Example sentences of "[subord] not [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While chromatic notes more often than not make his harmony directional , they are never used to excess and always relate to the words . |
| 2 | Yeah but I 'd far sooner do that than not get off to sleep at night . |
| 3 | The proponents of the transnational relations approach have a tendency to analyze interactions within systems rather than effects of practices and , though they claim to be transcending the statecentric model , they more often than not permit the state to set the agenda for them . |
| 4 | The woman or — more especially — the man who has a deep-seated doubt as to capacity to satisfy a partner in intercourse will more often than not fail to do so . |
| 5 | Is not it clear from those figures and from many others that it takes a Conservative Government to deliver the goods to NHS patients and that all the Opposition have to offer are promises which more often than not prove false ? |
| 6 | Your puppy is tense and will more often than not cry after being taken from his litter-mates . |
| 7 | He or she will glance ostentatiously at his watch , as if to indicate that an expected arrival is late for an appointment and if he happens to meet the glance of a passer-by , he will more often than not look once again at his watch and cast a long-suffering glance at heaven ; as if by recruiting sympathy for a familiar predicament he will pre-empt any suspicion of more suspect motives . |
| 8 | These specially created ideologies more often than not give the believer a clear place in the scheme of things , by providing a definite identity . |
| 9 | More recently — in our era of politicised art — artists more often than not include texts in their works just in case you do n't get the point . |
| 10 | And to the normal layman that sounds better than not say nothing at all . |
| 11 | The tourist or business or conference traveller will more often than not travel on a plane manufactured by one of the few aerospace TNCs that dominate the civil airline industry , occupy a hotel room subcontracted to or owned or managed by the local affiliate of one of the few chains that dominate the global hotel industry , hire a car from an agency of one of the international firms that dominate the car rental industry , and will pay for all this with one of the credit cards issued by the few TNCs that control global personal finance . |
| 12 | And , although nobody wishes to be exploited with low wages and very difficult conditions , it is frankly better to find the ways and means of presenting yourself somehow , than not perform at all . |
| 13 | Perhaps if I lived in Bath I would have momentary doubts , but anywhere else in the country , I would rather die than not vote Labour . |
| 14 | When a central government department is sued , it is usual to name the respondent as the Secretary of State who is constitutionally responsible for the conduct of the department 's business ; although , of course , the decision or action being challenged will more often than not have been made or done by someone other than the Secretary of State personally ; and in the case of a geographically decentralized department , such as the Department of Social Security , the challenged decision or action may have originated from any one of a large number of regional offices of the department . |
| 15 | ‘ And I 'd adopt , rather than not have a family at all . |
| 16 | Hopefully they 're are the same as the ring , if not tick the other one . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , as Ian Harper reveals in Personal Finance , that too places unconscionable constraints on those companies that wish to grow and more may be forced to follow Scottish Equitable 's example of doing a deal with a big external investor , if not go for wholesale demutualisation . |
| 18 | So the total for the week , including practice days , is expected to equal if not surpass the 1989 figures . |
| 19 | So the total for the week , including practice days , is expected to equal if not surpass the 1989 figures . |
| 20 | Though Mosley was represented to future generations as if he had been no more than a gutter politician and demagogue , the truth was that he had first attracted sympathy — if not support from many political figures who were subsequently to disown him . |
| 21 | The solution , again , focuses upon re-educating teachers , to reduce if not remove racial and sex stereotypes . |
| 22 | Ritualized obedience , and the constable 's streetwise judgement , could in any case often limit if not prevent street conflict . |
| 23 | It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers . |
| 24 | In an attempt to forestall or derail Microsoft Corp 's likely objections to its WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface for running Windows applications under Unix , Sun Microsystems Inc is expected to reveal at the WABI launch tomorrow that it has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , its future plans for the Win16 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , this week 's issue of our sister paper Unigram.X reports . |
| 25 | It has orchestrated a Public Windows Initiative pressure group of vendors that will attempt to force Microsoft to open up , if not make public , future plans for Win16 , its 16-bit application programming interface for Windows 3.1 , so crucial for Windows developers ( CI No 2,160 ) . |
| 26 | Now , though , the group is seeking to , if not make a return to its fame of the 70s , then at least heighten public awareness of its work . |
| 27 | There is no hint here of structural explanations , still less of critical analyses of alternative political and economic strategies which might be held to ameliorate , if not cure absolutely , unemployment . |
| 28 | It is not the son of a poor carpenter whom the usurper fears , but the Messiah , the rightful anointed king — a figure who , by virtue of some inherent genealogical qualification , might rally popular support and , if not depose him , at least compromise him on specifically political grounds . |
| 29 | The aim is always to guide students to understanding and thereby to help them minimize , if not avoid , errors . |
| 30 | For Kirton , the assistant-coach position may fall slightly below his highest expectations , but will be a satisfactory position from which he can expand , if not introduce , his sometimes exotic ideas about back play . |