Example sentences of "not the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He creates a new set of skills , not the skills to do with refinement of speech that the Speech and Drama experts had a vested interest in , but life-skills . |
| 2 | It was the Indians they hated down here , not the whites . |
| 3 | Not the whites . |
| 4 | But the Board of Trade had a great deal of latitude to vary the precise details of the arrangement , and insisted that , for discs , the records should bear the stamps , not the sleeves . |
| 5 | These were not the trappings of some Victorianising interior decorator . |
| 6 | Well , the purpose of the County Council is to draw up a greenbelt local plan , and therefore it is a question of whether or not the sites fulfil or do not fulfil a greenbelt purpose . |
| 7 | Culture , after all , is a collection of beliefs and assumptions and behaviours that belongs to the members , not the managers . |
| 8 | ‘ Not the baskets , ’ said Davide . |
| 9 | Another suggests that Dom Pérignon spent several years in the Benedictine monastery at Alcántara in Spain and that it was he , not the monks of Santiago de Compostela , who brought the cork to Hautvillers . |
| 10 | There are no tears , no recriminations , and if he has anything to say to his team afterwards , it 's the team he talks to , not the tabloids . |
| 11 | Apart from the ‘ George And James ’ and ‘ Stars And Hank Forever ’ album , Goldmine claims that the project got no further than the ‘ It 's A Man 's Man 's Man 's World ’ video and 45 , adding : ‘ It 's not quite clear whether or not The Residents ever got to work on Volume Three — which would have featured the compositions of Bob Dylan and Sun Ra — but leftovers from the earlier volumes occasionally crop up as rare treats , such as ‘ I 'm So Lonesome I Could Cry ’ on the ‘ Potatoes ’ folk song composition . ’ |
| 12 | HongMid possibly thinks that , now that the Japanese banks have abandoned their role as lender of first resort and some of the borrowers are not the forces they were , global banking might make sense again . |
| 13 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 14 | Benjamin seized his torch , brought the flame as near as he could and examined not the wounds , but rather the dead priest 's shabby , bloodstained tunic . |
| 15 | And when we get home again I shall tell him the truth — about who I am , and about Havvie , not the lies about being a governess , and Mama and Papa being dead . |
| 16 | That is what the country is concerned about , not the lies , smears and distortions organised by Tory central office and the Tory press against the Labour party . |
| 17 | He told us , ‘ Our people all want MRA to change the whites , not the blacks . |
| 18 | The question is whether or not the syndicates running off their future liabilities did so in utmost good faith by revealing all pertinent facts about the contract . |
| 19 | come on down … no not the jetskiers but you … its competition time … pens and paper ready … we 've Nigel Mansell 's new book and two of his hats to give away … so let's get going |
| 20 | come on down … no not the jetskiers but you … its competition time … pens and paper ready … we 've Nigel Mansell 's new book and two of his hats to give away … so let's get going |
| 21 | Holiness , sanctification , living of Godly life , living a pure life they 're not the criteria , they 're not , they 're not , God requires that of us , but they are not requirements for receiving the Holy Spirit . |
| 22 | It was a starry night that night , and by leaning against the cold window Boy could see the stars , not the stars of The Bar ceiling now , but the real ones . |
| 23 | Inside and outside converged ; it was possible to forget that the lanterns were not the stars . |
| 24 | Not the stars and stripes Not the cross . |
| 25 | It 's not the tears that fall at the time , |
| 26 | In the late eleventh and twelfth centuries city after city set the bishop aside ( often with his consent ) and established committees of consuls , or some other ruling authority , not perhaps quite democratic — for they represented the powerful citizens , not the polloi — but reflecting a new and vivid aspiration . |
| 27 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 28 | ( Not the Streams of Lethe more ) |
| 29 | For it seemed to him that the benches and bin he suddenly saw were bigger than normal and that behind them there loomed not the curves and familiar shapes of the black-painted Victorian Cages , but greater shapes that pointed darkly to the sky as mist enshrouded them in grey and made them seem alive . |
| 30 | Her conscience had woken her , not the footsteps . |