Example sentences of "[noun] not the [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | This time she understood it was the drawing not the lifting of a veil . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Benetton just showed us the pictures not the background to the pictures . |
| 6 | her sons not the name of her then |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No , My Lords , I entirely disagree with the Noble Lord er furthermore as I 've already said we 're talking the builders site not the library in today 's question . |
| 9 | Does the occasional slap do a child no harm , or is physical punishment not the solution for a misbehaving youngster ? |
| 10 | If this hypothesis is true then the enormous international coalition against Iraq , under American leadership , is the end of an epoch not the beginning of a new one . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | The problem is that saying this , or offering any simple definition for other than heuristic purposes , is the beginning not the end of inquiry . |
| 13 | Is open access not the result of political dogma rather than practical hard-nosed business analysis ? |
| 14 | Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather . |
| 15 | ‘ O'erstep not the modesty of nature ’ , Shakespeare , Hamlet , III . |
| 16 | It is suggested that in the context of a monogamous union , adultery was elevated to the status of a sin ( or indeed a crime ) and grounds for divorce so as to reinforce this concept of marriage and , in the absence of birth control , to prevent the social ‘ untidiness ’ caused by the production of children not the product of a couple married to each other , with all the inheritance and support complications which could follow . |
| 17 | A. Not the end of the world , though — not quite ! ( sotto voce . ) |
| 18 | He also claims that it is desirable to think ‘ intuitively ’ and not by logical steps , but again logic is the exception not the rule in human thought and all the greatest scientific discoveries have been made by the use of informed intuition , Ornstein believes that the right hemisphere is underdeveloped in Western man and the spiritual growth depends on expanding its activities . |
| 19 | So is this apathy and lack of interest not the result of a political system which dissuades people from taking an active role . |
| 20 | Carbonate which is not quite the salt not the sort of thing you get from an acid normally like sulphuric , sulphuric acid give you the sulphate . |
| 21 | In an article published the same year , Kevin Sharpe questioned whether it was entirely accurate to label Laud as an Arminian , stressing that the archbishop saw as his main task not the propagation of a new theology but the prevention of divisive doctrinal debate . |