Example sentences of "[adj] and not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hope sprang up in her , because if Caspar could make the Robemaker believe that he was merely foolish and not an intruder , they might have a chance . |
| 2 | The plucky little hedgehog kept at it until the dog dish was empty and not a scrap remained . |
| 3 | If this theory is correct , the term ‘ metaplasia ’ is a misnomer : metaplasia implies a change from one differentiated cell type to another and not the induction of a novel cell lineage . |
| 4 | Using Circle K as an example he complained that since the lighting had been removed the corner was dull , dark and dangerous and not a place to walk late at night . |
| 5 | It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one . |
| 6 | Remember that it is the cleared bank balance on which interest is payable and not the cash book balance . |
| 7 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 8 | But the social setting was now precisely that and not a star feature in its own right . |
| 9 | In a service there should be a mix of these and not a concentration on one metre or one key , for example . |
| 10 | Here , a constant and not a chance model of anarchic relations via exchange is obligatory … the law of value is merely the law of equilibrium of an anarchic commodity system … |
| 11 | The Portuguese officials said they would hear the appeal on 18 October and confirmed the appeal only involved the fine and not the ban , which actually took effect at the Spanish Grand Prix last Sunday . |
| 12 | What is implied , rather , is that Shakespeare 's cultural importance is somehow intrinsic and not the product of powerful formative institutions such as school boards . |
| 13 | We settled on a classic rock climb from the Etançons valley — the West-South-West Ridge of the Pic Nord des Cavales : a mouthful of a name to be sure and not a route well known outside the area , but Collomb assures of its worth : |
| 14 | OK so the occasional ( ! ) taunt may be made at a footy game but it IS a football match after all and not a place for the fainthearted . |
| 15 | However , this seepage was slight and not a problem . |
| 16 | Among the cases in which the options are not stacked like this , is that in which the sanctions and disapproval exist against behaviour which is in fact frequent and not the subject , perhaps , of any deep personal disinclination ; this , at the limit , is pure humbug , like the old school-master 's attitude to masturbation . |
| 17 | If the will of Parliament is sovereign and not the will of the people , how can we be true politically participative citizens ? |
| 18 | I am attempting to wean him but it is I and not the child who is loth to finish the business . |
| 19 | Now that facilities will be freely available and not the subject of constant negotiation we hope that even more undergraduates will participate . |
| 20 | Indeed , your latest victim seems to have been a veritable bundle of surprises — not a maidservant but a duchess , not dead but alive — and , to top all , affianced to an eleven-year-old and not a virgin ! ’ |
| 21 | The roar was held by some to be that of the dispossessed and not a train at all . |
| 22 | This autonomy is particularly apparent in older buildings , because they outlast generations of occupants : ‘ It always seems strange to me , ’ Fay Weldon remarks , ‘ how different families serve shifts in the same house ; as if the house owned them , sucked them dry , spat them out and tried again- and not the family that controlled the house at all . ’ |
| 23 | The child may automatically gravitate towards one parent , may touch and climb on one and not the other . |
| 24 | Go up Road , and from there turn down Follyhouse Lane the continuation of it and you 'd come right to the Dales and nothing at all from there to West Bromwich , and you could see , if you go over one stile from one field then onto another and then brook that now runs through the Road there , that used to be a little country brook that run across the golf course and there was a little stile over it , a little bridge and a stile , then you go straight up to Dells common and not a house in sight . |
| 25 | Sometimes , however , an alternative , less heroic but equally anti-correctionalist picture was painted : working-class crime was in reality mostly petty , irrelevant and not a problem , but had been made to appear so by the mass media blowing it up , misrepresenting it and creating crime-scares . |
| 26 | Where a person enters into a covenant to pay sums to another person for a period which can not exceed six years those amounts shall be treated as the income of the person who is paying the same and not the income of any other person ( TA 1988 , s660(1) ) . |
| 27 | I told you I was learning the language — she 's really very sweet and not a stitch on but as I said no need to worry , angel , riddled with diseases I 'm sure , apart from anything else , I mean . |
| 28 | Put it in a train in a comfortable seat with two hours of peace and quiet and not a contraflow within cursing distance , and let its brakes off . |
| 29 | ‘ Let's go down the Turk 's Head , ’ his grandad used to say , when it was still a treat for them both and not the stuff of nightmares . |