Example sentences of "[not/n't] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Heseltine has announced to the Commons that only ten pits will close , not the thirty one announced last week . |
| 2 | It was not the extra work — she did it willingly , willingly . |
| 3 | Is not the extra £3.6 million further evidence of the Government 's clear commitment to fighting crime ? |
| 4 | In spoken discourse , there is not the visual prompt of paragraph-initial line indentation to indicate a division in the discourse structure . |
| 5 | There is not the offensive mouth and dirty tongue of Mercurius but there is more throbbing with the Lachesis tension , like a pot on the boil , a sense of pent up energy . |
| 6 | Unlike most of his contemporaries , Darwin realized that the human race was not the predictable end-product of a universal progressive trend . |
| 7 | The brilliant young composer , not the burned-out playwright . |
| 8 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 9 | You never find out about the water in the instrument systems until you are airborne and it will ruin that flight , if not the entire flying for that day . |
| 10 | This catalogue of pressures and constraints is not the entire story of my life as a lesbian involved in work with girls and young women . |
| 11 | The part detail held is not the entire contents of the drawing file , but merely sufficient data to describe the parts ' associativity and spatial positions in the sub-assembly . |
| 12 | Systematic risk is associated with movements in the market as a whole , while unsystematic risk is due to events which affect only one or a few assets , not the entire market . |
| 13 | Not the entire truth , never that , but that there was something . |
| 14 | The concept of health used in this chapter is not the narrow medicalized term meaning merely the absence of disease . |
| 15 | Erm that 's not the shaped spiral shaped ? |
| 16 | For Lecercle , for instance , the Remainder , in its appearance as folk-etymology , is a reaction against the arbitrariness of the sign and is thus , we might say , " carnivalesque " ; equally , the matter of language is not one that can be finally brought under the rule of one sign alone , so it is polyvocal perhaps : " Language is not the systematic ordering of constants … it is a composite reality that is essentially heterogeneous " ( p. 184 ) . |
| 17 | By March 1989 Paddy Hopkins of MEG was arguing against the type of short-term development involved in mining and in favour of development based on indigenous , renewable natural resources , especially on the tourist and leisure industries : ‘ We want to concentrate on the development of tourism to provide jobs , not the short-term benefit — perhaps five years — which mining would bring ’ . |
| 18 | What the right hon. Gentleman should bear in mind , if he cares about real prosperity for this country , is making sure that we get the economic basics of inflation and the exchange rate correct so that we can get sustainable investment for the long term , not the short-term gimmicks that the right hon. Gentleman embraces . |
| 19 | Philip Field dealt with with railways in the Severn Valley ( not the preserved SVR ) , showing some of the station buildings which have been converted to domestic use , e.g. Coalport . |
| 20 | Whether or not the Communist leaders really believed this or any other of the sweeping statements made at the time is questionable . |
| 21 | Whether or not the Communist Party leaders expected such a letter to have anything more than a propaganda appeal they can hardly have been surprised by the Labour Party reply on 27 January 1936 which rejected the application and outlined the history of relations between the two parties , particularly during the social fascist " period . |
| 22 | And surely the Plaza was not the crowded car-park it is now ? |
| 23 | Anyone in contact with scientists is aware how often general accounts of recent scientific work give the facts but not the mental attitude of the researchers . |
| 24 | Entering the depths of the mind can be extremely dangerous if the would-be mystic has not the mental or physical capacity for this interior quest . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps disease is not the correct medical term , I would not know . |
| 26 | But it is not the whole story ; and it is certainly not the correct starting-point . |
| 27 | What would employees below think to hear us shouting at the top of our voices about what is and what is not the correct Chinaman ? ’ |
| 28 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 29 | She knew it was not the correct mode of address but she felt a little odd , outside reality , and was afraid she was about to dissolve into tears . |
| 30 | The problem I get asked about most is ending up with a seam that is not the correct length , or is wavy . |