Example sentences of "[noun sg] not [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows that people who insist ‘ that 's not what it means ’ or ‘ you ca n't say that ’ rest their case not on the facts of language , but on the arrogance of power . |
| 2 | I can remember once being told by a karate teacher that the trick of breaking planks of wood with the edge of your hand was to aim your blow not at the planks but about six inches below them . |
| 3 | She addresses herself in this article not to the schoolchildren whom she describes but to an audience of fellow academics . |
| 4 | Thus we might wish to teach a particular structure or word meaning not on the grounds of frequency of occurrence but because its acquisition provides a basis for the learner to understand and learn other structures or meanings by extension . |
| 5 | It was to be revolution not on the rates but on a private income . |
| 6 | We see jobs being lost every week as our employers cut back to try and outbid each other not in the interests of defence of this country but purely because of political dogma . |
| 7 | It was an approach not of the land-users themselves but of their rulers , and therefore it is necessary to discuss briefly what the colonial rulers ' political and economic interests were , and in what way they related to the people of colonised areas and to the natural resources they found there . |
| 8 | Humankind , to summarise , has been moving shoddywards since about 480 BC , when Confucius , Buddha , the Second Isaiah and Pythagoras died : to be succeeded , sages of wisdom and toleration that they were , by a return to superstition not unlike the reactions that tragically followed the Enlightenment or Victorian rationalism . |
| 9 | ‘ Remember what Nikos said : apply the analysis not to the Moslems but to the Copts . |
| 10 | Usually these are children from one-parent families , children in local-authority care , or youngsters who need a respite from the household chores they assume as surrogate adults because their parents are ill , and even , in some cases , children with a parent in prison , and are selected for inclusion in the scheme not by the police but by schools and other caring agencies . |