Example sentences of "[noun pl] and not the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of 's societal framework refers to the provinces and not the better known institutions centralized in Paris , an approach that makes a refreshing change . |
| 2 | It quickly became apparent that the BMC Management Committee was antagonistic towards training initiatives and dismissive of the training committee , instead preferring to talk to the external advisory board SACOMT , which contained real climbers and not the self-interested educationalists infesting the training committee . |
| 3 | The small but respected Republican Party has campaigned effectively against the old system which made the party bosses the real power brokers and not the elected candidates . |
| 4 | The privatisation programme has been an enormous success in recent years and not the least part of that success has been the extent to which it has widened and deepened share ownership around the country . |
| 5 | He says it 's hard in a new league with new players but his job is to look at the positive things and not the negative ones . |
| 6 | Er one , in regard to how they would operate it and secondly in regard to what would be expected of them , perhaps if they were attached to one of the older type machines and not the new machines you see . |
| 7 | referring to Council treadmills and not the actual committee . . |
| 8 | I think that 's that absolutely horrific and that has come from one of the practice partners and not the actual himself . |
| 9 | The common features of a course for future accountants , managers , bankers and teachers are to be found in the educational purposes of the academic study of literatures and languages — and where these include study of language it must still be in terms of common interests and not the sectional approach of linguistics for language teachers . |
| 10 | Since there is also other well known evidence collected by Sachs , Kirkpatrick , Zaslaw and others from L'Affilard , Pajot , la Chapelle , Marguet , Quantz , Pasquali , Choquel , Engramelle et al. , indicating that from 1717 to 1775 minuets were danced both fast and slow , anywhere between MM 53 and 80 per bar , is it really likely that it was only during the 1780s that musicians of the time just happened to slow down the minuet , playing only the bottom side of minuet tempos and not the top side then to speed up again afterwards by the 1790s and 1800s ? |
| 11 | If the French do not ratify these proposals as may appear likely now er how late can the minister leave it before he informs the people that they must fight the European elections on the old boundaries and not the new ? |
| 12 | Fifty two per cent of reservoirs showed expression of one of the markers and not the other ( Table IV ) . |
| 13 | And that she could n't stop thinking about him now was infuriating , never mind that the thoughts were angry ones and not the sloppy , sentimental stuff that had made her weep the first few nights after she 'd left Rome . |