Example sentences of "not the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Paragraph B suggests that er we 're dealing with a report which proports to address er community leadership and representation that 's not the purpose of the report . |
| 32 | For too long I thought this type of training was not the responsibility of the vet . |
| 33 | No distinction will be made between the two funds involved even though one of them was not the responsibility of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 34 | Is the appointment of Regent , or acting Regent , not the responsibility of the Privy Council ? ’ |
| 35 | It is not the responsibility of governments to run the industry of the nation , but rather to provide a stable environment which will allow private capital to create jobs and wealth for the general good . |
| 36 | Is not the responsibility of determining the level of revenue , at least within a variation , precisely what is needed to make a Parliament responsible ? |
| 37 | Phrases like ‘ unauthorized purchase — not the responsibility of the company ’ rumbled around the room . |
| 38 | 1.8 The definition of " contributory negligence " in s1(1) of the Law Reform ( Contributory Negligence ) Act 1945 ( see Appendix B ) refers to " the claimant 's share in the responsibility for the damage " ( not the responsibility for the cause of the damage ) . |
| 39 | And is not the thought of , say , blue different from the thought of green in some way which we may one day be in a position to describe , just as we are now able to describe the causal conditions for the experience green which is different from the experience of blue ? |
| 40 | You could say it is envy , and indeed that is partly true , And I wo n't pretend that a factor in one 's accepting such an invitation is not the thought of spending a week in a grand hotel . |
| 41 | This brings me to London , not the thought about run down and neglected buildings , but the one concerning older architecture . |
| 42 | This brings me to London , not the thought about run down and neglected buildings , but the one concerning older architecture . |
| 43 | As she confessed much later , it was not the thought of failure which made Bradlaugh and herself pause at the outset : |
| 44 | For now she was torn between two places and it was not the thought of her father that bound her to this place . |
| 45 | It was not the thought of a fall that worried her . |
| 46 | The source of these difficulties is not the campaign of opposition waged by the British Medical Association , nor is it an incipient revolt among backbench MPs . |
| 47 | Life in the guise of the crime-and-punishment process snatches up hunter and hunted into the contradictions and cruelties and deceits and frailties which are , in a word , life — not the whole of life of course , but life . |
| 48 | But ‘ goodness of fit ’ is not the whole of the art of curve fitting — users are encouraged to step through other equation fits , viewing the data and residuals plots as well as the data tables , and all are very conveniently accomplished . |
| 49 | The eminent weekend ‘ assessors ’ are no doubt most conscientious in their task and , despite the apparent absence of a ‘ score card ’ , come to their conclusions in inviolate objectivity , but that is not the whole of the process . |
| 50 | Education is not the whole of life and there is much information that men must acquire and many skills they must learn which are no part of education . |
| 51 | Blackstone thought it ‘ highly necessary for preserving the balance of the constitution that the executive power should be a branch , though not the whole , of the legislature . |
| 52 | But if during his lifetime the testator gave the legatee not the whole but part of the price of the office , a claim for the remainder remains unless the heir has shown that the testator departed from this too . |
| 53 | Of course , naming is not the whole of language , as the opening passage of Wittgenstein 's Investigations makes us so well aware ; yet it is no doubt a central part of language , and still an important and controversial topic in the philosophy of language . |
| 54 | But method is not the whole of psychology , and no psychological method is intrinsically feminist or anti-feminist . |
| 55 | The attention of people in Britain was focused on the area where Marlborough was campaigning , particularly because this was the area of the greatest military and financial commitment , but this was not the whole of the struggle . |
| 56 | Science , then , is not the whole of experience but only an abstract mode of experience . |
| 57 | Legal rules are not the whole of the instructions — departmental policy guidelines , for example , play a large part — but legal rules are of considerable importance because they are binding and authoritative . |
| 58 | But this is not the whole of Eisenman 's argument . |
| 59 | These tremendous images … are not the whole of Christ 's teaching , but they set forth the supernatural mystery which is the heart of the teaching … . |
| 60 | But that was not the whole of the Webbs ' criticism of Owen 's grand project for the reconstitution of the economy as a set of nationwide industrial co-operatives , one for each trade or industry . |