Example sentences of "not [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although each screen is deceptively complicated and takes a fair few attempts to solve , the solution is found through brain-power and not trial and error — once you 've solved a screen you 'll never forget how to do it . |
| 2 | ‘ It is important that you own the process , not AIM or whoever ’ . |
| 3 | No , not forms that are just totally in term . |
| 4 | What I have to recognise by contrast is that even now James Joyce , born a hundred years ago , brings not unity but division , nor does this division merely reflect some such crude opposition as highbrow and lowbrow , or even informed and uninformed . |
| 5 | It 's a real effort to click back to that frame of mind , which is bad because fanaticism is the true experience of pop , not discrimination and broad-mindedness — I think of the splendid devotion of all those boys and girls , who as soon as they 've got hold of the new Cure or New Order or Bunnymen record , immediately set to learning the lyrics by heart , then spend days exhaustively interpreting the Tablets From on High , struggling to establish some fit between their experience and what is actually some drunken doggerel cobbled together in a studio off-moment . |
| 6 | Well it 's gon na , mm , yeah , well it 's not pastry cos it 's flour I think we 've mixed it really , I know what you mean , we are going to tip it out of the ooh |
| 7 | Despite the current interest in the pathogenic potential of Helicobacter pylori ( H pylori ) , the question of whether or not motility and cisapride effect H pylori colonisation has not been resolved , although sketchy data are available that show that patients with dyspepsia infected with the organism have more rapid gastric emptying than healthy H pylori negative controls . |
| 8 | Such payments are properly chargeable to capital and not income and as the provision required that they be properly charged to income the relief was not available . |
| 9 | For , after all , it was not humility that restrained her from believing herself to be at first sight infinitely interesting , for she believed herself to be the equal even of Clelia Denham : it was simply a deference to the law of probability . |
| 10 | To be in good time for Christmas , why not clip and post the coupon now . |
| 11 | We will have franchisees and people who are not franchisees but just wish to run on open access . |
| 12 | Someone might see and this was not Brighton and there were families about . |
| 13 | They are flamingoes , not herons or something ? |
| 14 | If you have bulbs or sweet pea seeds in a frame buy a " safe " mouse bait like ICI Mouser to kill mice but not birds or pets . |
| 15 | At frieze-level there are not triglyphs and metopes but usually a row of small , close-set blocks , dentils , which offer no field for figure-carving . |
| 16 | I would never make a pass at Caduta — no , not Caduta and if you made a pass at her , I 'd beat you up . |
| 17 | If it is him that 's off then it not TOO bad , ( apolgies to Halvard ) at least it 's not Macca or Speed ( or even Mr Newsome ) . |
| 18 | What comes their way is not Godot but Princess Lena . |
| 19 | Because the choice of opting out is largely represented to parents , former pupils and the local community as a means of securing a better financial arrangement from the DES than has been possible with the local authority , it is sometimes argued that it is not ethos or education but funding which alone lies at the heart of the decision . |
| 20 | Yet the Japanese term normally used for the transfer , ishin , is more correctly translated as ‘ renovation , — a term which implies not retrospection but a sense of renewal and looking forward . |
| 21 | Er she had a sewing machine , she used to make er sort of shirts but not suits and things like that she did n't , she repaired them . |
| 22 | Not coins or keys : |
| 23 | In considering the claims filed against accountants , it must be emphasised that in many cases the underlying reasons for such suits are not negligence or incompetence on the part of auditors , but the consequence of faulty business policies and management decisions , or even carefully planned and executed frauds . |
| 24 | Duty and service , not freedom or happiness , are the notes which reverberate through the history of eighteenth-century Prussia . |
| 25 | What were their motives , if they were not rapine and robbery ? |
| 26 | Bourdieu wished to retain what we have learnt from structural analysis , and yet to mitigate its objectivist implications by emphasizing that such structures produce not rules but dispositions , and underlie not determinacy but strategy . |
| 27 | It was not , after all , the heroes who were parodied , nor the Trojan war and its participants : not Hercules and his exploits but their tragic heroization . |
| 28 | That 's it , the trouble is he 's not enthusiasm cos you sort of like , if you like me you get all your hopes up you want |
| 29 | ‘ It 's not chauvinism or anything of that kind , ’ Yorkshire-born Speaker Boothroyd tells me . |
| 30 | I I it 's clearly the defendants case that it 's not malpractice and as Mr is undoubtedly going to say . |