Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was told this and not Wilson . |
| 2 | For the British nuclear deterrent to be truly independent , it should be based upon British and not US delivery systems . |
| 3 | The Supreme Court relies on the language of equal protection to strike down state legislation that recognizes fundamental rights for some and not others . |
| 4 | I think that by the end of '92 she will be the World No. 2 if not No. 1 . |
| 5 | Life for me would be empty and not life , a mere dragging on of weary time , perhaps not that . |
| 6 | Modernists of the 1910s had been Latin-lovers , and often enough ( like Pound and Eliot ) immigrants ; Bloomsbury was ardently francophile ; and in the 1930s W. H. Auden and his school , if only to show they were not Modernist and not Bloomsbury , had haunted Hamburg and Berlin and admired German communism . |
| 7 | However , there is an expectation that children should use English and not Patwa to their parents . |
| 8 | During a five-day fast , Joanna showed a ‘ very marked improvement in her condition ’ and when subsequently challenged with individual foods , she responded sharply to some but not others . |
| 9 | One cluster of characteristics ( personality type , language context , target language , interaction with the mother tongue , etc. ) may suit some but not others . |
| 10 | Knowledge of the properties of shapes means that any exemplars can be recognized as such and distinguished from non-exemplars However , some pupils recognize some exemplars of a particular shape as such and not others . |
| 11 | Stressing that his views were personal and not society policy , Mr Adair gave as examples of tinkering with the criminal system attempts to have the not proven verdict abolished , to introduce an offensive weapons charge and to examine the number of crimes committed by people already on bail . |
| 12 | On reading the Echo report I had to look at the top of the page to make certain that the date was June 1st and not April 1st . |
| 13 | They are agents pure and simple and not factors . ’ |
| 14 | I had to sleep with it closed because if I left it open the cat would jump in and more likely than not land from ten feet on to my face — a nasty way to wake up . |
| 15 | Mr Drury said he had written to parents several times to be more considerate and not park directly outside the school . |
| 16 | Landmark stability is a prerequisite for spatial but not discrimination learning |
| 17 | Yet Gemma had shown no more than a polite interest in Almsmead while Linnet , who was very dear but not Gemma , after all , had positively thrown herself into all the excitements of housebuilding and furnishing , taking to Far Flatley as if she had been born there . |
| 18 | Any Rough or Not sheet of paper as opposed to an HP surface . |
| 19 | The undulations in Rough or Not paper allow the dusty pastel more surface area to grip to . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sure that not eating has been one of your problems , ’ she informed me . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that dishonest or surreptitious acquisition of information is usually overwhelming evidence that information was confidential and not part of the defendant 's skill and knowledge . |
| 22 | ‘ Would n't it be grand if we could show Mr. Olinton that Brownies are helpful and not nuisances at all ? |
| 23 | The national insurance scheme , on the other hand , was contributory but not means tested . |
| 24 | And when relativity came , Newton 's equations were found wanting but not Maxwell 's ; they needed no relativistic correction . |
| 25 | Let me give a few examples : I can will knowledge but not wisdom ; going to bed but not sleeping ; eating but not hunger … self-assertion but not courage … reading but not understanding … |
| 26 | This raises the possibility that a mechanism other than substrate diversion is involved or that the various eicosanoids arise from different cellular sources and substrate diversion only occurred in a cell capable of synthesising LTB 4 but not LTC 4 . |
| 27 | and we kept the homes small , about twenty in a home to make it more like home-like and not institution . |
| 28 | Moreover he argued before the judge that if any of these three sections applied to what was done by the respondent in the present case , the relevant one was section 3 and not section 1 . |
| 29 | Mr Shevardnadze says local Russian commanders are responsible and not President Boris Yeltsin . |
| 30 | A MINUS B will be the set of tuples ( figure 4.3(d) ) who attend module 3 but not module 2a . |