Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words were n't his natural medium , but these days , when I went to help out in the shop , he inevitably took me aside — blackmailing me with samosas , sherbet fountains and the opportunity not to work — for an extended ear-bashing . |
| 2 | In my judgment therefore the equivalent of this principle today is the right of each family to home ownership , the need for more diffused and direct ownership of equity capital and the opportunity not just for a formal education but for retraining and post-experience training in later life . |
| 3 | Given the opportunity not to be continually wrapped in a nappy a 1-year-old child will show a lot of interest in urination and indicate what has happened . |
| 4 | That is why today , some years on , at a Lloyd club near you , there is the opportunity not only to play tennis ( naturally ) squash , and racket ball , but also to benefit from the wider aspects of health and fitness via the clubs fitness facilities and aerobics classes . |
| 5 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 6 | Sixty-five percent of wives were happy to attend in their husbands ' place with the remainder not enthusiastic . |
| 7 | By setting up the Secret Committee Alexander acted in the style of his father ; by ordering Nazimov to delve more deeply into the views of the north-westerners he showed sympathy for a landless concept of emancipation which belonged to the reign of Alexander I. The regime seemed to be moving in the direction not so much of freeing the serfs as of turning a blind eye to them ( by consigning their future to yet another assembly of antediluvian officials ) or making their condition worse ( by opting for a form of emancipation which would blight their future ) . |
| 8 | It is a telling commentary upon parliament but even more so upon the church 's limited political potency : at that stage , the clergy needed the support not just of the commons but of the peers as well in order to defend effectively their privileges and franchises ; repeal was effected in the council and chiefly through the agency of the lords ; when the prelates contemplated a riposte in convocation they were instantly quelled by writs of prohibition . |
| 9 | He will have the support not only of Labour Members but of all Scottish Members who are genuinely concerned about Scottish education and keen to see it debated properly in the House . |
| 10 | He had secured the support not just of members of parties which had formerly been members of the ruling coalition , but also of the Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — the former Communist Party ) and the Greens . |
| 11 | In the latter case , could the GP not have discussed this with the individual first ? why resort to possible compulsory powers ? |
| 12 | The conclusion seems to be that where one wishes the UCTA not to apply , one should , where possible , by observing the relevant conflict of law rules , create a contract genuinely governed by a foreign proper law , so that there is no need for an express choice of law clause which can be attacked or negated under s 27(2) . |
| 13 | Therefore in such cases , where it is desired that the UCTA not apply , one method is to draft one contract for both goods and services , and not two separate contracts for each element . |
| 14 | erm one did take up on public individuals if they made a profit have the board not considered perhaps teaming public individuals to run the theatre ? . |
| 15 | SMT decided to create a new post in the directorate not higher than G2 . |
| 16 | the independent film movement aims to understand the cinema not as a profit-making machine confined to the realm of ‘ mass entertainment , but as one of the central means whereby a society consciously speaks to and thus understands itself … |
| 17 | I went to the cinema not for entertainment , but for cinematography . |
| 18 | The low success rate for finding the width is due to the measure not being a whole number of metres . |
| 19 | Africa Confidential of June 14 said that although 13 members of the government were Issaqs , its membership was " carefully balanced " between the main Issaq sub-clans and other clans ; the delay in appointing the government underlined the lack of agreement over the secession among SNM leaders , some of whom regarded the measure not as final but as merely a " step towards renegotiating the 1960 unification and redressing an unequal relationship " . |
| 20 | It is feelings , the heart not the mind , which are at the core of the Green polity . |
| 21 | The heart not only explains what we do , but why we do it . |
| 22 | He felt he was at the heart not just of Royalbion House , not even of London , but of the entire cosmos . |
| 23 | Under a trust of this kind , a debtor was asked by his creditor ( the settlor ) to repay the money not to him ( or rather his heir ) but to a third party . |
| 24 | In addition he accepted an undertaking by the defendent not to reveal other than to his legal advisers the fact that he had made communications to FIMBRA and the Inland Revenue . |
| 25 | Masturbation is freely practised , even in cells shared by three men and usually homosexual encounters are possible , but the real loss is not genital sex but the small intimacies that freedom makes possible … the hugging , the kissing , the cuddling , the skin contact , the smell not only of their woman but of their children after a bath . |
| 26 | The atmosphere was heavy , oppressive , the smell not immediately identifiable but a combination of human and engine smells , while the only sounds were a soft moaning from a woman towards the front of the plane and the voice of a man trying to reassure someone . |
| 27 | Okay , let's swap over , what I want you to remember is it 's not a conversation it 's not the try not to get into a conversation what we 're trying to do is we 're trying to stick to one person 's trying to stick to their point the other person 's trying to take them off it , okay ? |
| 28 | This feedback shall be made available to the Programmer not later than four weeks after receipt of the draft version of the Program . |
| 29 | As is always the case not everyone was pleased : one of Booth 's team described it as a ‘ large and rather ugly building ’ although ‘ its interior looks well enough when crowded with people . ’ |
| 30 | This was the case not only three hundred years ago , but also in Britain in the 1990s . |