Example sentences of "[not/n't] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rates should not be compared with those for , say , 16-year-old school-leavers ; what we are really measuring is difficulty in finding a graduate-level job , not difficulty in finding a job of any sort . |
| 2 | But with a cheap overdraft facility at around 17.5 per cent , holders should have not difficulty in settling the month 's account in full — and it costs less than a conventional credit card . |
| 3 | Cos this , this is definitely not communism in any sense . |
| 4 | There is a clear consensus that the case for the public ownership and management by State corporations of whole industries was limited ; and , further , that the objective was not nationalisation for its own sake , but the need to bring economic enterprise under social control — whatever that means . |
| 5 | Perhaps I 'll do it by process of elimination ; find out what I 'm not bit by bit until I know who I am . ’ |
| 6 | But there is not excuse for those who confuse ‘ England ’ ( nation ) with ‘ Britain ’ ( the multi-national state ) . |
| 7 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 8 | Struggling throughout his life with his own infirmity of will , and with a haunting sense that he was like some great tree possessing ‘ pith within the Trunk , not heart of Wood ’ , he was consistently drawn , for good and ill , to those possessing stronger personalities than his own . |
| 9 | The two men , forced by their fate into this intimacy that was not intimacy at all , sat in silence , the words used up . |
| 10 | In Lawson v Rolfe ( 1969 ) 46 TC 199 , it was held that stock dividends paid under a particular provision in the law of California were not income in the hands of a life tenant of an American will trust . |
| 11 | It was not income from the interest under the trust ( which would have been a foreign possession regardless of the underlying sources ) . |
| 12 | Maybe the reader 's first thought an experiment of my own showed that this is not misinterpretation in any simple sense . |
| 13 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 14 | I did n't either , but then anti-hydro protesting is not vogue in these ‘ green ’ times . |
| 15 | But at an individual le level as well if you want , but no not kind of just it 's not a commitment to have to go away and do something next week . |
| 16 | I it is competitive because people are not kind of getting the money that we pay . |
| 17 | It is not kind of you . ’ |
| 18 | And it 's not kind of standard champagne in the place but she always keeps a supply . |
| 19 | So it 's not kind of country cottage style . |
| 20 | ‘ You are not kind to your little seester ! ’ |
| 21 | The weather was not kind to the competitors in 1987 , being very wet and stormy . |
| 22 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 23 | The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director . |
| 24 | And so , the media was not kind after Sharon 's slaughter by the Manson disciples , hence Nicholson 's remark about Sharon having been murdered in the newspapers . |
| 25 | From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace . |
| 26 | Only a Russian would find all that surprising , or fail to understand that freedom which is not misused is not freedom at all . |
| 27 | The words used by the testator did not set up a trust , for they represented not testation with respect to his own property ( which would , of course , have been legitimate ) but an attempt to deprive one of his daughters of her right to free testation . |
| 28 | Ramsey asked the pointed question whether William Temple would have been able to write if he had been Bishop of London and not Archbishop of York . |
| 29 | The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets . |
| 30 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |