Example sentences of "not [num] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but the Open University ones cover all of the material and they 're what I actually wrote the lectures from erm but there 's six of them which is why the o the only advantage of the other one is that it 's one not six and so but I mean the material is all covered text of which there are three copies of most of them in the library one on short loan and one on sort of a general loan so you |
| 2 | ‘ We need to go back to 1979 when we had adequate services up here , when there were eleven trains a day from Hartlepool to Darlington , not three as there now are and from May there will be none at all . |
| 3 | ‘ But I could n't bring myself to throw the boots away and am not 31 until later this month . |
| 4 | He gave the city not eighty or so acres of ground , but more like two hundred and twenty , he burned to have the funds to take up lovingly every acre of those two hundred and twenty , and tenderly brush away the dust of centuries from every artifact he expected to recover ; and his expectations were high . |
| 5 | On Jan. 7 the Iraqi Health Minister Umid Midhat Mubarak said that 85,942 Iraqis , including 27,473 children under five [ not 80,000 as wrongly given in the first paragraph of the article on p. 38696 ] , had died due to medical shortages . |
| 6 | The USA had begun diplomatic contact with the PLO in December 1988 [ not 1987 as erroneously stated on p. 37444 ] after PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat had " totally and absolutely renounced all forms of terrorism " [ see p. 36438 ] . |
| 7 | There ca n't be two — not two and both connected with Roman antiquities ! |
| 8 | The SADR first took its seat at the Organization of African Unity summit of 1984 , not 1989 as inadvertently given on pp. 37014 , 37220 . |
| 9 | It was the fifth test since the French government 's adoption of a new policy of disclosing all such tests , announced in May 1990 [ not 1989 as wrongly stated on p. 37886 ] . |
| 10 | The Melanesian Spearhead Group ( SPG — composed of Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands and Vanuatu ) , originally formed in 1986 [ not 1988 as wrongly given on p. 36702 ] to press for a strong stance on the New Caledonia issue within the South Pacific Forum , held a summit meeting in the Solomon Islands capital Honiara in March 1990 , when the FLNKS was admitted to full membership . |