Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [not/n't] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Power is a relation between social groups not a possession to be worn like a garment or flaunted like an antiracist badge . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We knew Compaq would be around and it would be a technically healthy upgrade not a guddle . ’ |
| 8 | He added : ‘ We have the spectator Prime Minister -not a power at the heart of Europe but a void at the heart of the British Government . |
| 9 | Does the occasional slap do a child no harm , or is physical punishment not the solution for a misbehaving youngster ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Primal Scream Not a name which would lead you to expect self-absorbed acoustic doodlings . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Managing director not an employee |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Are these critical differences not an iron law of our development ? |
| 18 | Is open access not the result of political dogma rather than practical hard-nosed business analysis ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He entered , and for some time stood alone and unrecognised on the Turkey carpet , seeing among the well-to-do crowd not a soul he knew except Dr Heatherton , in the distance , talking with someone ; and Mrs Heatherton , followed by her bevy of obedient daughters , their skirts rustling prosperously wherever they went . |
| 21 | Almost at once the fog rolled away and in all that open bowl not a soul was to be seen . |
| 22 | You 're setting up and prin the setting that 's the expensive bit not the running off is n't it ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The switch finally used must be the metal cased type not the glass envelope type . |
| 25 | In the middle of the recession , the economy needs new impetus not a tax cut . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |