Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [prep] the other " in BNC.
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| 1 | But is it a dialogue , or does each blackbird whistle for itself and not for the other ? |
| 2 | Those who kill and are convicted of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility are no less dangerous than those convicted of murder , and yet the judge has sentencing discretion in one case and not in the other . |
| 3 | And no one else can say of me that I know in one case and not in the other , because for all I know I am wrong both times . |
| 4 | Yes , of course you could , and not just because there 's pretty coloured pictures in one and not in the other although that 's part of it , that 's part of the presentation . |
| 5 | I am therefore not convinced that the distinction is a sufficient basis for concluding that the Secretary of State is bound by the judicial view for one class of case , but not for the other . |
| 6 | Yet if a naso-temporal difference exists for one eye but not for the other , the set-up is not balanced with respect to left and right visual fields . |
| 7 | Oh , so it 's alright with one but not with the other ? |
| 8 | There may be rare instances where a situation can be covered by one meaning but not by the other ; a police investigation might conceivably report that " criminal activity " ( associative use ) " in the southern suburbs includes ostentatious donations to charity in order to cultivate an image of respectability " ; a lawyer might jocularly speak of criminal activity having sharply increased in his legal chambers ( though intuitive awareness of the ambiguity might just as well make him avoid the phrase ) ; in both these cases the associative interpretation , only , is required . |
| 9 | This will not be the case if , for example , Uruguay could have supplied the parties with a commodity that , though useful to both , was in short supply in one country but not in the other . |
| 10 | The difference between the two institutions resides precisely in the fact that currency realignment is possible in one case , but not in the other . |
| 11 | In other words , if the legal discourse had exactly paralleled the everyday discourse it would not have been possible to achieve a solution in one but not in the other . |
| 12 | For : p1 occurs in one decomposition but not in the other since ( i ) p1 is not equal to any of unc and ( ii ) p1 can not be equal to any unc ( or else unc whence unc which is impossible — why ? ) . |
| 13 | Individuals may perform either role by itself ; or they might be active in both roles , and successfully at that ; or they may be strong in one but not in the other . |
| 14 | We are already in a position to give reasons for many of the cases of uneven distribution , where an adjective is grammatical in one of the two positions but not in the other , beyond simply making some such observation as " the following adjectives are unacceptable in predicative position " . |