Example sentences of "not the [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if you do n't , think , oh well I 'd I do n't want to be well it 's not the teachers fault cos you do n't get on ! |
| 2 | This was not the operations room of a naval warship or a secret room in the White House but my modest office above a restaurant in north London . |
| 3 | There are various procedural requirements applicable to a reduction in the standard number , including a duty of the proposer to publish details of the proposals and to refer the proposals to the Secretary of State if objections to them are raised by 10 or more local government electors or by the LEA or governors ( whichever of them is not the admissions authority ) . |
| 4 | The LEA , which had an equal opportunities policy for its education service , was not the admissions authority . |
| 5 | ‘ When I first became involved , getting the Olympics to Britain was n't on anybody 's agenda within sport , not the Minister 's , not the Sports Council 's , not the BOA 's or any sports body . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Not the police station ! ’ cried another voice . |
| 7 | The particular section within Easton station upon which we came to focus attention was decided by us not the police management . |
| 8 | For it was not the Police Choir that sang but seven-year-old Maria O'Neil . |
| 9 | Sara Calloway , of Women Against Rape , said the 18-year-old victim 's character had been put on trial and not the police officer 's . |
| 10 | It is the vicious downward spiral of drug abuse , drug dealing and violence that terrorises inner city estates , not the police action to free the vast majority of law-abiding residents from a menace caused by a tiny minority . |