Example sentences of "not the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The part detail held is not the entire contents of the drawing file , but merely sufficient data to describe the parts ' associativity and spatial positions in the sub-assembly . |
| 2 | What the right hon. Gentleman should bear in mind , if he cares about real prosperity for this country , is making sure that we get the economic basics of inflation and the exchange rate correct so that we can get sustainable investment for the long term , not the short-term gimmicks that the right hon. Gentleman embraces . |
| 3 | Whether or not the Communist leaders really believed this or any other of the sweeping statements made at the time is questionable . |
| 4 | Those who initially questioned whether or not the online catalogues were in fact catalogues may have recognized the difference in essence . |
| 5 | Cardboard cut-outs of the two continents were made and fitted together , computer programmes written to devise the most perfect match between the two continents , similarities and the differences in the geology of corresponding areas studied ad nauseam , and even details of the animal life in each continent compared , but without reaching any firm conclusions on whether or not the two continents had ever been united . |
| 6 | In this case , as in millions , it was not the two halves of a perfect whole who met . |
| 7 | The jury has been told that it must decide whether or not the two men were racing their cars . |
| 8 | Are not the two sexes made for one another ? |
| 9 | But the treasury department must make sure that the people they target with summonses are not the innocent victims of a departmental mistake . |
| 10 | Not the cheery Cherrys : they are frothing pop in full , rampant effect . |
| 11 | I think the real English gardens are not the manicured lawns of the home counties ( usually nurtured by someone ‘ who comes to do the garden ’ ) but precisely these little pocket handkerchief gardens and allotments ; places of little rugs and doormats and tiny bits of land for which rain is prayed , cultivated with beans and tomatoes and cabbages and roses , a respite from the rest of life , where people are autonomous , in control of something they are making . |
| 12 | Not the dull conformists . |
| 13 | Furthermore , because education is a gradual process all that my list can indicate is the final goal , not the delicate stages along the way . |
| 14 | Jobs should go to the young , single people who really need them , not the married mums whose children need them . |
| 15 | And er I mean there , there are not the relaxating exercises th that they have now . |
| 16 | where they did n't like the Christmas , not the modern parents where they , they would n't let them have a Christmas tree , the erm the critics is was erm oh what was that about ? |
| 17 | And where Freud has been integrated with , with the social sciences , interestingly enough , what 's been integrated is not the black books so much as Freud 's writings on child development and other issues , apart from those in these books . |
| 18 | Yet , just as in last month 's encounter when Steve Morrow struck the decisive blow , it was not the much-heralded superstars but an unsung stalwart who proved the match winner . |
| 19 | They are not the deepest thinkers in the world , but neither are they doubtful or divided . |
| 20 | Recognition has solved the constitutional issue of Slovenia ( although not the economic problems that independence has either created or failed to solve ) . |
| 21 | S so the , the , the really important outcome of land reform is the political and social changes not the economic changes |
| 22 | But now , of course , the English courts are not the only courts which can develop English law . |
| 23 | Strokes and heart attacks are not the only problems . |
| 24 | The distribution of patronage and the related question of internal security were not the only problems exercising the protector during May and early June . |
| 25 | These are not the only problems . |
| 26 | The distribution of patronage and the related question of internal security were not the only problems exercising the protector during May and early June . |
| 27 | Children were not the only dependents of working women . |
| 28 | New Liberalism and Fabianism were not the only movements of socialist thought which were influential during this period . |
| 29 | The pages on Pound are not the only ones worth reading . |
| 30 | The Romans may be the chief enemies in the books , but they are not the only ones who would like to suppress Asterix . |