Example sentences of "[noun sg] not on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when subjects are selected for experiment not on the basis of extreme scores in the attribute being studied but on the scores of some correlated attribute , the same problem can arise . |
| 2 | I shou 'd like a cloth one best if you please — I beg of your Sir to be so good as not to fail me this Cardinal by Wednesday , without fail , but let it be full yard long I beg , or else it will not do fail not on Wednesday , and in so doing you will very much oblige me . |
| 3 | A person with HIV might fall ill with an infection or condition not on the CDC list , and they might be very ill indeed , but they would not necessarily have AIDS . |
| 4 | Maternal risk factors known at booking were age under 18 or over 35 ; primiparity or parity of more than three ; being in manual or non-manual work ; being less than 158 cm tall ; attending antenatal care after 18 weeks ' gestation ; having diabetes ; being a smoker ; being of Asian origin ; having a history of infertility ; having a husband in social class III manual , IV , or V ; and having a general practitioner not on the obstetric list . |
| 5 | Gilbert would probably have done better to base his case not on the child 's moral sense , which was largely that imposed by adults , but rather on the child 's tendency to invest violence with fantasy . |
| 6 | It shows that people who insist ‘ that 's not what it means ’ or ‘ you ca n't say that ’ rest their case not on the facts of language , but on the arrogance of power . |
| 7 | Raskolnikov has admitted to visiting the old woman on the first occasion but of course not on the second . |
| 8 | Of course not on the same scale , but there helping , supporting . |
| 9 | In response to a shortage of sites for further airfield construction , and also to save on huge construction costs , typically about £500,00 , a scheme was submitted to the Air Ministry whereby aircraft could take-off not on conventional runways , but by means of centrifugal launchers . |
| 10 | ‘ But I hope not for two weeks — and then with any luck not on a Friday , or I may have to ask Doctor Masters to deputise for me . ’ |
| 11 | This was a Court of Appeal decision not on the substantive issues , and merely established that there was an arguable case , but it does mean that purchasers and investors alike should be cautious about relying on warranties if they have actual knowledge of breach at the time the contract is made . |
| 12 | Fittingly , bidders would stake money not on numbers but on a bestiary of images , from the avestruz ( ostrich ) to the vaca ( cow ) . |
| 13 | It is typical of the Labour party 's attitude that it would fritter away additional resources by spending more money not on increasing the number of training places but on paying more to those already in training places . |
| 14 | It seems that we would be much better off if we spent money not on constructing a barrage but on cleaning up the various sewage works that I have castigated over the years . |
| 15 | Bacon had little interest in English neo-romanticism and Minton would have been unable to accept Bacon 's nihilism , his insistence that man is a futile being who has to play out the game dependent not on reason but chance . |
| 16 | 30 June 1989 found most of the battalion not on guard in bearskins and tunics , but enjoying the last day of a fortnight 's shooting on the ranges at Salisbury Plain , on ISAAC . |
| 17 | He concluded , ‘ The matter … falls for determination not on the basis of accuracy , validity , or acceptability of the scientific evidence or aspects of it , but simply upon its existence . ’ |
| 18 | One issue not on the agenda , on US insistence , was the COCOM list [ see pp. 37021 ; 36822 ] . |
| 19 | A Dangerous Man — Lawrence After Arabia looks at the maverick hero not on the battlefield but in London and Paris after World War I. |
| 20 | I did n't understand her questions was it the figures had come from the private sector I 'm not sure if she understood it herself either erm we 've talked in the social services planning cuts committee about a list of homes for refurbishment and Mr wanted a very long list er a list which would blight every home not on the list . |
| 21 | I am sure you would agree that , when an hon. Member uses the term filibuster to describe our proceedings , that is a slur not on Labour Members but on the Chairman of the Committee in question . |
| 22 | This is my pivot on which to turn to the last , and I think most important category of what you call the breakdown of law and order , because it leads us to concentrate our attention not on the silent majority but on another point in society . |
| 23 | He therefore concentrated his attention not on the Kent coast but on the Isle of Wight , where the French had actually landed in the past and which , once occupied , could serve as a base to paralyse and capture Portsmouth . |
| 24 | A company my request a one-time exemption for a crop not on the list or it may ask the government to add its crop to a list of those permanently exempted form the permitting requirement . |
| 25 | What has to be registered Section 396 , which sets out the charges that have to be registered , enumerates a list of registrable charges and any charge not on the list does not have to be registered . |
| 26 | One of the best known illustrations of inversion is the model on a Euclidean plane , such as this page , that the French mathematician Henri Poincaré made of the non Euclidean ‘ hyperbolic ’ plane , A Euclidean plane is one that obeys Euclid 's famous fifth postulate : in other words , given a line , and a point not on that line , only one other line in the plane ( a parallel to the first line ) can pass through the point and not meet the given line . |
| 27 | Thus we might wish to teach a particular structure or word meaning not on the grounds of frequency of occurrence but because its acquisition provides a basis for the learner to understand and learn other structures or meanings by extension . |
| 28 | Why is my name not on there ? |
| 29 | Fire extinguisher not on bracket . |
| 30 | It was to be revolution not on the rates but on a private income . |