Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall not be a party to that : If Fascism was , as the Communists insisted , simply capitalism with its back to the wall , then it was realistic to see in Chamberlain 's rearmament programme not the promise of defence against German Fascism , but stage one in the construction of British Fascism . |
| 2 | And in saying this , one has in mind not the Cantos but the much more straightforward and generally serviceable forms which Pound put into currency in collections like Ripostes ( 1912 ) and Lustra ( 1916 ) . |
| 3 | No , it 's the employers ultimately who will be penalised because the employers are required to make up any shortfall in the assets of the funds not the pensioners . |
| 4 | This time she understood it was the drawing not the lifting of a veil . |
| 5 | It was becoming the rule not the exception that launches did not go right first time , but BBC2 settled down quite quickly as a recognized minority channel . |
| 6 | Family conflict and family tension certainly affect children 's mental health ( Rutter , 1981 ) and in assessing the impact of the loss of a parent through death and divorce it was the distortion of family relationships not the disruption of the bond with the parent in divorce that was critical ( Rutter , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Now the tense of the main verb , in other words not the bit in the when clause or the as soon as clause or whatever , normally virtually it gives it away because if it 's future in the main the chances are extremely high that it 's going to be future in French at least in the time clause . |
| 8 | If Spruce was ironic it was in the words not the tone . |
| 9 | A major theme of the paper was that punishment should fit the crime not the criminal , that vandals , thieves , and burglars should not be jailed for persistent offending . |
| 10 | There were already signs of the difficulties ahead in May 1990 when it was reported that in order to avert a row with judges and magistrates the Home Secretary was contemplating watering down the principle that punishment should fit the crime not the criminal . |
| 11 | Benetton just showed us the pictures not the background to the pictures . |
| 12 | and I said the bedrooms not the toilet |
| 13 | This does happen occasionally and when all else fails it is as good an excuse as any , since it puts the blame firmly where it belongs , on the fish 's shoulders not the fishkeepers . |
| 14 | What you had to do was listen for the echo not the report itself . |
| 15 | The largest cost component of an upgrade to SVGA is the monitor not the video display board . |
| 16 | her sons not the name of her then |
| 17 | do n't you remember me saying look at this bugger , when we used to go up , the Lerrick not the Odeon |
| 18 | You 're setting up and prin the setting that 's the expensive bit not the running off is n't it ? |
| 19 | Dot realized she meant the bombs not the blackberries . |
| 20 | It is feelings , the heart not the mind , which are at the core of the Green polity . |
| 21 | This exception is not only totally fair and reasonable , but it is hard to see how the seller could be in breach of a warranty of title or quiet possession since the problem is caused by the buyer not the seller . |
| 22 | Start from the P not the N |
| 23 | That one conception is somehow better than a second , supposing that that can be made out , is of course not the proposition that it is our conception or one of them . |
| 24 | What is what is the , what is the , is assessment not the word to use these days ? |
| 25 | But actually ’ — Agnes 's voice became pure Oxford ( the university not the town ) — ‘ that was just Track One was n't it ? — cover in case we noticed anything on Track Two which was a small destabilisation group . |
| 26 | The second point being that erm if a figure was to be identified for Greater York , we 'd feel that this would er unduly interfere with our duties and responsibilities as a District Council to allocate land in our district , cos in effect what it would do is direct us to making a housing allocation in one particular settlement , Shipton , we feel that 's our responsibility not the County Council . |
| 27 | However , since only 12% of the duodenal ulcer patients in a parallel , multicentre German study were H pylori negative and since , furthermore , neither the presence not the density of H pylori colonisation affected ulcer healing , it is unlikely that H pylori would have emerged as a risk factor for delayed healing in the present study . |
| 28 | All this ( the play not the soap ) is wrapped up with a fair degree of barbed wit with Finney acting big and bold as Alfred , with Stephen Moore more cagey and devious as Michael . |
| 29 | This study , like others before it ( UX No 412 ) , finds it 's the Microsoft brand not the software that 's responsible for the momentum . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's only a boy not the Friar . |