Example sentences of "though not [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour now commanded 287 seats , compared with 261 Conservative and 59 Liberal : an effective though not overall majority . |
| 2 | This would equally be coercion , though not actual violence . |
| 3 | At Oxbridge and some other colleges , teaching staff may wear academic gowns ( though not academic headgear , except at ceremonial occasions ) . |
| 4 | Friedman has written that ‘ there is a consistent though not precise relation between the rate of growth of the quantity of money and the rate of growth of nominal income ’ . |
| 5 | The Soviet leader has had a more modest , though not dissimilar effect on East Germany , where his presence last weekend became a focus for calls for change of the type so steadfastly refused by his hosts . |
| 6 | Terrace found a slight though not significant advantage for the left hemifield for these forms in contrast to a right field superiority for words . |
| 7 | If the aquarium is in bright light ( though not direct sunlight ) , the growth of algae will be encouraged , and this will provide ample food for the snails . |
| 8 | The indirect method was a natural though not inevitable growth from the fact that trustees could be selected from outside the class of heirs . |
| 9 | Public sector higher education institutions ( such as polytechnics ) have a similar , though not identical hierarchy of posts , but they are too recently established to have acquired the more colourful historic positions and titles of the universities . |