Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We brought the figure down having at le , and waited two years and that 's th , I think that proves the lad 's foundation to the argument of how desperate the fire service need , need this station and it has absolutely nothing to do with Dovelands school er er whatsoever as far as I 'm concerned , I 'm the spokesperson for public protection not education and that 's it and er I 'm surprised er er that I know erm er er that Mr is is a very , very good supporter of the er southern fire station and supported us in the er in the er question we asked at the last council er meeting and er I 'm surprised he has n't spoke or even Mr who er , who likes to s , who likes to speak in the chamber but I 've has n't supported the fire station . |
| 2 | 22 April : Today ( Motto : ‘ Proper news not propaganda ’ ) reports that ‘ A Labour council has been branded ‘ barmy' for sending a sociologist on a £10,000 European tour to study Nazis . |
| 3 | We try very hard to live up to our slogan , Proper News Not Propaganda . |
| 4 | The new pop sensibility , by contrast , took artifice for granted , celebrated cult not community , defined its subversions in self-consciously formalist terms . |
| 5 | Is cream cheese not margarine ? |
| 6 | I 've never used it before to think of impossible things not things that are absolutely impossible … ’ |
| 7 | Video-screens are designed for human eyes not bee eyes . |
| 8 | He saluted as the great pioneer of National Socialism not Friedrich Nietzsche nor Oswald Spengler , certainly not Hitler nor Mussolini , but the embattled genius of Thomas Carlyle . |
| 9 | Here , the influence is from Ancient Rome not Normandy or Byzantium . |
| 10 | Heavy industry not toys or low quality textiles , was targeted as the driving force for development , and a vast array of incentives and restraints were applied to ensure that the strategy was implemented . |
| 11 | My members are concerned about pay differentials with semi-skilled workers not hospital porters and cleaners . ’ |
| 12 | Though some of those applications came from people who would be generally recognised as refugees , many — between half and two-thirds , according to some observers — are fleeing poverty not persecution . |
| 13 | Activities like ‘ Ouija ’ really are trying to contact spiritual powers — but the power comes from evil spirits not God 's spirits . |
| 14 | To scan , Semiramis should be pronounced SeMIRamis not SEMiramis . |
| 15 | They say by the end of the year NeXT and Microsoft will probably be the only companies not part of COSE . |
| 16 | Their call for a reconsideration of Negro origins reinforces a claim late last year by two South African scientists that southern Africa not West Africa was the home of the first Negroes ( New Scientist , 13 January , p 90 ) . |
| 17 | This is Irish hedonism not sicko chauvinism . |
| 18 | That as miller , albeit milling electricity not corn , he was in possession of ancient rights to the use of water . |
| 19 | You must tell your doctor if you 're allergic to certain antibiotics not penicillin , or to rabbits . |
| 20 | Such ideal conditions contrast sharply with the actual experiences of ‘ war communism ’ : money became valueless because of the disappearance of goods , wages were replaced by rations — the rations of abject poverty not abundance — prices became imaginary because money no longer had any value , and paper money was issued by keeping the printing presses working day and night , amounting to hyper-inflation ! |
| 21 | Diplock LJ said " A contract in restraint of trade is one in which a party ( the covenantor ) agrees with any other party ( the covenantee ) to restrict his liberty in the future to carry on trade with other persons not parties to the contract in such manner as he chooses " . |
| 22 | First , the fact that those in residential care are young people not children ; second , that the main emphasis in child care work has been on the discussion of personal family relationships and in working towards the return of children to their own families or placement with another family . |
| 23 | In other words , major inward investment not relocation of major investment within the U K but major inward investment from say Western Europe or Japan or wherever . |
| 24 | From the management we get positive hinderance not support . |
| 25 | ‘ Labour stands for Active Government — active government not absence of government , ’ he said . |