Example sentences of "[subord] [not/n't] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A century and a half later , of course , many new fossil discoveries and much critical analysis have greatly advanced our understanding of dinosaurs , although not to the extent that the controversy and emotion first stirred up by Owen has entirely abated . |
| 2 | The chains generally concentrated in particular regions , although not to the extent of local monopoly . |
| 3 | Common action on issues at a local level seemed threatened , but at no time did the war seriously compromise the determination of labour leaders to defend living conditions ; in many instances the struggle was intensified , although not to the point of sabotaging the war effort . |
| 4 | Revamped neofascist parties , such as the DVU , also rely upon primarily electoral strategies , although not to the exclusion of courting skinheads or expediting violence . |
| 5 | Nuno 's ability is a matter of opinion , but the point about the Trantec ads is a matter of fact , although not for the reason your correspondent quotes . |
| 6 | The media were also out in force , although not with the blessing of the Thompson family or their friends and associates . |
| 7 | On Jan. 10 , 1989 , Bossano met the mayor of the Spanish border town of La Línea to discuss the joint development of the area which could include Spanish use of the port at Gibraltar ( although not of the airport ) . |
| 8 | I I I do differ with that in some respects , in that er until we 've arranged the agenda we 're not always sure whether there will be specifically highway matters , er and er I must confess , although not on the agenda very often , highway matters are things that that that that do get commented on , er but er none the less , it 's just the principle , I mean er it 's a bit difficult to start saying , well do we send it because we have particular things , er or or |
| 9 | There may be services rendered by the police which , although not within the scope of their absolute obligations to the public may yet fall within their powers , and in such cases public policy does not forbid their performance . |
| 10 | If we take reciprocal altruism seriously , method ( ii ) might conceivably operate in animals , although not in the case of age queues ; methods ( i ) and ( iii ) could not . |
| 11 | He had succeeded his father on the board of the Great Western Railway , although not in the chairmanship . |
| 12 | Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration , although not in the way he envisaged in 1936 . |
| 13 | Hanns , although not in the company , was one of John 's group once he arrived in Britain about the same time , and another of the dancers , Peter Darrell ( who also became , in time , a choreographer and ballet director ) was closely involved with them , although he was English . |
| 14 | He recognized that the strength of the Swiss franc would be an important factor in developing other European stores , and he knew that Geneva , although not in the forefront of the fashion world , attracted a number of the internationally rich and famous . |
| 15 | Equally absurd in this context — although not in the domain of syntactic knowledge — would be the Chomskyan argument that Shakespeare et al. |
| 16 | Visa and Access ( Mastercard , Eurocard ) , are widely accepted throughout the UK although not by the University . |
| 17 | Gable replies that to be honest he 's surprised , although not by the attitude of ‘ the old guard conservative group of three or four London reviewers ’ . |
| 18 | The choice of method of digitizing depends more often than not on the level of funding available . |
| 19 | Because the winning of seats under the STV depends more often than not on the transfer of votes from one candidate to another of the same patty , it is particularly important that they should campaign unanimously . |
| 20 | And when this happy moment arrived , it was crowned with legitimacy , because like many tribal societies the public school was a gerontocracy-an important fact obscured more often than not in the literature by concentration on the oligarchic aspect of the power exercised by favoured groups of senior boys : prefects , athletes , bloods , in slightly differing proportions according to the slightly differing character of the individual schools , but all essentially distinguished by seniority . |
| 21 | Now that the Apple Computer Inc v Microsoft Corp lawsuit has been defanged and the only thing standing between Bill Gates and world domination is the Federal Trading Commission — see page three : there may be more truth than not in the observation that Microsoft wants IBM to have OS/2 so they ca n't be accused of being a monopoly . |
| 22 | Most of the hotel 's rooms have views over the sea , if not over the swimming pool , and the scuba diving school gives novices the opportunity to discover the delights of the Seychellois underworld . |
| 23 | And even without the separation of ownership and control , business complexity and the ‘ organisational distance ’ of shareholders from managers make owner control over the quality of management decision making , if not over the quality of managers , a fiction , suggesting a need for alternative mechanisms for supervising managerial competence . |
| 24 | How then were they kept alive and fresh in the hearts and minds of English folk , if not through the chapman ? |
| 25 | Where land is registered , right gained by adverse possession amounts to an overriding interest , and defeats a purchaser even if not on the register . |
| 26 | The environment within which projects have been planned and executed has frequently allowed these questions to remain unanswered in reality , if not on the paper on which loan agreements are written . |
| 27 | And then I was late , when I got round there I thought well she 'll at least be waiting at the top of the drive , if not at the top of the road . |
| 28 | Accordingly , there was a sense in which humanity remained close to the center , if not at the center itself . |
| 29 | These authorities seem to me to leave the developing law , if not at the crossroads , at least at the junction of two diverging roads . |
| 30 | Isolated in a foreign country , and longing for all that had once been familiar , if not at the time congenial , to him , it was easy for Lear to expect of Gould what he could never give . |