Example sentences of "not the other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're gon na sing a song now in in closing that puts this challenge to us , it 's number one sixty one in the , Songs of Fellowship , it reminds us that we 're the ones , not the other person not the young person that shows so much promise that we think , not somebody else who is so much more gifted than we are , but here , it says , here I am available . |
| 2 | Not the other day , when I went home for Easter last year |
| 3 | It is the Americans who remake foreign films , not the other way round . |
| 4 | Without denying the great efforts made by the local council and others to improve the estate , it is they who chose not to co-operate with police , not the other way round . |
| 5 | His teaching was a challenge to Christians , more radical than it seemed : ‘ The state is there for man , not the other way round , the socialist order is there for man , not the other way round . ’ |
| 6 | His teaching was a challenge to Christians , more radical than it seemed : ‘ The state is there for man , not the other way round , the socialist order is there for man , not the other way round . ’ |
| 7 | Franco-German battles are fought with press release , not tank division , and the general idea is to keep the Huns firmly inside French territory — not the other way round . |
| 8 | For their money , they got traditional advice — Gover would always try to get batsmen to live up to the technical ideal of Jack Hobbs — put in an unstuffy and flexible way : ‘ We would fit the mould to the customers , not the other way round . ’ |
| 9 | Commercial banks everywhere are realising that profitable banks may become big , but not the other way round . |
| 10 | Hundreds of books have been written on the transition from capitalism to communism , but not the other way . |
| 11 | They are still close to their banks , but the bankers kowtow to them , not the other way around . |
| 12 | Do n't forget , it 's you that 's schooling the horse , not the other way round . |
| 13 | Why not the other way round ? ’ |
| 14 | They failed to see that money came from success , not the other way round — Chelsea , for instance , had also paid large sums for players without creating a championship team — and that the vital factor was the genius of the manager in charge for getting the most out of his players , whatever they cost , and for buying the right man . |
| 15 | The faint waft of the regiment of unwashed drifted down the carriage as he carried on his harangue , vouchsafing the information that his wife had divorced him , not the other way round . |
| 16 | In the second place , the modal meaning is derivable from the canonical lexical meaning but not the other way round . |
| 17 | A High Court action needs to be a team effort between the client and his solicitor and barrister , otherwise the action tends to run the client and not the other way round . |
| 18 | The film 's main assets are Croft and Tiernan , both young enough to ignore the weight of Shakespeare 's name and get on with acting — they put their words at the service of fresh emotions , not the other way round . |
| 19 | ‘ ICAO is the servant of its member States ’ , was my approach — not the other way round . |
| 20 | Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round . |
| 21 | I ca n't live off my mother and my younger brother : I 'm supposed to look after them and not the other way round . |
| 22 | When he entertained them to dinner , they travelled to his apartment at Buckingham Palace , not the other way around . |
| 23 | The all-important notion of the dreamwork involves an assumption about the function of dreaming ( and possibly of consciousness in general ) — that the dream is controlling the subject 's psychological state , and not the other way round . |
| 24 | To revert to what is fundamental , the distinction made by the two conditionals gives some clear sense to our saying that causal circumstances explain effects , and make them happen , and not the other way on . |
| 25 | It is in virtue of ( 5 ) , ( 7 ) , and ( 8 ) that we can truly say that the circumstance makes happen and explains the effect , and not the other way on . |
| 26 | Your planning diary and your weekly timetable are simply management tools — they work for you , not the other way round . |
| 27 | Sandy takes her for walks , not the other way round . |
| 28 | you 've used a triangular bandage to cover a wound in the scalp , it 's not a chopping block wound right , it 's not the chopper in its wound right , it 's just a minor wound in the scalp , yes , and that came round and tied at the front , tucked at the back , you used these roller bandages to cover a graze or a wound on the end of an elbow or a knee or the hand , foot and then a straight one up the arm okay , so a lot of your bandaging is using these little roller bandages with the lint pad and do n't forget when you get into the exam do it , do n't do it the wrong way round , remember that you look at your bandage and you put the lint onto the wound , not the other way round right , yeah , you put the lint face down onto the wound , okay ? |
| 29 | He becomes , in effect , more willing to define cases as ‘ pollutions ’ since the agency has grounds for complaint only when an officer fails to take action in an instance which officially warrants it — not the other way round . |
| 30 | The democracy is the product of a western mind , not the other way round . |