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I've recently come across a sentence and can't get the meaning of it. Could anyone please help me?

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Such books seldom indicate that the meaningful relations between the parts of this construction more often THAN NOT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH POSSESSION.

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It is more frequent for the parts of the construction to be connected by something that has nothing to do with possession than to be conected by possession.

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