Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [prep] the [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never doubted what I was feeling , but I was shocked when it did n't fade over the years , and I went through phases of trying to convince myself that it was some sort of obsession , a perverse desire for the one woman I believed I could never have — or not in the way I wanted you , loving me as well as wanting me . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The second is that they 're not all beautiful — or not in the way you mean . |
| 3 | Erm I do n't know whether we had gremlins in there or er or not in the end I really could n't decide actually to be honest . |
| 4 | She was n't going to let him see that she would jump at it , although not for the reasons he might suppose . |
| 5 | Nuno 's ability is a matter of opinion , but the point about the Trantec ads is a matter of fact , although not for the reason your correspondent quotes . |
| 6 | Essex and Norfolk were obvious and attractive areas for development beyond the more urbanised counties and were to become the main foci of his activity until the outbreak of the war in 1939 and throughout its duration , although not in the way he envisaged in 1936 . |
| 7 | When , in well-cut white satin and glycerine tears , she sobbed , Oh but Daddy I do love him , I do love him , he still tried to reason with her ; but then when he saw her hitching up the satin and running across the lawn , throwing off the veil , scattering the astonished wedding guests as she ran , and when he saw her jumping into a truck , not caring that she was getting petrol stains all over her broderie anglaise , jumping into a truck and not with the man they all expected her to love , but with the one she really loves , and then driving off with him in a cheap pickup truck to a motel in Wisconsin , shouting out , Goodbye Father , Goodbye Father ! as she goes ; well when he saw her doing that then Boy could not bring himself to disapprove . |
| 8 | The simple lines of modern architecture break up space and light in a very mechanical way , and not with the variety I seek in my paintings . |
| 9 | The simple lines of modern architecture break up space and light in a very mechanical way , and not with the variety I seek in my paintings . |
| 10 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the expression ‘ is suffering … significant harm ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 referred to the point in time immediately before the process of protecting the child began , so that , in determining whether the first threshold condition of section 31(2) was satisfied , the court had to consider the position before the commencement of the voluntary care when the children were with the mother ; that the condition in section 31(2) ( b ) related to care by the parent or carer whose lack of care had caused the significant harm to the child and not to the care which might be given by other carers if no care order were to be made , which only became relevant once the threshold conditions under section 31(2) had been satisfied in deciding whether or not a care order should be made ; and that it could not be said that the family proceedings court had been wrong in concluding , first , that the threshold conditions were satisfied and , secondly , on the evidence , that a care order to the local authority was the appropriate order ( post , pp. 1013H — 1014A , E–F , H — 1015B ) . |
| 11 | Mike Benton in his article on the rhynchosaurs ( 7 April , p 9 ) suggests that the so-called battle for survival really took place between the food-source plants and not between the animals themselves . |
| 12 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 13 | Bring newly bought house plants home on the floor of the car and not in the boot which can be much colder . |
| 14 | The increased incorporation occurs only in the groups showing memory and not in the group which is trained but amnesic . |
| 15 | In this connection it is worth bearing in mind that a hospital birth will be recorded in the registration district in which the hospital stands and not in the district which contains the parents ' home . |
| 16 | A word of advice to women of child-bearing age is to begin the diet just after your period has arrived and not in the week your period is due . |
| 17 | Several seconds passed before Isabel realised her name had come from beyond the wall and not from the man whose fingers still gently caressed her cheek . |
| 18 | For example in a database containing the full text of literary works , each work will be protected in its own right and the duration of protection for that work will be based on the life of the author plus fifty years , or in the case of an Act of Parliament ( subject to Crown Copyright ) 125 years from the end of the calendar year during which it was created , and not from the time it was entered into the database . |
| 19 | The major objection to this argument is that the obligations are contained within the Protocol and not within the Treaty itself ; there is no organic link between the two legal instruments creating a mutuality of obligations . |
| 20 | Accordingly , there was a sense in which humanity remained close to the center , if not at the center itself . |
| 21 | I took refuge in the truth , if not with the truth he wanted . |
| 22 | If not for the operation it would only be a matter of months before she had to go on Dialysis . |
| 23 | The fiction is maintained that these lists of the worthy , the deserving and the hitherto unrecognized are supervised , if not by the Queen herself , then at least by her staff . |
| 24 | Nan 's no fool , and our precise Mr Peeble , who I am sure is quite used to pregnancies , will have detected something before now if not from the narration he has heard above his head over the past days . |
| 25 | She could lose herself in a place like this ; if not in the valley itself , then in some other part of the region . |
| 26 | Can I ask would that seriously if it were limited or by virtue of the panel report having identified this problem we reported that we saw a problem if it included B eight , would that be a problem from the point of view either Harrogate or Selby if B eight was in effect , if not in the policy itself , excluded ? |
| 27 | Thus , a mercantile agent in possession of the registration book but not of the vehicle itself can not confer good title under section 2 of the Factors Act , Beverley Acceptances v. Oakely ( 1982 C.A. ) . |
| 28 | Some of those who had supported the 1936 rising had done so in the belief that the objective was the overthrow of the Popular Front , but not of the Republic itself . |
| 29 | Finis to the race , but not to the incidents which marred his season . |
| 30 | The contents of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files can influence PC performance but not to the degree you complain of . |