Example sentences of "[coord] not [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be a few instances where a client may come back a year later and say erm , or not nearly six months later , that thing I told you was not in fact now going to be on . |
| 2 | Women do need to become much more political , because the rules are defined by men and politics , as in fact has just been pointed out , are defined by men , in subtle ways as well a structural ways , and one of the subtle or not so subtle ways is in fact to insist that parliaments starts that ten o'clock in the morning |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | a person of one sex is treated less favourably , on the ground of sex , than a person of the other sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 5 | Direct discrimination against a married person occurs where a married person is treated less favourably on the grounds of marital status , than an unmarried person of the same sex would be in the same or not materially different circumstances . |
| 6 | Whether or not all such bodies were bona fide trade unions seems to be questionable . |
| 7 | However , where we can not identify a triple alliance , a society may still be dominated by a transnational capitalist class whose practices are genuinely transnational whether or not all three parties are represented . |
| 8 | Whether or not further concealed households are formed over the next fifteen years , seems to me to be an irrelevance . |
| 9 | Mostly shops and not as easy targets or not as deserving targets but just as targets . |
| 10 | Buildings — and not just historic ones — represent energy , labour and materials , which either can not be replaced or can only be replaced at enormous cost . |
| 11 | But the brief also instructed that it was to be ‘ a lively , humorous paper that covered all aspects of life and not just current affairs . |
| 12 | The Gann Report received qualified approval from the colleges , though in many quarters regret was expressed that it had not taken the opportunity to recommend a single validating body for all courses in art and design , and not just non-advanced ones , and that its proposal for two different types of courses was ‘ elitist ’ and a vain attempt to separate the sheep from the goats . |
| 13 | The findings should indicate whether children can use language to describe fictional and not just actual situations . |
| 14 | It is part of our collective political morality that such compromises are wrong , that the community as a whole and not just individual officials one by one must act in a principled way . |
| 15 | And again , ‘ people are more conscious of the widening circle of violence , involving more and more the decent , public-spirited people of the province and not just riotous bullies who may be creating the violence themselves . ’ |
| 16 | Will he assure the House that the new planning practice guidance that he is to issue will give planners teeth , and not just false teeth , to deal with the unauthorised developments being built all over the country ? |
| 17 | And not just any soldiers . |
| 18 | This book should assist this process and help practitioners focus on what personal qualities and skills they bring and not just those areas in which help and information may be required . |
| 19 | ( Investments here , as throughout this book , are taken to be significant investments and not just minor replacements of facilities . ) |
| 20 | What the public wanted was a good rail service and not surprisingly successive generations of British Rail managers put their major effort into achieving that . |
| 21 | Two other specialized functions , those of religion and industry , stand out from the mass and not surprisingly numerous settlements throughout the empire can be shown to have developed around important sanctuaries or centres of manufacturing and extraction . |
| 22 | All patches identify themselves by name , like ‘ Vibes ’ or ‘ Syn Horn ’ and not surprisingly these patches dish out realistic vibes and synth horn sounds . |
| 23 | The occasion of a partner leaving or joining the firm should always be taken as the opportunity to update the provisions of the agreement and , since each single provision is properly looked at in the context of the entire document , it is the whole agreement which should then be reconsidered and not simply isolated clauses . |
| 24 | And like the muffled grinding of some small , expensive part of your motor which announces unhappiness in the bearings , your body can only make its inner unease known by strange and not easily intelligible signs . |
| 25 | Two-thirds of the ground floor of each house in the terrace was taken up by a garage ; the door to Sybil 's stood open with the car inside but the other three were closed , revealing that the owners had differing and not particularly compatible tastes in colour . |
| 26 | It is hoped that those areas who are large in numbers will raise between three and four hundred pounds each and send this to the Treasurer before Christmas ; those areas who have fewer teachers and not so many classes are asked to raise £100 each . |
| 27 | After all he 's put the money in to pay pensions and the beneficiaries ought to have a strong hand in saying how that money is used , so we see half the trustees coming from the employer , the other half from the members of the pension fund , and we 've got a pension fund with the very heavy weighting of er pensioners and not so many employees and we would like to see the remaining seats er half the trustees elected , partly from the current employees , partly from the deferred pensioners and partly from the pensioners and reflecting in a broad way the numbers in each of those categories . |
| 28 | I get good days and not so good days . ’ |
| 29 | Yet she was itching to move to the metropolis and bombarded her parents with subtle and not so subtle requests . |
| 30 | One of this periodical 's editors , the radical journalist Nikolai Chernyshevskii , had been behind the publication of Kavelin 's work in The Contemporary and was finding many subtle and not so subtle ways to advance reform in the St Petersburg press . |