Example sentences of "not the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept of health used in this chapter is not the narrow medicalized term meaning merely the absence of disease . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps disease is not the correct medical term , I would not know . |
| 3 | But the lubricator is not the largest missing item the company has to contend with — there is no tender ! |
| 4 | Not the two extra eyes , odd though they were . |
| 5 | In this study it has been shown by two independent methods that histamine increases the in vitro proliferation of the two gastric tumour cells ; MKN45 and MKN45G but not the two colorectal lines ; C170 and LoVo . |
| 6 | The only way in which er you could get how shall I put it , another view on the issue , would be to continue the debate here on whether or not the outer northern fulfils the functions and the needs which it pr claims to do compared with the inner routes between Knaresborough and Harrogate . |
| 7 | Yes I know what you mean He 's not the nervous little thing he was . |
| 8 | There is some evidence that practical family planning first began amongst what F. B. Smith calls the ‘ self instructed classes ’ , not the upper middle classes but those most responsive to radical propaganda . |
| 9 | It 's only afterwards , in the Epilogue , that we learn with surprise and perhaps some vexation that repentance and acceptance of suffering come to him not then but much later , in prison ; his confession was not the decisive moral feat we took it for . |
| 10 | Army overstretch was not the only awkward legacy that would be bequeathed by the Conservatives to their socialist successors . |
| 11 | The answers given are not the only right answers . |
| 12 | Mr Cannon is not the only regional brewer planning a big expansion . |
| 13 | Against it , I shall argue first that what Quine means by verificationism is not the only empirical theory of meaning , and second that a theory which abandons atomism at the observational level in favour of a more complete holism would be generally preferable both for empiricists and for others . |
| 14 | And Balemartin was not the only Baptist church in the island ; there was another at Baugh and ‘ stations ’ at Balevullin and Balephuil , many of the congregation having to stand outside . |
| 15 | Probably the nastiest — if not the only nasty — thing was when Stuart Baillie called us ‘ a cross between Bob Dylan and The Exploited ’ . |
| 16 | The Khmers Rouges are not the only armed faction that could destroy the hopes raised by Cambodia 's election . |
| 17 | Finally , we should recognize that ours is not the only computer-using community which has felt constrained by industry standard database packages and markup languages which simply could not cater for our dates , currency measures , and time scales . |
| 18 | You 're not the only Nordic expert in the service , you know . |
| 19 | Dmitrii Miliutin was not the only tsarist official to speak frankly , in the later stages of the war , of the strain it was placing on the country 's resources . |
| 20 | Diogenes Laertius was not the only ancient philosopher he had worked on in his later Leipzig days : he had also grappled with the Aristotelian corpus and , especially , with the Presocratic , Democritus . |
| 21 | They are not the only good things , but they are much the best , at least among good things of which we know . |
| 22 | Britain and the US are not the only Western countries to worry about supplies of key materials . |
| 23 | As mentioned at the start of this section , the common law is not the only legal system in which rights to land are lost by abandonment : |
| 24 | Warnings or dismissal are not the only possible penalties for misconduct . |
| 25 | It should be stressed that this is not the only possible intervention . |
| 26 | As the reference above to ‘ parallel processing ’ suggests , the logical-sequential approach is not the only possible form of a computational model . |
| 27 | There is obviously also variation by generational position with old age being the most likely — although not the only possible — time when anyone may need personal support from relatives . |
| 28 | ‘ parents ’ are the best example , though not the only possible one . |
| 29 | But before doing so , it should be noted that although the discussion so far has treated procedure by writ or summons in the High Court as the relevant alternative to Ord. 53 procedure , this is not the only possible alternative . |
| 30 | When we speak of the British constitution that is the normal , if not the only possible meaning the word has . |