Example sentences of "not [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | As most readers of the BMJ are not acupuncturists we found it more accurate to give the location in centimetres rather than cuns . |
2 | He stated a little later , ‘ At the start it was patriotism not communism which moved me to believe in Lenin and in the Third International . ’ |
3 | In other words , no offence would be committed if another(s) was ( or were ) not present who could be abused , insulted or threatened etc . |
4 | Well it 's not Stoke it 's Stoke . |
5 | ‘ I knew for certain when you showed me that photograph , and I realised it was Gaston , not Fabien whose picture she had kept all those years . |
6 | Let's have a look not solubles you 've got some Hang on just gon na there 's one . |
7 | It has not rituals whatever to deal with distress and grief resulting from a difficult birth or a pregnancy that ends in death . |
8 | But not tenderness she wanted now . |
9 | Well Vicky at college on our course she 's not Victoria she 's Vicky . |
10 | It 's not luck we want now . |
11 | Insurance policies which act as investments which includes endowment and unit linked policies — but not policies which merely protect against risk or pure term assurance policies . |
12 | That , no it 's not Colin he 's been in it for ages now . |
13 | They are not activities which can be accomplished with a slide rule or computer or calculator . |
14 | VIP guest George Pattison , the Dean of King 's College , Cambridge , won a rousing cheer at the ceremony when he told the crowd : ‘ I am disappointed we can not sentence anyone to the stocks today . |
15 | Ellis declined to say how much the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club is being paid for the service , but this is not money which British racing is missing out on , as a contract , subject to review after three years , was drawn up with the Racecourse Association at the beginning of SIS transmission . |
16 | ‘ It 's not money I want — it 's Ace Elliot . ’ |
17 | ‘ It 's not raisins I 'm hungry for , ’ he murmured . |
18 | ‘ It 's not Ibrahim I 'm worried about , Mike . |
19 | If , as is generally agreed , it is not Parliament itself which governs , to what extent is the Government itself , minister , civil servants , and the whole apparatus of the state , actually accountable and answerable to the Commons , and so in principle controllable by it ? |
20 | Erm yes aye that 's the Pleck that 's not Caldmore you know . |
21 | They 're not knickers it 's a flipping |
22 | They caught up with Henry 's rearguard , which was under William Marshal 's command and , in William 's opinion , would have overwhelmed them had not William himself saved the day . |
23 | I mean , people like me are the sort he expects to end up in the nick , not blokes he 'd invite to one of his do 's . |
24 | I will continue Mr Mayor that it is not meanness it is practical caring Conservative policy to ensure that this happens . |
25 | No we 're going no not Tuesday we 're going on Thursday this week . |
26 | Repeatedly , he says that to brush a vicious old woman aside like a swatted fly and get on with life is to prove oneself a Napoleon — not Napoleon himself who lost whole armies and forgot about them , but a Napoleon . |
27 | Dot , not Dot who 's the one in the room ? |
28 | If she is not data she is an intervening variable to be eliminated . |
29 | An entity is not data itself , but something about which data should be kept . |
30 | From the beginning the audiences also included women , though no women held forth there in the Age of Science of the nineteenth century — when the Curies came to England in 1903 to talk about le radium , it was Pierre and not Marie who gave the Discourse . |