Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zee brushes not zee furs ! |
| 2 | My Lord , the number will be a great many , primary schools teachers are of course spe er generalists not specialists and a primary school teacher with only religious education as a specialism would be disadvantaged quite seriously in having to cope with teaching maths and English and science and history , geography , art and music and so on . |
| 3 | Moreover , some employers chose to make ex gratia awards not only as cash payments or share option schemes , but also in the form of extended periods of leave or the improvement of on-site research facilities . |
| 4 | In an age when even the most liberal of Mughal Emperors used to demolish Hindu temples , this was both a brave and novel work ; but some considered Dara 's views not just unusual but actually heretical . |
| 5 | Mr Yeltsin , meanwhile , asked the 1,033 members of the Congress of People 's Deputies not to go ahead with its vote . |
| 6 | Mr Yeltsin , meanwhile , asked the 1,033 members of the Congress of People 's Deputies not to go ahead with a planned impeachment vote . |
| 7 | This does happen occasionally and when all else fails it is as good an excuse as any , since it puts the blame firmly where it belongs , on the fish 's shoulders not the fishkeepers . |
| 8 | Still , it is far from unlikely that both Swegen and Cnut did have relations with the Scandinavian colonies in Ireland , and there is just enough evidence to suggest that when the Encomiast named among the latter 's dominions not only England , Denmark and Norway , but also Brittania and Scothia , he was not necessarily exaggerating . |
| 9 | Although God specifically warned Job 's comforters not to postulate his sins as the cause of his sufferings , the Middle Ages preferred , like most ages , to ignore what God said . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's absolute humbug for cricket 's administrators not to come clean and tell the cricketing world everything that took place inside Lord 's famous pavilion that Sunday . ’ |
| 11 | People understand their own and other people 's lives not just in terms of class fractions or units of labour power even if they can be categorised as such . |
| 12 | Instruments appointing proxies must be lodged with the company 's registrars not less than forty-eight hours before the time fixed for the meeting . |
| 13 | After this defeat the Bakufu 's supporters gradually retreated towards Edo following the shogun 's appeals not to offer resistance . |
| 14 | Children 's rights not gay rights must drive the policy . |
| 15 | The Liberal Democrat leader , Mr Paddy Ashdown , asked her to reconsider the ‘ shameful example ’ set by her Government 's actions not only in sending the riot police in at the dead of night but in the blanket of secrecy surrounding the appeals tribunals which decided who were refugees . |
| 16 | Today 's dancers not only dance fur an audience . |
| 17 | Other commentators have sought to identify the nation 's problems not in terms of the effect of some aspects of the political culture but as agents generating and reflecting a decline in the culture itself . |
| 18 | Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures . |
| 19 | TORY councillor Brian Cummings , who has been laid low by a quadruple heart bypass operation , is under doctor 's orders not to rush back into the political arena . |
| 20 | When found , the duty officer obviously knew enough about Maxim 's sponsors not to ask for more . |
| 21 | Further west , the adherence of Count Rainald of Herbauge was vital for Charles 's prospects not only in the region of the lower Loire valley but in Aquitaine , where in July 840 Rainald commanded the garrison of Angoulême . |
| 22 | Leaving Mongolia aside , the leaders of each country are the linear descendants of ‘ Muscovite ’ Communists , sheltered in the USSR during the Second World War and brought to power in the van of the Red Army : in times of friction , it takes little to remind Eastern Europe 's leaders not only how their bread is buttered , but how they got into the larder in the first place . |
| 23 | Their lawyers applied to the High Court for judicial reviews of the Secretary of State 's decisions not to review their sentences until they have each served 10 years in the province . |
| 24 | Where the original tenant is not required to provide a guarantor but the alienation provisions permit the landlord to require a guarantor on an assignment if it is reasonable to do so , some landlords and tenants prefer the form of the guarantor 's covenants not to be set out in the lease but to rely upon what is reasonable at the time of the assignment , presumably to ensure that the state of the art is employed . |
| 25 | When the carrier acknowledges that he holds for and on behalf of the buyer , e.g. by accepting and acting upon the buyer 's instructions not to convey the goods as far as their original destination or to convey them to a further destination , or |
| 26 | Bradley explains that of the 70,000 visitors in LA at the time of last year 's riots not one was injured . |
| 27 | Brushing aside Allen 's pleas not to ‘ take as selfish view of Socialism , a national view ’ , Wheatley argued that the ‘ Living Wage ’ strategy would only work if import duties were introduced to prevent foreign capitalists , employing sweated labour , from reaping the benefit of the increased demand in the British economy . |
| 28 | ‘ The biggest problem though is Queen 's students not playing for the university team and going to other clubs instead . |
| 29 | Sun 's cycles not main cause of warming |
| 30 | Operator 's sleeves not rolled up . |