Example sentences of "[subord] not [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man died on board the Reine Mathilde when it caught fire on April 9 , sailing between Caen in France and Portsmouth , England , although not directly as a result of the fire ; arson was not suspected . |
| 2 | It is only at the wedding that the two people most concerned are actually fully involved in the decision to have a religious ceremony , albeit not always as a result of a happy consensus , but nevertheless under pressure from some influence which inculcates the belief that some benefit will accrue to the marriage from the involvement of a believed-in ‘ god ’ . |
| 3 | The entire painting was thus conceived if not exactly as a kind of memento mori , at least as a statement about sexual compulsion and gratification and concomitant feelings of disgust , danger and fear of disease . |
| 4 | Had she really agreed to live if not exactly in a wilderness , yet certainly in a place which gave every appearance of being truly rural ? |
| 5 | ‘ Estimated risk ’ will be used for the cases where a person is making an estimate of risk while not actually in a situation to experience the risk they are estimating . |
| 6 | It sounds like an organisation worth buying a raffle ticket to support though not instead of a card for your beloved , an omission which may lead to the seeking out of a CMAC counsellor . |
| 7 | Any one person may hold aspects of each together , though not necessarily in a way which is successfully integrated . |