Sentence examples for not y from inspiring English sources

Why do we do x and not y?

"I assumed that people would understand they had been underassessed all these years, and that they should be assessed at X and not Y," she said.

Why did you choose job X? Why did you move to university Y? Implicit in these questions is, of course, the path not travelled: why did you do X, but not Y or Z? It's almost never true that there was "nothing else"; it's more likely the other options were unpalatable and/or unfeasible.

It also seems incoherent to intend to X and to intend to Y when one believes that if one Xs, one will not Y.

X, but not Y, is then offered an avoidable gamble, which he decides to take, and as a result he ends up worse off than Y.

The effective concentration difference is, therefore, not y – x, but y – y e, where y e is mx e.

Not Prada Sport, Not Y-3, but bought-from-a-sports-shop, team-specific clothing.

As Robbeets explains, she expects proto-Altaic *ǯ to be reflected as t- in Turkic, not y-; by her correspondences, no proto-Altaic vowel matches the array on the set by Starostin, Dybo and Mudrak; the medial consonant in Tungusic should be -g-, not -y-, and no explanation is provided for final -r in the Turkic forms.

Another possible reason that three ISS mutants with defective stamen development (ISS1, ISS2, and ISS5 in Figure 5) had no detectable deletions of any Y-linked markers may be that the male fertility at the intermediate stages is controlled by genes that are not Y-linked (genes affecting stamen development can, of course, also be located on the autosomes and/or X chromosome).

"Can't y'all talk about anything but food?" I screamed.

"I'd call that a business, wouldn't y'all?" he said.