Example sentences of "[not/n't] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , her one and only moment of intimacy with him had suggested that beneath the odd , touch-me-not facade , there was some passion , if rather unnaturally curbed . |
| 2 | What-I'm-Not Song |
| 3 | The investigation included soil gas surveys and core drilling , and showed that modern industries were not responsible.The pollution probably derived from an engineering works that was closed some IS years ago . |
| 4 | Not Ma , but Mama … |
| 5 | More often than not Ma starts me off only to leave me stranded above the waterdragon with my–backside wedged into the Young Person 's Patent Toilet Seat Adaptor ( another trophy won from the WI jumble by Pa ) . |
| 6 | In Casualty we did not report for duty , we came aboard ; we worked watches , not shifts ; when we went off duty we went ashore ; on our days off we took the liberty boat . |
| 7 | GUST BECOS I CUD NOT SPEL |
| 8 | From this figure we see that the optimal solution of AP is not a tour so that AP is not TSP . |
| 9 | I hope the yungstirs do not hav much dribble with the difficult wurds . |
| 10 | THERE is a cartoon from the Vancouver Sun in Sovereign ( as in monarch , not coin ) , an exhibition designed by the Royal College of Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum . |
| 11 | The rates should not be compared with those for , say , 16-year-old school-leavers ; what we are really measuring is difficulty in finding a graduate-level job , not difficulty in finding a job of any sort . |
| 12 | But with a cheap overdraft facility at around 17.5 per cent , holders should have not difficulty in settling the month 's account in full — and it costs less than a conventional credit card . |
| 13 | Although each screen is deceptively complicated and takes a fair few attempts to solve , the solution is found through brain-power and not trial and error — once you 've solved a screen you 'll never forget how to do it . |
| 14 | Social work intervention concentrated on planning for children in care , and resource finding focusing on families and not institutions . |
| 15 | Since such institutions are the heaviest investors in commercial property , their requirements have driven the market , so that even landlords who are not institutions require an " institutionally acceptable " investment . |
| 16 | Oh , please , not Kenneth Caitlin ! |
| 17 | Not Kenneth Grahame 's 1908 classic … but the answer to 'what happened next ? ' |
| 18 | Er it 's not Kenneth Clarke and it 's not Brian Clough and it 's not Dennis McCarthy and it 's not D H Lawrence . |
| 19 | It 's not Kenneth Clarke Brian Clough it 's not Dennis McCarthy and it 's not D H Lawrence either . |
| 20 | It 's er it 's not Brian Clough and it 's not Kenneth Clarke and it 's not D H Lawrence either . |
| 21 | Now it 's not John Major and it 's not Martin Brandon Bravo and it 's not the Sheriff although we 're thinking on the right lines there , and it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough and it certainly is n't Dennis McCarthy and it 's not D H Lawrence either . |
| 22 | There who are they talking about so far anyway it 's not Kenneth Clarke or Brian Clough or Dennis McCarthy or er D H Lawrence or John Major or Martin Brandon Bravo or the Sheriff . |
| 23 | The most readable of these monographs is Membrane Biochemistry , a perfect little book in which R. C. Hughes describes the structure , biosynthesis and assembly ( but not function ) of biological membranes . |
| 24 | Job titles are thus denotive of seniority not function . |
| 25 | If lesion A affects function X but not function Y while lesion B affects function Y but not function N , it is reasonable to assume that the effects observed are specific to the loci of lesions A and B rather than to the general effects of brain damage . |
| 26 | If lesion A affects function X but not function Y while lesion B affects function Y but not function N , it is reasonable to assume that the effects observed are specific to the loci of lesions A and B rather than to the general effects of brain damage . |
| 27 | Carol Wilson , who had joined in Music Publishing and signed Sting 's songwriting to the company ( but not Sting as an artist ) had developed her own label , DinDisc , under the Virgin umbrella , which in 1980 gave the company one of its best-selling artists , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark . |
| 28 | Ryan raises one of the questions the movie will have to answer in order to be successful : whether or not creativity gives you a licence to search and destroy . |
| 29 | We do n't climb Munros because we are not climbers . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not conjecture , ’ he declared . |