Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] not the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Erm unfortunately we can only have this room not the canteen this year . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Does the occasional slap do a child no harm , or is physical punishment not the solution for a misbehaving youngster ? |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Is open access not the result of political dogma rather than practical hard-nosed business analysis ? |
6 | You 're setting up and prin the setting that 's the expensive bit not the running off is n't it ? |
7 | The switch finally used must be the metal cased type not the glass envelope type . |
8 | They do n't have to hunt foxes to do that the motion , the main motion not the amendment suggests drag hunting er they could , there there my , I think it means proper drag hunting not one er to previously er l l laid out er objectives er they could race each other , they can have treasure hunts , er there are plenty of ways in which they could enjoy riding . |
9 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
10 | 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 . |