Example sentences of "not [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not historic buildings , except for his last home at Schloss Solitude , outside Stuttgart , but elderly , ordinary , slightly shabby houses , planned and built in an earlier age , that had acquired a comfortable individuality in occupation by previous occupants , and lent themselves to his own way of living and working . |
| 2 | I believe that such a sharing will lead to each school establishing its own targets : not narrow targets like those listed by well-intentioned politicians but much broader-based priorities . |
| 3 | Power showers , which are connected via a pump to the hot and cold supplies ( but not mains-fed supplies ) provide a much greater water flow and , usually , a choice of spray patterns . |
| 4 | Some may be given an ample incentive , like Rodney Brooke , former chief executive of Westminster City Council , who received a £1 million early retirement package for not revealing details of the Council 's sale for 15p of three cemeteries . |
| 5 | It is clear from this that it was social and not technical factors which were responsible for the emergence of factory production . |
| 6 | Its failure to take the market , in Slater 's view , was due to strategic and not technical reasons . |
| 7 | It was , however , J. Dover Wilson , at the time an HMI , who wrote in detail of the need for a type of education which was ‘ adapted to the needs of citizens in an industrial democracy ’ and this , he maintained , required not technical classes but ‘ informed humanism ’ . |
| 8 | At least we are builders , not bloody wreckers , ’ he added in mitigation . |
| 9 | When you think of it , these chemists to date , no wonder their wives are on a low wage and the moaning all the time because they 're not bloody chemists , they 're just getting pills out of a box |
| 10 | ‘ Not bloody tortoises again , mamma mia ! ’ came a voice from the back . |
| 11 | Thus in the UK the existing legal framework is limited to immunities , not specific rights . |
| 12 | However , the manual system lacked a direct link with a title listing , i.e. , the end result of the consultation was a classification number and not specific titles from which further refinement could have been made . |
| 13 | The information received typically referred only to the riot 's location , and not specific incidents . |
| 14 | It was held that therefore they were not specific goods . |
| 15 | The 500 tons were not specific goods because , in the words of Lord Hanworth M.R. ‘ There was no ascertainment or identification of the 500 tons out of the cargo in bulk . ’ |
| 16 | Whether or not specific arrangements were discussed by the two unionist groupings , the election was more of a success for the conservatives than would be implied by the victory of one of the two Protestant Unionists . |
| 17 | The claims and counter-claims of the NUM and the NCB regarding the number of strikers were the focus of much debate , but in general if not specific terms there is little doubt that MacGregor 's ( 1986 , p. 341 ) claims for January 1985 were accurate : |
| 18 | These are not accidental oversights on the part of the academic community . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a long way to go for a 45-minute service and a reception — even if you 're not 92 years old , ’ said one of her aides , who insisted that her absence was not intended as a snub . |
| 20 | Upjohn J held on the facts of the case that the transfer of assets and the making of the loan were not associated operations , so that the section was not applicable . |
| 21 | The images the media present of ‘ reality ’ are , for many , accounts of ‘ real ’ events and not fictional ones . |
| 22 | Now workers say management created South Korea 's problems by not investing profits into expansion ; management say workers wanted too much money . |
| 23 | Nodular argyrophil cell hyperplasia and morphometric density of argyrophil cells were not stable phenomena : nodular hyperplasias regressed in five patients , remained similar in six , and progressed to a small carcinoid tumour in one . |
| 24 | There are some being found , but not stable ones erm we know all the elements which are going to be stable on the planet earth as we know it . |
| 25 | These investors were not rich entrepreneurs who could aford the loss , the court was told , but ordinary savers who wanted , and were promised , a good return on their savings . |
| 26 | Throughout her article , Blum-Kulka renders Hebrew expressions used by the interviewer to direct each talk with natural-sounding English expressions which are not literal renderings of the Hebrew but which express similar modal meanings . |
| 27 | What frightened him most was their absolute silence , the way they stared , unmoving , not issuing threats . |
| 28 | We learn , therefore , two important lessons : deciding before intervention what our goals and objectives are , if possible a common decision of all the participants ( though separate , if not conflicting decisions would be legitimate ) ; and setting criteria and measurement indicators to show the relationship between participation and effectiveness . |
| 29 | Officers need to correlate information and if visits are necessary they should decide , with the chief executive 's support , the need to visit Europe , not Labour Councillors on a junket costing twenty thousand out of the pockets of our Charge payers . |
| 30 | Mr Brown said : ‘ Even those who are not Labour supporters recognise he grew in stature during the campaign . ’ |