Example sentences of "not [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked along , trembling with anger and misery , not through the London of beautiful houses and clean streets that I 'd dreamed of , where people wore only elegant , expensive clothes , nor between buildings that soared into the clouds , but in the darkness past trees planted at infrequent intervals and council houses with their unlit windows , all alike ; I passed people asleep , protected from the cold in cardboard boxes , and rubbish in untidy heaps or neatly tied up in black plastic bags and empty milk bottles with traces of sour milk lingering in them , and I marvelled once again that the dairies were trusting enough to leave them lying about . |
| 2 | That man is not aboard the Santa Maria del Sud , nor the tug neither . |
| 3 | ‘ Not aboard the Delos , Commander . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ Tonight 's vote is not about the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 5 | Special care he reserved for his own wife and not for the Mrs Strawsons of this world . |
| 6 | It would be nice to dismiss this as a problem concerning a far-off country paying the price of its excess , if it was not for the West 's dependency on Japan 's past boom . |
| 7 | Were it not for the Buddha , |
| 8 | ‘ This is not for the Mamur Zapt . ’ |
| 9 | So the family overstayed its permitted time and then left , not for the United States but for Galway , without notifying the authorities . |
| 10 | I think we 've erm we 've erm obviously learned that opting out is not for the Oxfordshire people — I 'm delighted about that and I just hope that as a result of this we do not see too many problems for Banbury School , both in the fact that the exercise has been somewhat divisory and I hope that they 're able to bring it together quickly afterwards . |
| 11 | If it was not for the Leeds fans and manager Howard Wilkinson I would not have got anywhere near this . |
| 12 | At present money received in roubles from concerts can be spent on food , hotels , transport , presents , etc. but not for the Dublin-Moscow flight . |
| 13 | This brought an access of homesickness , not for the Yorkshire moors but for the English language , and also for the long days of last summer 's play , for Alexander Wedderburn 's blown-rose full-blooded verse on the Elizabethan terrace at Long Royston , English summer evenings . |
| 14 | It would be reasonable to suppose that at this latitude the islands would be frozen in for most — if not all — of the year , and so they would , were it not for the Gulf Stream . |
| 15 | The Jacobite cause fell and the indecisive Prince with it , but there were those who fought not for the Stuarts , but for their country . |
| 16 | Observer status was granted to Denmark and Ireland , both also EC members but unwilling to contemplate full membership , and associate membership was granted to Iceland , Norway and Turkey , which were members of NATO but not of the EC . |
| 17 | Does the Secretary of State accept that there has not been , is not and will not be a majority in Scotland for the Trident missile system and that , ultimately , its deployment will depend on the consent not of the Westminster Parliament but of the Scottish people , and it will not be forthcoming ? |
| 18 | The bridge in question is shown in figure 7.8(b) and is not of the Wheatstone form . |
| 19 | This was claimed to be the work not of the IRA proper , but of the Irish National Liberation Army , an offshoot of it . |
| 20 | That means making it clear that it will not allow anyone to steal the election , least of all the Cambodian army , which is the servant of the state , not of the CPP . |
| 21 | John Nicholas was not amongst the Balderton men who paid the 1524 lay subsidy but he was a manorial court juror four years later . |
| 22 | ( Nevertheless , there were some interesting differences between the group who felt that they had a ‘ training officer ’ and those who did not amongst the CRUS sample , further discussed in Chapter 5 . ) |
| 23 | Not like the Côte d'Azur . ’ |
| 24 | Not like the Fourniers . |
| 25 | I 'm used to er I 'm not like the London 's a little bit different that other er financial services |
| 26 | No , no , not like the Devon |
| 27 | BUT it 's not like The U2 or The U2s , which is already happening and ruins it . ’ |
| 28 | Such a government , Lawrence asserted , ‘ would be child 's play for a decent man to run , so long as he ran it like Cromer 's Egypt , not like the Egypt of the Protectorate . |
| 29 | She was not like the Glasgow woman , who had shown him out into the street . |
| 30 | In Young 's time most of the cattle in Norfolk were in fact Scottish by origin , brought from their native regions to fatten in East Anglia , but the Norfolk Red was an old local middle-horned breed not unlike the Devon in colour and horn growth , and described as ‘ as loose and ill-made as bad Suffolks ’ . |