Example sentences of "[verb] not the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the rest of this chapter we examine not the trial stage , but the one prior to that — the search . |
| 2 | Section 25 of The Children Act requires local authorities to make an application for a secure accommodation in the family proceedings court not the youth court . |
| 3 | ‘ The time is ripe to abandon not the rank structure but the tendency to impart fashionable management theories which are not necessarily appropriate to policing and which only confuse supervisors throughout the service . |
| 4 | This ought to go in the paper Mary , not boot not the car boot . |
| 5 | Instead , the logical policy is to tax consumption , at a rate which reflects not the disposal cost of a good but the costs which would be inflicted on society if it were illegally dumped . |
| 6 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 7 | ‘ One can only speculate what would have happened had this not been done but I seriously doubt if we would be meeting here today had not the capital infusion been made in 1990 and this plan put into place and well executed . |
| 8 | ‘ The unfortunate creditors , it was obvious from the nature of the cases , could never have recovered the debts , had not the County Court been established . ’ |
| 9 | Today I was following not the valley path of the corpse way but the pathway to Keld that runs above Northgang Scar from which the views across to Black Hill and up to Swinner Gill are wonderful . |