Example sentences of "[noun sg] not [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 2 | In other words , major inward investment not relocation of major investment within the U K but major inward investment from say Western Europe or Japan or wherever . |
| 3 | You 'll be all right in a couple of days , they said , and in her disorientation Chesarynth thought , Days are geography not time . |
| 4 | He loved sex too much to condemn any expression of lust , and though he 'd discouraged the homosexual courtships he 'd attracted , it was out of indifference not revulsion . |
| 5 | The terms have been cropping up increasingly in this magazine and elsewhere : ‘ the London funk ’ , ‘ the drum and bass groove ’ , ‘ the jazz not jazz explosion ’ … a myriad of catchphrases for records that refuse to sit within any one easily categorised genre . |
| 6 | jazz not jazz |
| 7 | jazz not jazz |
| 8 | jazz not jazz |
| 9 | jazz not jazz |
| 10 | The final ignominy was that it was the Environment Department not MAFF that now had to provide public justification . |
| 11 | How do you know it 's murder not suicide , Naseby ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We know it was murder not suicide , but how and by whom ? ’ |
| 13 | My Lords , it really does erm it 's a matter of Professor not Professor Judd on this occasion , it really does depend what you mean by multi-culturalism er can , can , |
| 14 | Heavy industry not toys or low quality textiles , was targeted as the driving force for development , and a vast array of incentives and restraints were applied to ensure that the strategy was implemented . |
| 15 | But to talk like this is to fall into the trap mentioned above of emphasising maintenance not mission . |
| 16 | Marketing is to do with attitudes and action not bureaucracy , paper work needs to be kept to the minimum , there is a pernicious effect of petty rules . |
| 17 | They seem to depend more on policy preferences than research and to reflect the Government 's preference for action not words , for speedy response rather than lengthy debate , and perhaps also a deep disregard for the theoretical overview . |
| 18 | Conservative M P , Patrick Cormack , asked the Health Minister at question time , ‘ if the government believes in action not words , then would she accept that action so far was unsatisfactory . ’ |
| 19 | When Ian St John and Jimmy Greaves become serious it must be time for action not talk . |
| 20 | Essentially this was administration not management , concerned with maintaining stability and the status quo rather than achieving change , with process rather than action and results . |
| 21 | The proceedings of Sir Paul Scoon after the American invasion were just as revolutionary — meaning validated by force not law — as had been the proceedings of the superseded military regime . |
| 22 | We brought the figure down having at le , and waited two years and that 's th , I think that proves the lad 's foundation to the argument of how desperate the fire service need , need this station and it has absolutely nothing to do with Dovelands school er er whatsoever as far as I 'm concerned , I 'm the spokesperson for public protection not education and that 's it and er I 'm surprised er er that I know erm er er that Mr is is a very , very good supporter of the er southern fire station and supported us in the er in the er question we asked at the last council er meeting and er I 'm surprised he has n't spoke or even Mr who er , who likes to s , who likes to speak in the chamber but I 've has n't supported the fire station . |
| 23 | The Philipson coat of arms was granted in 1581 : FIDE NON FRAUDE ( By Faith not Favour ) . |
| 24 | The old crocodile was smelling hook not bait . |
| 25 | In another sharp break with convention , the protagonist of Sonnets 127–52 ( I set aside 153 and 154 , two sonnets on themes traditional since the Greek Anthology , which do not seem to belong to this sequence ) gives his mistress not compliments but insults , or mock-compliments , and that at the level of the body alone : sex without love , as it were . |
| 26 | Erm , sorry of Agriculture not Education |
| 27 | No centenary park not centenary sports ground then ? |
| 28 | D' you think there 's anything further in me considering my ideas of them having half an hour not working session a week ? |
| 29 | It 's fiction not fact |
| 30 | CHOLESTEROL not calorie , appears to be the watchword of the 1990s but how do you know what your cholesterol level is ? |