Example sentences of "not the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is not the extra £3.6 million further evidence of the Government 's clear commitment to fighting crime ? |
| 2 | It was not the extra work — she did it willingly , willingly . |
| 3 | In spoken discourse , there is not the visual prompt of paragraph-initial line indentation to indicate a division in the discourse structure . |
| 4 | There is not the offensive mouth and dirty tongue of Mercurius but there is more throbbing with the Lachesis tension , like a pot on the boil , a sense of pent up energy . |
| 5 | Unlike most of his contemporaries , Darwin realized that the human race was not the predictable end-product of a universal progressive trend . |
| 6 | The brilliant young composer , not the burned-out playwright . |
| 7 | This catalogue of pressures and constraints is not the entire story of my life as a lesbian involved in work with girls and young women . |
| 8 | Systematic risk is associated with movements in the market as a whole , while unsystematic risk is due to events which affect only one or a few assets , not the entire market . |
| 9 | You never find out about the water in the instrument systems until you are airborne and it will ruin that flight , if not the entire flying for that day . |
| 10 | The part detail held is not the entire contents of the drawing file , but merely sufficient data to describe the parts ' associativity and spatial positions in the sub-assembly . |
| 11 | Not the entire truth , never that , but that there was something . |
| 12 | Erm that 's not the shaped spiral shaped ? |
| 13 | For Lecercle , for instance , the Remainder , in its appearance as folk-etymology , is a reaction against the arbitrariness of the sign and is thus , we might say , " carnivalesque " ; equally , the matter of language is not one that can be finally brought under the rule of one sign alone , so it is polyvocal perhaps : " Language is not the systematic ordering of constants … it is a composite reality that is essentially heterogeneous " ( p. 184 ) . |
| 14 | What the right hon. Gentleman should bear in mind , if he cares about real prosperity for this country , is making sure that we get the economic basics of inflation and the exchange rate correct so that we can get sustainable investment for the long term , not the short-term gimmicks that the right hon. Gentleman embraces . |
| 15 | By March 1989 Paddy Hopkins of MEG was arguing against the type of short-term development involved in mining and in favour of development based on indigenous , renewable natural resources , especially on the tourist and leisure industries : ‘ We want to concentrate on the development of tourism to provide jobs , not the short-term benefit — perhaps five years — which mining would bring ’ . |
| 16 | Philip Field dealt with with railways in the Severn Valley ( not the preserved SVR ) , showing some of the station buildings which have been converted to domestic use , e.g. Coalport . |
| 17 | Whether or not the Communist leaders really believed this or any other of the sweeping statements made at the time is questionable . |
| 18 | Whether or not the Communist Party leaders expected such a letter to have anything more than a propaganda appeal they can hardly have been surprised by the Labour Party reply on 27 January 1936 which rejected the application and outlined the history of relations between the two parties , particularly during the social fascist " period . |
| 19 | And surely the Plaza was not the crowded car-park it is now ? |
| 20 | Anyone in contact with scientists is aware how often general accounts of recent scientific work give the facts but not the mental attitude of the researchers . |
| 21 | In my view this is not the correct approach because membership administration can be expensive and is a variable cost depending on size … a society must set its membership rates on the basis of generating the revenue surplus it needs to meet its expenditure objectives . |
| 22 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 23 | The accumulation of further data since the original reports and the analysis in table VII suggest that this is not the correct explanation . |
| 24 | The study , by three university-based research centres , concludes cautiously that " the accumulation of further data " since the publication of the Black report in 1984 suggests that chance " is not the correct explanation " . |
| 25 | What would employees below think to hear us shouting at the top of our voices about what is and what is not the correct Chinaman ? ’ |
| 26 | But it is not the whole story ; and it is certainly not the correct starting-point . |
| 27 | The problem I get asked about most is ending up with a seam that is not the correct length , or is wavy . |
| 28 | Collect the words by writing down the misspelled form , not the correct form . |
| 29 | If this is not the correct basis , it can be changed . |
| 30 | If this is not the correct basis , it can be changed . |