Example sentences of "and not the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exceptions to the rule clearly exist , however , and Fearon has emphasised that it is the accumulation and not the order of these changes which is important . |
| 2 | They have no rights in the Palace at all and are , at almost every opportunity , shunned by MPs who mistakenly believe that the European Parliament ( and not the Council ) is their natural adversary . |
| 3 | So the injunction to directors is that they must act bona fide in what they , and not the court , thinks are the best interests of the company . |
| 4 | The proper remedy was the ballot box and not the court . |
| 5 | The prosecution alleged that they took part in a plan to offload cannabis resin at the Norfolk coast , the accused maintained that they had helped to load the cannabis on to the tug , but the drug was destined for Holland and not the UK . |
| 6 | Prima facie a clause which specifies review date by reference to the commencement of the term requires the measurement to be taken from the date from which the term is computed , and not the date of the lease ( Beaumont Property Trust v Tai ( 1982 ) 265 EG 872 ) . |
| 7 | Dr James was unrepentant last night , saying that any distress comes from the threat to the service and not the decision by the doctors to inform patients about it . |
| 8 | You are responsible for the child at school and not the parents so do n't be tempted to pass the buck . |
| 9 | Under these circumstances the parents need to be able to take over from each other so that it is the child who tires and not the parents . |
| 10 | Why did the Bank of England order its closure and not the US Federal Reserve ? |
| 11 | How we managed without all these aids — in fact by merely buying a coffin and getting on with it — I ca n't imagine , but I know that we were lucky to be living in the UK and not the US , where the open coffin , or at least one quarter open at the head end , is de rigueur . |
| 12 | Cats ' home , your mistress round the corner , one of the children and not the others , however you like . |
| 13 | I was n't wearing red and I could never think why they were chasing me and not the others . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Why did you come and not the others ? ’ |
| 15 | My hon. Friend is right : if one tries to pick out one element and not the others , the result may not be beneficial . |
| 16 | I did shock him with one answer , cos he he was expecting a totally different answer to the one I gave him which was correct , and you know that is unusual for me , but er I did shock him with one , but other than that it was erm it was er an excellent input all the way through the day , and they explained the differences and why they er approved some products and not the others , things like that , it was er spot on . |
| 17 | Moreover , due to their large diameter wheel , they have a low rolling resistance on poor tracks and , importantly , it is the wheel , and not the person pushing , which carries the weight , since the load is balanced in a pair of lockers , one on each side , and distributed both in front of and behind the axle . |
| 18 | Even when parents strongly disapprove of the way their teenager is behaving , it is still important to make it clear that it is the behaviour and not the person that is being rejected . |
| 19 | Section 60(2) , for example , has to be made to work in a case where the person entitled to be paid compensation is a beneficiary under a bare trust and not the person who made the deposit . |
| 20 | In 1991 case management was renamed ‘ care management ’ in a guidance document from the Department of Health and Social Services Inspectorate , on the grounds that the term ‘ case ’ was demeaning to the individual and misleading in that it is the care , and not the person , that is being managed . |
| 21 | Lord Morrison at p531 also referred to the fact that Archer-Shee v Baker was concerned with ascertaining the income from American investments subject to tax ( ie the nature of the income ) and not the person chargeable to tax : These cases [ Williams v Singer and Archer-Shee v Baker ] raised no question as to the person chargeable to tax . |
| 22 | Just before the Calcutta Test Gooch admitted that it was only the actual cricket , and not the bit in between , that he enjoyed from touring these days . |
| 23 | The chairman of the education committee said ‘ If boys are to be turned into fairies and girls into butch young maids , it should be for the parent to decide and not the education authorities ’ ( TES 13.10.78 ) . |
| 24 | Thus the population of women is primarily selected by the fertility of the partner and not the women and probably is a fair reflection on the normal population of women . |
| 25 | It is the visitor and not the premises that have to be reasonably safe . |
| 26 | He could never be happy with morning prayer and not the sacrament as the chief morning service . |
| 27 | The main advantage of a limited company is that in general only the company and not the individual is liable for the business debts . |
| 28 | The Court declared that " laws must be made in advance of a crime , not afterwards " and that " only the [ former communist ] state and not the individual " could be " considered guilty " . |
| 29 | At your age I already had five children living and not the hope of a decent wage coming . |
| 30 | some handsome star and not the bloke they 're with . |