Example sentences of "not [noun sg] [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not automation but the failure to automate that risks jobs . |
| 2 | Finally , it is not Labour and the trade unions who are obsessed with strikes but the media . |
| 3 | The solution proposed was a two-tier system by which government appointed peers would have the right to vote , hereditary peers being allowed to speak but not vote while the delaying powers on legislation would be cut to six months . |
| 4 | The most radical possible objection to the argument from pleasure is not scepticism but the counterclaim that pleasure is evil , which condemns as wrong any choice in favour of the enjoyable . |
| 5 | But what represented that elementary force at this period , if not capitalism and the world made by and for the bourgeoisie ? |
| 6 | The upshot , however , was not revolution but the destruction of the organization . |
| 7 | " If a man loves me " , Jesus taught , " he will keep my word , and my Father will love him , and we will come to him and make our home with him … and the word which you hear is not mine but the Father 's who sent me . " |
| 8 | On the other hand , if it is not morning and the sun is over there ( His left ) … that … |
| 9 | Its model in politics was not Chartism but the Anti-Corn-Law League . |
| 10 | Tweed , the Liberal election agent , ‘ knew … that it was not illness or the tedium of a long convalescence which kept him out , but that his heart was not in it and that confronted with the serried ranks of vested interests which compose this new Government , his sympathies were as always with the bottom dogs … ' |
| 11 | Delegation is not abrogation and the person who delegates retains accountability and therefore must be in ultimate control at all stages of the job . |
| 12 | For him the criterion of musical phenomena was not mathematics but the ear . |
| 13 | His offence was not flagitiousness but the vulgarity , ostentation , and political inexperience of a parvenu . |
| 14 | Is this not proof that the pain felt by normal subjects mirrors the nature , intensity and location of tissue damage ? |
| 15 | There is not doubt that the behaviour of the police and the courts , as well as the wider public , will be influenced by their image of female crime . |
| 16 | fall in 1991 , is it not time that the Chancellor considered adopting the Labour party 's policy on investment ? |
| 17 | Is it not time that the Secretary of State came clean and admitted to the House that the boats are dangerous , the cost of repair and renovation is beyond reasonable expenditure and the boats should be withdrawn ? |
| 18 | Is it not time that the Government got off their behinds and made it compulsory for a payment to be made every year to every senior citizen in this land ? |
| 19 | Is it not time that the Government stopped selling arms to a country with such a brutal regime ? |
| 20 | Is it not time that the Government diverted rather more of their enormous advertising budget into advocating the eating of vegetables to promote health ? |
| 21 | Is it not time that the Government forced the pace and , if necessary , made regulations requiring manufacturers to incorporate safety procedures ? |
| 22 | Is it not time that the Government stood up and were counted by telling the Turkish Government to remove their troops from occupied Cyprus and saying that if they do not do so the British Government will veto any attempt by Turkey to join the EC ? |
| 23 | As the Conservative party is on the point of becoming the third party in a four-party country at the by-election later this week , is it not time that the Government stopped giving Scotland what it does not want — nuclear waste and nuclear energy — and instead gave Scotland what it wants , which is direct encouragement for renewable energies in a country which the Minister himself described as rich in potential for such developments ? |