Example sentences of "and [not/n't] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was part of the way of life for the gentry , and not the political issue it is today . |
| 2 | Is he aware that there will be a wide welcome for my assurance that an incoming Labour Government will review each and every one of these decisions to ensure that the size and structure of the regiments in Scotland and throughout the United Kingdom reflect our military needs , and not the political expediency of the Tory party ? |
| 3 | ‘ One must recognise that these polls take place , but also carefully remember that a decision about any vacancy that takes place is taken by my colleagues in the House of Commons , and not the general public . ’ |
| 4 | And that she could n't stop thinking about him now was infuriating , never mind that the thoughts were angry ones and not the sloppy , sentimental stuff that had made her weep the first few nights after she 'd left Rome . |
| 5 | ‘ You will perceive ’ , he noted touchily to Jardine , when Jardine implied that the subscribers had borne the cost of the cancellation , ‘ that I am a looser [ sic ] and that to a considerable amount , and not the former subscribers . ’ |
| 6 | Hamilton asserted that in ordinary life it was the strong arm of the law and not the strong arm of the husband which protected women from hurt or molestation . |
| 7 | The yarn I was using was cotton , a double knitting weight and not the best for cabling at any time and I did need to have cables , since I had sketched them into my design . |
| 8 | ‘ Not the worst and not the best , this is everyday . ’ |
| 9 | His book Twilight over England , cites the case of a Jewish student who burst into tears when he discovered that he was only the second best and not the best in the list of those who had passed their medical exams . |
| 10 | And not the worst and not the best , just about average . |
| 11 | This is hardly the best of reasons for planting , and not the right attitude . |
| 12 | SUMMER nights are very short and not the right time of the year to look out for the stars . |
| 13 | The most fundamental realization that needs to be made is that desktop publishing uses ‘ real ’ typefaces which are proportionally spaced and not the monospaced characters of the word processing world . |
| 14 | On July 23 Gerashchenko had denounced the moves and instructed all Russian banks to obey Gosbank and not the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet . |
| 15 | Note that a brake drum is part of the wheel and not the braking system . |
| 16 | Thus it has been shown that with professional pre-planning and management , exhibitions can be a powerful sales tool and not the expensive luxury that many companies regard them to be . |
| 17 | Revolution was only one , and not the commonest , method pursued by burghers ; taking advantage of political disturbance could bring more speedy results . |
| 18 | I was very shy and not the sharpest of children . |
| 19 | Most of 's societal framework refers to the provinces and not the better known institutions centralized in Paris , an approach that makes a refreshing change . |
| 20 | Each criterion will be concerned with the supervisory aspects of Bill 's job and not the technical aspects . |
| 21 | The House of Lords held that in the context ‘ transferring ’ obviously meant assigning the beneficial interest and not the technical process of having a transfer registered . |
| 22 | referring to Council treadmills and not the actual committee . . |
| 23 | I think that 's that absolutely horrific and that has come from one of the practice partners and not the actual himself . |
| 24 | Indeed , occasionally one can , even in normal males , observe amplification of the control locus and not the Y-chromosome locus . |
| 25 | and would do very well at it if it was a sensible package and not the rubbishy WordPerfect . |
| 26 | But I personally feel that these two books are not just blood and gore , for they both actually have deep , rather strange and mysterious story lines , and not the usual one of an horrific axe-murderer ! |
| 27 | Under this section , the police authority and not the chief officer of police , has the responsibility for ensuring the complaint is investigated . |
| 28 | Yet it is not arbitrary that the idea of this particular should remind us of these and not other particulars , and that these and not the other particulars should have the same name used of them . |
| 29 | A High Court action needs to be a team effort between the client and his solicitor and barrister , otherwise the action tends to run the client and not the other way round . |
| 30 | I ca n't live off my mother and my younger brother : I 'm supposed to look after them and not the other way round . |