Example sentences of "not [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | O Heavens ! that this treason were not , or not I the detector ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . " … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The way of doubt is not itself the path to truth , but in sealing off mistaken approaches it provides an impetus to the search . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Note by the way that a picture of a graph , like Figure 1 , is not itself the graph . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This action is not itself the centre of interest , however . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | To see it requires imagination , and yet it is not itself the product of imagination . |
| 11 | This , however , produces a further paradox , for this reflexive style , welding the practical mastery and special knowledge of the subjective insider to an objective interpretation of events is not one the institution of policing is geared up to handle . |
| 12 | This is not something the public knows much about ; history textbooks are inadequate , and the older generation will not discuss it . |
| 13 | Living and working separately from men , on our own , or with other women and children , as a conscious political choice and labelled separatism is not something the vast majority of women would identify as a possibility . |
| 14 | In many contexts the impression one gets is that this happening is not something the speaker would have expected , but all such uses express a critical judgement on the person represented as the infinitive 's support having gone ahead and done something when , in the speaker 's opinion , he should not have . |
| 15 | It 's not something the local MP totally agrees with . |
| 16 | It 's not something the average student would expect to come up on the sylabus and Katharine 's still recovering from the shock . |
| 17 | A thin wiry woman , her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling . |
| 18 | Gorbachov , not him the other one |
| 19 | ‘ Is not he the Swedish explosives magnate ? ’ |
| 20 | Is not it the case that the sooner the Government face a general election and are defeated , the sooner small firms will have a decent chance in the economy ? |
| 21 | Is not it the case that the present underlying rate of inflation in the United Kingdom is 5.5 per cent . |
| 22 | Although I agree with the Minister that empty properties could be used to house homeless people , is not it the case that until capital receipts are released from the sale of council properties , councils will not have the resources to put properties back into use for people who need them ? |
| 23 | Is not it the truth that CTCs have emerged only as a result of the lavish use of taxpayers ' money to prop them up ? |
| 24 | Is not it the case that we do not have widely available anywhere near the diversity of potatoes that is available in other countries , such as the United States ? |
| 25 | Is not it the truth that the right hon. and learned Gentleman 's Government , having created recession and unemployment , do not care about the casualties of their policies ? |
| 26 | Is not it the case that the European Commission , through the THERMIE programme , would back Bilsthorpe only if it was certain to go ahead , and that the only way to ensure that was through Government support ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Centrifugal launchers did at least recognise a genuine need , even if they were not themselves the solution . |
| 30 | This section will consider not what the critics write in reviews of exhibitions , but the criticism which is contained within the exhibition catalogues ; not the commentary from the box , but the programme of events . |