Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vyshinsky made what Bevin described as ‘ an interminable speech ’ in which he quoted extensively from the agreements reached at Potsdam and stated that under the Potsdam terms the Council of Foreign Ministers and not the FEC was the relevant body for negotiating a peace treaty . |
| 2 | Two real doctors , hundreds of real stories and not a colostomy pun in sight . |
| 3 | Similarly if junior managers receive a three per cent salary increase , middle managers receive a five per cent and top managers a ten per cent increase the overall rise in salaries must be calculated from the original absolute numbers and not the percentage changes . |
| 4 | Over the fifteen years that Motability has been established , there have been powerful disagreements but not a whisper of hostility . |
| 5 | It might be that this season will be his last chance , that he is a manager who can win Cups with short sprints but not the silverware that goes with marathons . |
| 6 | For Opposition Members to suggest that we should have nuclear weapons but not the ability to test shows how little they understand the responsibility that lies with a nuclear power . |
| 7 | The board had decided on another candidate , an orthodox pathologist with predominantly clinical and descriptive interests and not an experimentalist . |
| 8 | Control subjects experienced the critical cues but not the sucrose . |
| 9 | The equations in ( 6.20 ) embody the hypothesis of rational expectations but not the assumption of structural neutrality . |
| 10 | We 've got some small ones but not a lot I do n't suppose . |
| 11 | You would n't see anybody walking round these big buildings and not a soul in sight . |
| 12 | Domestic technology affects particular tasks but not the job of housework as a whole . ) |
| 13 | I was last on the County Council between nineteen eighty one and nineteen eighty five , and I was on the Gipsy Working Party at that time , and nothing happened except scandalous public meetings where officers were , were allowed to be crucified by Conservative chairpersons and not a site appeared , public or private . |
| 14 | IVA seems to be an unacceptable way of avoiding genuine creditors and not an option to be taken by professionals . |
| 15 | Seventeen blissful years with nary a thought of green sunblock , purple reflective goggles or navy blue knockers and not a knot in my stomach , in anticipation of hurtling off a glacier with sweat running down my longjohns into my boot-bindings . |
| 16 | During pre-trial hearings at the Old Bailey , Mr Greenway 's counsel argued that he should be tried by his fellow MPs and not a court of law . |
| 17 | The teaching has given the pupils the necessary facts but not the help to consolidate understanding in writing ( or indeed in talk ) , nor to master the compositional abilities to realise the understanding successfully . |
| 18 | There is no baby Jesus , no three wise men and not an angel in sight on the cards sent out by these famous names . |