Example sentences of "not [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rates should not be compared with those for , say , 16-year-old school-leavers ; what we are really measuring is difficulty in finding a graduate-level job , not difficulty in finding a job of any sort . |
| 2 | But with a cheap overdraft facility at around 17.5 per cent , holders should have not difficulty in settling the month 's account in full — and it costs less than a conventional credit card . |
| 3 | Carol Wilson , who had joined in Music Publishing and signed Sting 's songwriting to the company ( but not Sting as an artist ) had developed her own label , DinDisc , under the Virgin umbrella , which in 1980 gave the company one of its best-selling artists , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark . |
| 4 | These people were to be their ‘ lay ’ representatives , as , of course , the Panel Hearings are not Courts of Law , and lawyers as such have no role there . |
| 5 | The report of the committee enunciated that whereas tribunals were not courts of law , neither were they appendages of government departments . |
| 6 | Cos this , this is definitely not communism in any sense . |
| 7 | There is no attempt to zoom in on solo instruments , and indeed not signs of unwelcome engineering anywhere ; one is left with the most natural impression of a fine concert as heard from about Row S. |
| 8 | There is a clear consensus that the case for the public ownership and management by State corporations of whole industries was limited ; and , further , that the objective was not nationalisation for its own sake , but the need to bring economic enterprise under social control — whatever that means . |
| 9 | As I have said they are not cases of estoppel in the strict sense . |
| 10 | Perhaps I 'll do it by process of elimination ; find out what I 'm not bit by bit until I know who I am . ’ |
| 11 | Sometimes people today bewail the fact that they were not contemporaries of the historical Jesus , and imply that it would be much easier to believe and much more advantageous generally if they had been . |
| 12 | But there is not excuse for those who confuse ‘ England ’ ( nation ) with ‘ Britain ’ ( the multi-national state ) . |
| 13 | Soviet leaders were interested only in a kind of ‘ non-alignment ’ for Afghanistan comparable with that of the radical pro-Soviet members of the Non-Aligned Movement ; they did not hanker for Afghan neutralism of the pre-1973 variant . |
| 14 | Such phenomena are not manifestations of alien technology ; rather , they are phenomena that occur naturally here on Earth . |
| 15 | But supposing we had to make cuts all the same , supposing we just were forced into it , would you suggest that the best idea would be to close down one or two universities , not Sussex of course but one or two of the other universities ? |
| 16 | Struggling throughout his life with his own infirmity of will , and with a haunting sense that he was like some great tree possessing ‘ pith within the Trunk , not heart of Wood ’ , he was consistently drawn , for good and ill , to those possessing stronger personalities than his own . |
| 17 | The two men , forced by their fate into this intimacy that was not intimacy at all , sat in silence , the words used up . |
| 18 | In Lawson v Rolfe ( 1969 ) 46 TC 199 , it was held that stock dividends paid under a particular provision in the law of California were not income in the hands of a life tenant of an American will trust . |
| 19 | It was not income from the interest under the trust ( which would have been a foreign possession regardless of the underlying sources ) . |
| 20 | The only drawback that I can find is that if the participation is not 100pc across the population then you still need hard cash . |
| 21 | They are not reasons for the impulses but causes that hark back to the primitive responses that we share with many animals ; yet qualified by noting that we , unlike dumb brutes , can reflect upon our impulses and resist them if we so decide , as happened in my example . |
| 22 | Maybe the reader 's first thought an experiment of my own showed that this is not misinterpretation in any simple sense . |
| 23 | Contracts to sell the following are therefore not contracts for the sale of specific goods : ‘ a bottle of port from the seller 's stock ’ ; or , ‘ one of the seller 's current stock of 12 bottles of port ’ ; or , ‘ 12 of the seller 's stock of 13 bottles of port . ’ |
| 24 | There are certain other contracts which are not contracts of sale of goods but which are analogous contracts because the ownership of goods passes under them , e.g. contracts of exchange and barter and contracts for labour and materials supplied ( see Chapter 8 above ) . |
| 25 | The scope of that Article was to bind member States to treaties concluded by the organisation , not contracts under municipal law . |
| 26 | He is also uncertain about whether or not contracts in which he hopes to sell computers costing several thousand pounds need to be in writing . |
| 27 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
| 28 | ‘ He had the happy knack for a politician of making friends , not enemies of those who disagreed with him . |
| 29 | He had the happy knack for a politician of making friends , not enemies of those who disagreed with him . |
| 30 | Have not calls for action by organisations such as the Society for Black Lawyers been met by Government intransigence ? |