Example sentences of "[not/n't] [pn reflx] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |
| 2 | The data we have examined suggest that the poll tax was not itself the prime cause of the variation in results either between types of local authority or individual councils . |
| 3 | The way of doubt is not itself the path to truth , but in sealing off mistaken approaches it provides an impetus to the search . |
| 4 | The man of reason is becoming reconciled to admitting that the function of his reason is critical , that it is not itself the initiator of what it judges to be best in him . |
| 5 | Note by the way that a picture of a graph , like Figure 1 , is not itself the graph . |
| 6 | In short , the fundamental rule that accords legal validity to Acts of Parliament is not itself the foundation of the legal order , beyond which the lawyer is forbidden to look . |
| 7 | This action is not itself the centre of interest , however . |
| 8 | When a patient is detained under the MHA 1983 , but the physical disorder is not caused by or is not itself the cause of a mental disorder , a restrictive interpretation of this proposal could lead to the ridiculous scenario of doctors having to wait for such a patient to deteriorate or become unconscious before medical treatment could be initiated under the protection of common law duty of care and the doctrine of necessity . |
| 9 | To see it requires imagination , and yet it is not itself the product of imagination . |
| 10 | A thin wiry woman , her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling . |
| 11 | These results suggest that , although very high or very low poll tax demands could affect the performance of either party , levels of community charge were not themselves the prime determinant of electoral behaviour . |
| 12 | We can sum up the thread of the argument here by saying that binary oppositions , such as masculine/feminine , are not themselves the first principles of semantics and human cognition , they are a system grafted on in the attempt to analyse those things . |
| 13 | Centrifugal launchers did at least recognise a genuine need , even if they were not themselves the solution . |