Example sentences of "[noun sg] and not the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I must mention that this is my own car and not the company car , in case our car fleet manager is getting worried !
2 Sara Calloway , of Women Against Rape , said the 18-year-old victim 's character had been put on trial and not the police officer 's .
3 In the present case , the subject matter of the invention was the practical application of a computer program , the technical effect resulting from the operation of the programmed computer and not the computer program itself .
4 As the object of my attention I have chosen the character of Anderson in Tom Stoppard 's ( 1977 ) television play , Professional Foul , though I must point out from the outset that it is the dramatic text which is the focus of my attention and not the BBC Television production , and my comments will reflect this to a large degree .
5 What you do is to select the block of text that you wish to manipulate , ie you use the pointer tool and not the text tool , and then copy it to the Scrapbook via the Clipboard .
6 To put it another way , bearing in mind that symptoms are part of the healing process and not the disease process , then particular medicines will bring about particular healing responses , that is symptoms .
7 Often , timbers dated by radio-carbon are carbonised oak and a date obtained relates to the age of the rings of the surviving tree and not the felling date .
8 The advantage of CISCs over RISCs , however , is the ability to transfer software from one machine to a more complex , faster model as most manufacturers provide customers with object code and not the source code .
9 The quicker you can get around the mast the better , some people even jump , but the main point is that both hands should hold the mast and not the uphaul rope .
10 Spray apply caustic cleaner and very gently agitate the compacted soil with the edge of a wire brush tilted so that the wire bristles contact only the joint area and not the tile face .
11 Discussing the prose poem — a form of literature which , as used by Jacob , provides one of the closest literary parallels to Cubist painting in that it embodies simultaneously actions or events normally separated by time and space , which are fused into formal , difficult but rational and understandable creations — Jacob warns the poet and artist against ‘ the too dazzling precious stones which attract the eye at the expense of the whole ’ , and adds ‘ The poem is a constructed object and not the display window of a jeweller 's shop .
12 Then comes the fun of making the pattern — and do make sure that the dimensions you are going to work to are for the full pattern and not the kite frame shape .
13 The fire , which turned out to be the real thing and not the gas imitation she feared , gave out a welcoming warmth .
14 For one thing , this is now high summer and not the hibernation season . ’
15 We should note that the small letter p is used for pressure and not the capital P. We use P for external pressure-that is , the pressure acting on a system — whereas p is used for internal pressure .
16 If a character rides a monster its points value counts towards the army 's character point allowance and not the monster point allowance .
17 Note especially that if a character rides a monster its points value is included in the Character point allowance and not the Monster point allowance .
18 Maybe they are only a crime problem and not the crime problem .
19 It frequently arises that an item is considered beyond economical repair based upon the second hand value and not the replacement value .
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