Example sentences of "not [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARILYN MORGAN , section manager , in-store training , East Filton : ‘ We sell batteries but not watch batteries — they do n't take up much space . ’ |
| 2 | The clear structure of the book — reading passages , exercises and Focus sections — means that teachers who are not computer experts will find the course easy to teach . |
| 3 | We ai n't going to have an organised workload , we are not computer operators , what we are is salesmen . |
| 4 | The biorhythms program is simple and easy to use for those who know the subject but are not computer boffins . |
| 5 | The biorhythms program is simple and easy to use for those who know the subject but are not computer boffins . |
| 6 | In this guise , the computer 's role was to elaborate some of the issues which emerged in a course in which historical themes , not computer methods were the central focus . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're desk jockeys , not field men . |
| 8 | The data included the days just before delivery when , for most futures ( but not index futures ) , volume falls sharply . |
| 9 | You 've got ta burn to , to cover all they 've just laid three hundred and thirty management staff off management , not dray lads , not brewery lads . |
| 10 | This consisted of M1 plus all sterling private-sector time deposits in banks ( but not building societies ) , plus private-sector holdings of bank certificates of deposit . |
| 11 | Not vérité photographs — pretending there is n't a mind behind the camera or a finger on the button . |
| 12 | Taggers were kids who painted their names on walls , not gang members , but unarmed graffitists . |
| 13 | Several papers said so — and are still unwilling to listen to the facts which are that we are simply encouraging staff — not branch managers — to collect fees which are properly due . |
| 14 | It is a matter of pride to us that we can boast of several scholars , in the first rank , who are not university teachers . |
| 15 | the ‘ G ’ and ‘ Y ’ are not part numbers . |
| 16 | We 're not souvenir hunters . |
| 17 | It does not debar citizens of the Republic of Ireland or of the Commonwealth from membership and election of these is not unknown . |
| 18 | It 's a flexi-time job — start as long before 9 as you like and go on as long after 5 as the situation requires ( 6 , 7 , 8 — not mention weekends ! ) . |
| 19 | Technology provides trainer aids not trainer substitutes . |
| 20 | We know now why God chose us to be agents and not lollipop persons or antique dealers . |
| 21 | If we did not programme computers correctly , they would also get very confused . |
| 22 | This section applies whether or not insolvency proceedings of any kind have been taken , and it applies however long before the application to the court the transaction being impugned was entered into . |
| 23 | Hence the very important legislation of 1781 , which abolished personal servitude , though not labour services , in Bohemia , Moravia and Silesia ( it was later extended to the other hereditary provinces and in 1785 to Hungary ) . |
| 24 | The state can encourage , foster or guide , but not force producers or consumers to do what they prefer not to do . |
| 25 | Trainees are told that they are salesmen and not investment advisers or analysts . |
| 26 | ‘ Club directors are laymen and not football experts , which is why Liam has been asked to look at the team 's problems and advise us about what he is going to do about them . |
| 27 | Shares which the holder may or will be required to redeem are also not equity shares , since they do not form part of the residual interest in the company . |
| 28 | There are not side effects with specially prepared colour foods , except that any white areas on the fish may turn pink if the amount of additive is excessive , but this is more of a problem with Koi than with tropicals . |
| 29 | Would not Opposition Members like to have thought of that idea and put it through in legislation ? |
| 30 | Definitely not under-pressure Rovers manager Dennis Rofe who , nonetheless , will welcome Allison 's help three days a week . |