Example sentences of "not the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Note here that open-market operations must be conducted in the bond market not the bill market , since selling Treasury bills would merely exchange one liquid asset for another !
2 Not the equipment manufacturer because he is interested in the commercial aspect of selling his own equipment whether it be right for the particular job or not .
3 As a detail of notation , if it seems useful to have a way to distinguish property-meanings from entity-meanings , then we may use round brackets for the former , thus allowing us to replace ( 7 ) by : We may also point out that the physical orientation of the arrowhead in our representations naturally reflects the direction of qualification , not the surface order of the instantiating elements .
4 For women , in contrast , discontinuity is not the core experience , and relationships are not perceived as violent .
5 But whether or not the Queen Mother is out of step with public opinion on divorce , she has made it clear no one will tell her how to behave .
6 We are not the maniac Moderati of the vile Imperium with their Mars-made machines — though maybe ours were assembled on fabled Mars millennia ago .
7 So the relevant contract for the Leasing Convention is the leasing agreement , not the supply contract , whereas for the Factoring Convention it is the sale contract , not the factoring agreement .
8 This affects only union preferences , and not the MD curve ( see equation 8 ) .
9 ‘ I said the Ash Grove , Mom , not the Hash Grove , for God 's sake .
10 Mr Knightley had arrived home in grand — if not entirely dignified — style , and luckily he was just in time to decide whether or not the quarry project should go ahead .
11 the yellow one , the yellow van is Rudy 's , the red mini is mine , not the cream mini , up , the one to this one next door
12 Difficulties determining whether or not the gall bladder was clear of stones were encountered ; indeed , four patients were thought to be free of stones at the end of the procedure only to have fragments found on the 10th day .
13 Powell-Tuck found no significant correlation between the erythrocyte sedimentation rate and sigmoidoscopic appearance in patients with ulcerative colitis and in Crohn 's disease Cooke and Prior showed that serum C-reactive protein and albumin but not the erythrocyte sedimentation rate correlated with disease activity .
14 He stood quite close to her and he said , ‘ I do n't know who you are , lass , never clapped eyes on you , and from the look of you an' your voice you 're not the kind wor Robbie would pick up with .
15 We should note that the small letter p is used for pressure and not the capital P. We use P for external pressure-that is , the pressure acting on a system — whereas p is used for internal pressure .
16 ‘ One can only speculate what would have happened had this not been done but I seriously doubt if we would be meeting here today had not the capital infusion been made in 1990 and this plan put into place and well executed .
17 Not the story type , although a story is always involved .
18 But he needs cuts to announce on Wednesday — an end to some bizarre farm subsidies to anyone running cattle on federal land , or cuts in the super-collider programme , but not the space station .
19 I think the only difficulty is that bound not the Boundary Commission , the erm , Charities Commission who er , have very awkward rules about things , which er , they could still er , still try to resolve .
20 In most experimental arrangements , it is the pressure difference , not the flow rate , that is held constant .
21 And this simply shifts the cost of providing that solution to an investment in the people and not the computer hardware .
22 In the present case , the subject matter of the invention was the practical application of a computer program , the technical effect resulting from the operation of the programmed computer and not the computer program itself .
23 However , it is not the Structure Plan 's job to show specific sites for development .
24 It shows to some extent the City was tied up with the erm issue of whether or not the structure plan should include a major exception to or indeed a strategic exception to policy .
25 Is not the success story of the present Government 's policy the fact that they have managed to turn British Steel into a profit-making industry ?
26 At a distance of 150pc , the distance modulus is 5.9 magnitudes providing a lower limit to the absolute magnitude of the companion of about 16 whether or not the candidate star is the binary companion .
27 no , no , not the alarm clock
28 In an attempt to counter this , many North American teachers have begun making a conscious effort to help their young students ‘ develop ’ a child 's ‘ natural ’ curiosity about the world — not the TV world , but the actual world around them .
29 They will not get it into their heads that what the military wants is military information , not the phone number of some general 's girlfriend .
30 A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police .
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