Example sentences of "not [noun] and " 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 '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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To be in good time for Christmas , why not clip and post the coupon now . |
| 6 | Someone might see and this was not Brighton and there were families about . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I would never make a pass at Caduta — no , not Caduta and if you made a pass at her , I 'd beat you up . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What were their motives , if they were not rapine and robbery ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I I it 's clearly the defendants case that it 's not malpractice and as Mr is undoubtedly going to say . |
| 13 | This is not storm and should not be dealt with as a storm damage claim . |
| 14 | As ship not powder and cannonballs |
| 15 | Something that was most definitely not thunder and lightning . |
| 16 | The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happen — it 's not gasps and blood and falling about — that is n't what makes it death . |
| 17 | At the macro level , it is power and politics , not plans and order , which transform the tired firm into something dynamic . |
| 18 | Not sons and fathers and grandfathers , but brothers every one — all the fruit of old Amos 's seed . |
| 19 | Collectively , the population of Britain perform millions of acts every day during their waking hours , yet the net result of all this is not chaos and confusion , but a reasonable approximation of order : motorists drive on the left-hand side of the road , not on the right ; shoppers offer coins and banknotes , cheques and cheque cards in exchange for goods and services , not goats and chickens or nothing at all ; love-making takes place indoors in bedrooms , and not outside on the pavement . |
| 20 | They take sea shells or pearls not pearls and they powder a bit and then put several layers on it so they are not |
| 21 | The goddess wears her aegis symmetrically over both shoulders , and under it not himation and chiton but a peplos , in a different form from the archaic ( fig. 39 ) . |
| 22 | Many of these lakes last for decades if not centuries and are used by several generations of beavers . |
| 23 | In choosing protégés the PROFITBOSS is interested only in performance and potential , not patronage and politics . |
| 24 | Finally , it is not Labour and the trade unions who are obsessed with strikes but the media . |
| 25 | Not speeches and resolutions but ‘ blood and iron ’ would solve the problems . |
| 26 | Paragraph 21 exposes a gap , pointing out that an innocent acquisition followed by a dishonest decision to keep or dispose of the property was in general not larceny and that larceny by finding was committed only where at the time of the finding the finder believed that the owner could be discovered by taking reasonable steps . |
| 27 | But , you know when I say it I 'm not Ken and and Eva are the same , they do n't go up there |
| 28 | It contains good amounts of vitamins A and D , but no minerals and not protein and is almost 100 per cent fat . |
| 29 | Not Sue and Lord |
| 30 | Bernie went up to the singer after the show and said , we thought you were called The Teenage Rebels , yet you 're not teenagers and you 're certainly not rebellious . |