Example sentences of "not the [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me give another very recent example while these rather alarming , in some ways , events were going on in Arkensaw , the London Times — not the Sunday Times now — had as a centre page article by a distinguished cosmologist , Fred Hoyle , announcing to a startled world that he 'd suddenly acquired some doubts about evolution . |
| 2 | What I could see was not the Land Rover but a rock . |
| 3 | Not the Ireland beloved of the tourists who fill the pubs of the south-west , but the neglected northern coast , where a walker can sample some of Western Europe 's most dramatic coastline , indulge in legends without recourse to a leprechaun , and on occasions enjoy the trip without bumping into a non-resident . |
| 4 | In other words , if you 're looking for championships , FA Cup wins and European success , you 're going to have to scour the video library not the Everton trophy room . |
| 5 | Certainly not the Everton Kendall envisaged when he returned there . |
| 6 | George O'Grady , the Tournament Director , pointed out that Mason 's action was in defiance of Rule 19 , which states that " the ball shall be struck at the hole with the head of the club and not pushed , scraped or spooned " , in short , not the Steve Davis style . |
| 7 | Whether or not the Camelford aluminium case is ever proved to have led to long-term damage to the health of people living in the area , it was certainly a major pollution incident . |
| 8 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 9 | ‘ I remember them well — not the Antipas guy |
| 10 | it is not the Armageddon situation that suggest . |
| 11 | With this definition of deindustrialization a range of indicators can be used to assess whether or not the UK economy is deindustrializing . |
| 12 | Approval will partly depend on whether or not the UK Department of Trade & Industry opens up the market for international simple resale to the US . |
| 13 | No , it would have to be a se a separate Traidcraft stall , I think , not the Traidcraft coffee next to the Nestle coffee . |
| 14 | Certainly not the California vineyard owners whose irrigation supplies are threatened by the creeping contamination from below LLNL . |
| 15 | There is one thing I should make clear : ‘ Documenta ’ is not the Venice Biennale . |
| 16 | ‘ And here it is convenient to refer pointedly to the fact that it is Mr. Matthey , the original lessee , and not the Richardson executors , his assignees , who is defendant to the action and respondent on this appeal , as well as to the further fact that it was these executors , and not Mr. Matthey , who were the real and only actors in the matters to which I have just been referring . |
| 17 | I not the Gilbey bar ? |
| 18 | Of course paying customers want to see a winning side , and they want superficial honours like League titles and Cup runs , but that is not the Whaddon way . |
| 19 | As the object of my attention I have chosen the character of Anderson in Tom Stoppard 's ( 1977 ) television play , Professional Foul , though I must point out from the outset that it is the dramatic text which is the focus of my attention and not the BBC Television production , and my comments will reflect this to a large degree . |
| 20 | H Street are now about to release a new video , cunningly titled Not the New H Street Video . |
| 21 | While endless argument could be engaged upon on the question whether or not the United Kingdom has a constitution , perhaps a more profitable issue for consideration is whether the system of government in the United Kingdom displays congruence with certain values , principles and concepts associated with constitutional government in a liberal democratic state . |
| 22 | They recall the wisdom of Sadat , who chose to seek an armistice in 1973 , saying that he could fight Israel but not the United States as well . |
| 23 | Japan ( not the United States , as suggested last week ) still boasts the world 's biggest official foreign reserves : at the end of January it had some $79 billion-worth ( including foreign currency , SDRs and its reserve position at the IMF , but excluding gold ) . |
| 24 | Is not the United States trying to scrap the ABM treaty so that it can push on with its star wars programme ? |
| 25 | Because of the recent return to figuration in the last ten years there is an enormous interest in British portraiture , but they put on a show like the ‘ Swagger portrait ’ only at the Tate Gallery ; why do n't they do it at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome ; why not the Palazzo Reale , Milan ? |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not the Wimbledon style of play with us , it 's the Sheffield style . |
| 27 | It is not the West End galleries however who have been opening their doors to the new generation . |
| 28 | Man in the middle RICHIE Richardson is one of the world 's great batsmen , but Brian Close believes Yorkshire 's need is for a top strike bowler and not the West Indies captain |
| 29 | Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the problem is not the West Lothian question but the Westminster question , which will become predominant if , after having just nine Members , his party is left with none , or just two or three ? |
| 30 | No one wants chaos in East Germany — not the West Germans , nor the internal opposition , nor the Russians . |