Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] not [noun] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theme for the future is not education but segregation . |
| 2 | As the veteran Serb nationalist and president of rump-Yugoslavia , Dobrica Cosic , said : ‘ The dilemma is not war or peace . |
| 3 | In France the same ingredients of spectacle , song , dance , and instrumental music were likewise compounded under the influence of a humanist ‘ academy ’ , Bälf 's , but in different proportions so that the result was not opera but ballet de cour . |
| 4 | Labels and name-calling are not life and death matters . |
| 5 | This applies particularly to routines and repetitive work where the main operator limitation is not capacity or skill but stamina . |
| 6 | He felt the major risk after the war was not unemployment but inflation caused by shortages of goods . |
| 7 | Despite Karajan 's meteoric ascent to positions of power and influence after Furtwängler 's death in 1954 and Böhm 's dismission from Vienna some months later , it is clear that Karajan 's ultimate aim was not power but independence : hence the contract for life with the Berlin Philharmonic , hence the founding in 1967 of the Salzburg Easter Festival , brilliantly engineered and financed by Karajan after his return to influence in Salzburg and his eight-year reign at the Vienna State Opera . |
| 8 | While the above findings suggest that highly concrete words are equally well recognised in left and right hemispheres , it is conceivable that the relevant factor is not concreteness or imageability , per se , but some other factor which co-varies with imageability . |
| 9 | Its keynote is not anger but scorn . |
| 10 | It is important to stress that home video is not videotape but CD video with a high-quality television monitor and high-quality digital sound played through adjacent high-fidelity speakers . |
| 11 | As to inland waters , the UK apparently intends to argue that the controlling factor in eutrophication is not nitrate but phosphate . |
| 12 | Knowledge is not storage but activity and making sense of it will be very impoverished if this involves looking for only one account of it , the so-called ‘ literal meaning ’ , at the expense of all the other ‘ potential ’ meanings . |
| 13 | Remember that the ‘ players ’ in the tournament were not humans but computer programs , preprogrammed strategies . |
| 14 | However the mood that emerges from this reworking of the Hopkin tale is not anger but sadness . |
| 15 | The instructions and authority they have received from the interim government are not instructions and authority from the Government of the Republic . |
| 16 | In Charlie 's loft , they had talked through the night about the sickness money brings , the violence and fear that money brings , the corruption money brings , and all along the real subject was not fear or corruption or violence , but money . |
| 17 | A theologian , Eric Mascall , in his book Christian Theology and Natural Science , wrote about such problems that the point is that , although a physicist knows the objective world only through the mediation of sensation , the essential character of the objective world is not sensibility but intelligibility . |
| 18 | Hugh McLeod has written of the lower-class , ‘ the arbitrary ruler of their world was not God but Fate . ’ |
| 19 | The currency in this case is not money but prison sentences . |
| 20 | The object in this case is not money or prestige . |
| 21 | A few snicks have evaded the proof-reader 's gloves ; it is Arnold not Arthur Long and the Gunn who figured in Nottinghamshire 's glory years towards the end of last century was not George but uncle William . |
| 22 | Unlike the three men in the house , his problem was not boredom but stress . |