 | While the home market may be happy with this it does mean more potential confusion , since a weapon could be an antique or not depending purely on the country in which it finds itself ! |
| 26 | Indeed , your latest victim seems to have been a veritable bundle of surprises — not a maidservant but a duchess , not dead but alive — and , to top all , affianced to an eleven-year-old and not a virgin ! ’ |
| 27 | Her mother , Juanita Beckett , daughter of a brigadier-general and granddaughter of a field marshal , was an enthusiastic but not especially talented pianist , and devoted much of her time to practising a particularly thunderous rendition of Sibelius 's Valse Triste . |
| 28 | ‘ This meeting is an educational and not a political exercise . |
| 29 | Nonetheless , to many Iranians the events proved the Shah was an American if not a British puppet . |
| 30 | Blackwell produced an ingenious if not wholly convincing scheme for a land bank , to provide credit and to help overcome the colony 's chronic shortage of specie . |