Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more than a mile in each direction not a tree , not a bush , scarcely a blade of grass , grew . |
| 2 | Field experiments with stuffed birds also demonstrate that different species of small birds all close in for the attack on a hated enemy — in this case not a predator but a cuckoo . |
| 3 | Power is a relation between social groups not a possession to be worn like a garment or flaunted like an antiracist badge . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Erm unfortunately we can only have this room not the canteen this year . |
| 6 | It would be almost certain to give the strongest party not a majority of seats , but only a plurality , thus rendering it incapable of governing without the support or at least the consent of one other party . |
| 7 | We in the G M B know about our roots and we always will because of a very , another important word we 're accountable we 're accountable in the real world to real people with real issues and real problems not the hothouse world of some sections of the Parliamentary Labour Party . |
| 8 | Then we see that all our works are an evolution and operation of nature and our real self not the executive doer , but the free witness and Lord and unattached enjoyer of the action . |
| 9 | The building of the aircraft — this was the real thing not a toy — and the fabrication of many working parts to fine tolerances brought the students face to face with many new situations . |
| 10 | Three of de Forbin 's remaining ships made a brief appearance in the Moray Firth , about 45 miles [ 72 km ] east of Inverness , where they landed a foraging party , but with these exceptions not a Frenchman set foot on what , since 1707 , could properly be called British soil . |
| 11 | My own reading of the evidence is that the wide ranging family network ( Rosser and Harris 's ‘ extended family ’ ) is fast losing all functional significance and , that being so , the elementary family of conjugal pair and children is reverting to its original condition — once again it is a domestic group not a kinship group . |
| 12 | Yet Leavis was in many respects not a man of his time ; though himself a dedicated university teacher , he was in spirit the last of the Victorian sages , who were men of letters and of affairs , not academics ( prescinding from Arnold 's and Ruskin 's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford ) . |
| 13 | There 's seven hundred thousand pounds not a quarter of a mile from here . |
| 14 | Well , a thousand pounds not a lot , Karen , but er it all depends what the , what what you gon na be insured for ? |
| 15 | We knew Compaq would be around and it would be a technically healthy upgrade not a guddle . ’ |
| 16 | Does the occasional slap do a child no harm , or is physical punishment not the solution for a misbehaving youngster ? |
| 17 | For another ten years not a soul had dared enter it , until the snake-hunters steeled themselves to descend in pursuit of a python which had consumed a child in the dry season of 1969 . |
| 18 | By privileging medicine in the administration of the new service , separating hospitals from local authority responsibilities for prevention and after care , and leaving the power and independence of the teaching hospitals intact , Bevan created a medical service not a health service . |
| 19 | Primal Scream Not a name which would lead you to expect self-absorbed acoustic doodlings . |
| 20 | As the work began , one of those beautiful coincidences organised by God took place : the only public building on the Trendlewood estate ( indeed the only building not a house ) was the Old Farmhouse pub . |
| 21 | There are no ‘ alterations and additions ’ evident in the theatre score — signs of hurried completion , to be sure , and a number of telling omissions , but of systematic revision not a hint . |
| 22 | Managing director not an employee |
| 23 | On the first night not a soul could be induced to enter it . ’ |
| 24 | He seems about as straight-forward a citizen as ever foreclosed on a widow and fifteen orphans not a hint of creepy-crawliness no European connections , not even any gaps . ’ |
| 25 | In an analysis of camera angles Rich demonstrated that despite its ostensible anti-porn content Not a Love Story in fact reproduced the voyeuristic position which lends pornography its appeal . |
| 26 | Constance wanted to return to the status quo before the illegitimate grandson of Roger II , Tancred , count of Lecce , became king in 1190 ( i.e. to the state under King William I and King William II , 1154 to 1189 ) , but her offers concerned only the continental kingdom not the island . |
| 27 | Are these critical differences not an iron law of our development ? |
| 28 | It is also acknowledged and agreed that I will perform my functions hereunder solely for the said parties and neither correspondence relating to the dispute nor any finding or award made by me as expert shall give rise to any right in favour of any person not a party hereto and any such correspondence and finding [ or award ] will be confidential to the said parties and will not be disclosed without my prior written consent , which I will not unreasonably withhold but which may be given subject to conditions . |
| 29 | Is open access not the result of political dogma rather than practical hard-nosed business analysis ? |
| 30 | Left again , after the brewery ( where they still have the Porter Tun Rooms , a tun being a big barrel not a weight , though not many people know that ) is Whitecross Street and the Barbican entrance , where many tourists go in and some actually find the theatre or gallery they 're supposed to be going to . |