Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If the court decided at this stage that the case did not in fact involve the performance of a public function , the case should normally be allowed to continue as a non-Ord. 53 case if the applicant wished .
2 But the fires were bonfires and the bells told not of danger but of joy .
3 That the outlaws had not in fact appeared was due to the violence of the storm and to the message which that very evening they received by smoke signal .
4 Hence the dictionary aims not at completeness but rather at covering the more usual words of the language and avoids rare usages of these words .
5 A mother invariably in the kitchen while father is at work or cleaning the car does not in fact represent the actuality of British family life today .
6 Yet the statute did not in practice provide the absolute ban which it seemed to promise , nor did it deprive the church of acquisitions .
7 Moreover I agree with her that , if there is to be a right to recovery in respect of taxes exacted unlawfully by the revenue , it is irrelevant to consider whether the old rule barring recovery of money paid under mistake of law should be abolished , for that rule can have no application where the remedy arises not from error on the part of the taxpayer , but from the unlawful nature of the demand by the revenue .
8 However , this presumption can be rebutted in particular cases where it can be shown that , even in a business situation , the parties do not in fact want to make an enforceable contract .
9 After doing this several times in a two-seater during training , the student may find both that applying full opposite rudder will stop the spin and that the glider does not in fact re-stall again even if the stick is kept back .
10 The coach did not in fact crash and if he had remained on it he would have suffered no harm .
11 The Noble Lord , Lord said on many occasions Justices of the Peace do not in fact become involved in matters of this sort and the Home Secretary of the day of whatever party he may be a member , will then have his majority on very nearly every police authority in England and Wales .
12 Furthermore , the Committee does not in fact know how the public perceives the ambit of the law of rape , nor did it attempt to find out .
13 The gifts of which evidence was given were in favour of the plaintiff 's children and in the circumstances did not in substance conflict … with his intention to benefit the plaintiff .
14 The diocese does n't at present pay married deacons , and Jane Lloyd ( who is married ) is paid by the National Health Service .
15 In the simplest terms , these can be thought of as particles which at the moment do not in fact exist — but one day might .
16 The implication of the second sub-paragraph of Article 130R(5) therefore appears to be that although that provision gives the Community competence to negotiate international agreements relating to the protection of the environment , if the Community has not in fact exercised its powers internally , then Member States may continue to enter into international arrangements in their own right .
17 The difference lies not in ideology , nor in what they have to offer for exchange , but in their unequal vulnerability to the disapproval of the United States , the IMF and the World Bank .
18 The Comforter comes not in order to allow men to be comfortable , but to make them missionaries .
19 Americans knew far too much about the reality of strikes to accept a film in which , in the words of James Shelley Hamilton , ‘ the trouble arises not from working conditions but from a professional trouble-maker and is solved not according to any principles but by an act of sheer moronic terrorism ’ .
20 People realized it could n't when , in nineteen sixty four , a biologist by the name of Wyn Edwards at the University of Edinburgh actually bothered to publish a book arguing the theory , and when Wyn Edwards argued the case , almost immediately most people began to realize that it , that it did n't make sense and that most of the evidence that he thought supported the theory does n't in fact do so , and today Wyn Edwards has himself refused it , even he now er admits that group selection er can not work .
21 The government agreed not to station security forces on Bougainville on condition that the BRA disbanded itself and surrendered its weapons and prisoners to an international peace-keeping force .
22 The Government govern not by consent or even by diktat but by spite — spite against the mining communities .
23 ‘ When the government decided not to ringfence the money , the future was still uncertain during the period of the judicial review .
24 ‘ On Tuesday the call came not at lunchtime but early in the morning , about seven forty-five .
25 Thus , in Smith , it was held that the legislation does not in fact create a ladder of alternative offences but rather that each of the offences must be charged where the facts so warrant it .
26 What was intended by the supplier had not in fact materialised , because the case had been tried on correspondence rather than a correctly drawn up agreement .
27 But even in the case of such an Act , if there are superadded provisions which attach to non-payment consequences other than a bare liability to be sued , there can be no justification for refusing to have regard to those consequences and to consider whether the existence of the provisions creating them has placed the payer under such pressure that the payments have not in truth been voluntary .
28 But only so far as this : that the Pioneers did not in fact succeed in creating the Manufacturing Society as a Co-operative .
29 The profession has not to date , unlike the world of venture capital , perceived any practical advantages to be obtained from their use .
30 The Fund does not at present set a residency requirement , so few if any arguments are left for keeping Flemish bees away from the Dutch honey pot .
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