Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jounieh , after all , lay to the north of Beirut , not towards Israel in the south . |
| 2 | I am not against Stockton as a town , but the bureaucrats must realise that people identify with real communities not false creations . |
| 3 | Both France Télécom and Deutsche Bundespost Telekom would love to launch global telecoms joint ventures , but not with AT&T in the driving seat . |
| 4 | In both cases this was because they exceeded the 5 per cent minimum threshold in terms of votes won in what was formerly East Germany , albeit not in Germany as a whole . |
| 5 | From a sample of 162 eventual fellows of the society who had been over sixteen in 1642 , and therefore old enough to have taken sides in the civil war , and discounting foreigners not in England during the war years ( and a further 22 for whom there is inadequate documentation ) , 38 fought for , or supported , Parliament , while 85 were royalist in 1642 . |
| 6 | ‘ Not in Britain at the moment , no . |
| 7 | Mr Spicer was not in Rye for the purpose of a seaside holiday . |
| 8 | NSE 's name , and livery , was chosen to give a new character and significance to the rail system in the south east , and to emphasise its unity as a system , no longer a series of independent lines owning loyalty not to London as a whole but to long-abolished independent railway companies . |
| 9 | As she seems to have stayed on the island for only three weeks , however , being moved back to Stirling when the English army left Scotland at the end of September , we can only conclude that these are testimony not to Mary as an infant prodigy , but to her fascination as a source of romance and legend . |
| 10 | Pippin of Aquitaine is mentioned extremely briefly : he was not at Aachen in the summer of 829 , says the poet . |
| 11 | Later research shows this story to have been unlikely : the Court was not at Wilton at the time and the Earl of Pembroke was not on speaking terms with Laud . |
| 12 | The intellectual game was being played not by Eleanor in the years 1169–73 but by Andrew the Chaplain in the late 11805 . |