Example sentences of "[conj] not [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there is an expectation that children should use English and not Patwa to their parents . |
| 2 | A. C. Benson was Master of Magdalene College , Cambridge , and not Magdalen in Oxford . |
| 3 | IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge . |
| 4 | Police said a warning given 30 minutes before the explosions identified Liverpool and not Warrington as the target . |
| 5 | You will also see that we have programmed in the September 1990 Q.T. Day , sot hat in 1990 our year will run from January to December and not September to September as in the past . |
| 6 | Carol Wilson , who had joined in Music Publishing and signed Sting 's songwriting to the company ( but not Sting as an artist ) had developed her own label , DinDisc , under the Virgin umbrella , which in 1980 gave the company one of its best-selling artists , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark . |
| 7 | However , on Dec. 17 a motion which the Socialists had helped to draft , to indict Hervé and Dufoix but not Fabius for " failing to assist people in danger " , was blocked when the Socialists changed their minds and refused to vote on the motion as it stood . |
| 8 | The Senate initially voted , on Dec. 10 , to bring Dufoix and Hervé but not Fabius before the court . |