Example sentences of "[coord] not [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Kiesling he argues that it is that femininity signifies inferiority to Thomas , and not femininity as such , which makes a woman unsuitable . |
| 2 | I have to work the rest of the day and not finish at two o'clock |
| 3 | And not quarter past five ? |
| 4 | A light prism gives a practical example of how the same object viewed from different standpoints gives different images : one person may see only white light while others see all the colours of the rainbow , yet both perceptions are true to reality and not figments of distorted imagination . |
| 5 | One of the girls had two glasses before she realised that it was the water refreshments and not wine at all . |
| 6 | The values of A t were ‘ caused ’ by volatility and not volume for both indices . |
| 7 | Light dawns on the small Year Niner 's face as she hastens to explain that the stain on the front of her school blouse is jam that has squirted out of her break-time doughnut , and not blood at all . |
| 8 | ‘ Would n't it be grand if we could show Mr. Olinton that Brownies are helpful and not nuisances at all ? |
| 9 | Dogs were deprived of food but not water for 18 hours before surgery and experiments . |
| 10 | Literacy , too , has the potential to generate logic and scepticism — but not literacy in general , only that form of it which developed in classical Greece . |
| 11 | The Victorians understood ‘ The environment ’ to mean the background to human activity , in particular , industrial activity — a subject of concern to public health inspectors and philanthropists , but not society in general . |
| 12 | ‘ did drive ( or ride on ) ‘ Or ride on ’ includes any pillion passenger , but not passengers in any sidecar per regulation 3 ( 1 ) of the above regulations . |
| 13 | This is unlike the activation induced by the powerful stimulus of calcium ionophores in that prostaglandins induce platelet dense body secretion and α-granule secretion but not secretion of lysosomal hydrolases ( MacIntyre , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | The law says you can marry at 16 , but not consent to homosexual acts until you are 21 . |
| 15 | sine X but not sine of three X. |
| 16 | Already , a National Exclusions Reporting System ( whereby heads , governors and LEAs , as appropriate , provide information relating to permanent exclusions ( but not details of individual pupils ) to the Secretary of State ) has been established . |
| 17 | You can assign benefits but not burdens in English law , but the intention is that the purchaser will pay the debts , and that is an end of the matter . |