Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] not [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more than a mile in each direction not a tree , not a bush , scarcely a blade of grass , grew . |
| 2 | Second , raising the limit to 80 mg/litre was an administrative judgement not a medical one . |
| 3 | It happened in a rural Branch not a million miles from the Western seaboard of Ireland . |
| 4 | Field experiments with stuffed birds also demonstrate that different species of small birds all close in for the attack on a hated enemy — in this case not a predator but a cuckoo . |
| 5 | Power is a relation between social groups not a possession to be worn like a garment or flaunted like an antiracist badge . |
| 6 | Guttersnipe is loth to kick a man when he 's down but is this episode not an outstanding example of divine retribution for Cheggers Plays Pop ? |
| 7 | As Professor S.F. Bush said in The Times ( 7 October 1991 ) , it was the commercial banks not the Bank of England which generated the credit explosion in 1987–89 : ‘ A central bank , whether independent or not , is an almost total irrelevance as far as inflation is concerned in a world dominated by thousands of different monetary agencies switching assets and liabilities across the world at the touch of a button . ’ |
| 8 | It 's property owned by a public body not a private company . |
| 9 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 10 | Erm unfortunately we can only have this room not the canteen this year . |
| 11 | And secondly , drama is a social event not a solitary experience . |
| 12 | S so the , the , the really important outcome of land reform is the political and social changes not the economic changes |
| 13 | Cos I saw erm a photo when I was eighteen and I it was sort of short in the neck over my ears short in there and then sort of fuller there and then just a bit of you know a light fringe not a heavy fringe and I thought I might have it like that so |
| 14 | He can weigh up non scientific considerations in his decision , such as the effect of staff morale and relations with SLAC , but Bienenstock is hoping for a scientific solution not a political or philosophical one . |
| 15 | for the night , so , cos the woman at the hotel said er , oh she said want a double room this time not a single |
| 16 | It would be almost certain to give the strongest party not a majority of seats , but only a plurality , thus rendering it incapable of governing without the support or at least the consent of one other party . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought this was meant to be a friendly chat not a bloody interrogation . ’ |
| 18 | And I do n't I think it is no accident that the seconds criterion is the second criterion not the first criterion . |
| 19 | Then one day , when she came out of school there was a car waiting to take her for a screen test , and something magical happened as soon as she stood in front of a camera , and she became an actress , a real actress not a washed-up joke like her mother , and everyone admired her . |
| 20 | We in the G M B know about our roots and we always will because of a very , another important word we 're accountable we 're accountable in the real world to real people with real issues and real problems not the hothouse world of some sections of the Parliamentary Labour Party . |
| 21 | Then we see that all our works are an evolution and operation of nature and our real self not the executive doer , but the free witness and Lord and unattached enjoyer of the action . |
| 22 | The building of the aircraft — this was the real thing not a toy — and the fabrication of many working parts to fine tolerances brought the students face to face with many new situations . |
| 23 | Three of de Forbin 's remaining ships made a brief appearance in the Moray Firth , about 45 miles [ 72 km ] east of Inverness , where they landed a foraging party , but with these exceptions not a Frenchman set foot on what , since 1707 , could properly be called British soil . |
| 24 | My own reading of the evidence is that the wide ranging family network ( Rosser and Harris 's ‘ extended family ’ ) is fast losing all functional significance and , that being so , the elementary family of conjugal pair and children is reverting to its original condition — once again it is a domestic group not a kinship group . |
| 25 | Skynner says the question he is most frequently asked is whether therapy has not dampened Cleese 's power of comic invention : is a happier Cleese not a duller one ? |
| 26 | At least it 's a white cloud not a black one . |
| 27 | We take as the basic model not a single game , but a system consisting of a linked set of subjective games , one for each player . |
| 28 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 29 | There 's seven hundred thousand pounds not a quarter of a mile from here . |
| 30 | Well , a thousand pounds not a lot , Karen , but er it all depends what the , what what you gon na be insured for ? |