Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The choice of research tactics follows not from research doctrine , but from decisions in each case as to the best available techniques : the problem defines the methods used , not vice versa . |
| 2 | Workers at the Washwood Heath factory voted not to stage industrial action by 761 to 615 in a secret ballot . |
| 3 | Workers at the Washwood Heath factory voted not to stage industrial action by 761 to 615 in a secret ballot . |
| 4 | Probably its builders do n't comprehend it fully either : engine specialists do n't in detail understand wings , and wing specialists understand engines only vaguely . |
| 5 | Both assumptions have been questioned and much evidence adduced to show that group politics does not in fact work in this way . |
| 6 | At Monklands East , John Smith 's Edinburgh constituency , the shadow chancellor has been re-elected , but everything about his body language speaks not of jubilation but an understated sense of acceptance . |
| 7 | A welcoming party of six walked down to the shore as the boating party disembarked not without difficulty ; Johnson , after his six or seven hours on the Atlantic , found the rocks ‘ irregularly broken , and a false step would have been very mischievous ’ . |
| 8 | Unfortunately confidence in this practice was somewhat sapped when the House of Lords decided that , if the officer of the company who certified the transfer did so fraudulently and for his own purposes when sufficient share certificates had not in fact been lodged , the company was not liable . |
| 9 | We are fortunate in that the rabbit population has not to date found us , although in 1983 we had to provide rabbit guards to comply with grant conditions , which were hideous white twists of plastic . |
| 10 | Provost John Cunningham admitted that Main had not possessed a commission as watchman and was indeed an extraordinary officer employed only when there was work for him to perform , but there seems little reason to doubt that Main 's removal was intended to serve the political interest of the Haldanes , for his removal was not an isolated case , and , moreover , when the Hamilton salt works resumed operations the excise supervisors did not in fact restore Main to his old post , but appointed an individual named Curinan to the vacancy . |
| 11 | However , Local Authorities do not at present have delegated powers under Regulation A13 to grant relaxations on fire safety matters for buildings which exceed 7,000 m3 and any such application is forwarded to the Secretary of State for a decision . |
| 12 | The murderous instincts of the sex war lead not to union but to a fragmentation which destroys the ability to comprehend life on any normal level , |
| 13 | It was argued that ERDF resources did not in fact represent truly additional aid for problem regions if such aid merely replaced expenditure that national governments would otherwise have incurred themselves . |
| 14 | As emphasized in Section 17.4 , linear stability theory does not in principle predict the type of motion that eventually occurs as a result of this growth — non-linear processes must always come into play before that stage . |
| 15 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 16 | This the High Court form of committal order does not in fact do . |
| 17 | Limiting carbon dioxide emissions depended not on regulation but on the aggregate decisions of millions of individuals remote from government , John Wakeham , the British Energy Secretary , told the World Energy Conference in Montreal in September 1989 . |
| 18 | Sea shells enlarge not by growth or magnification in all directions simultaneously , but by the accumulation or accretion of material on the unbounded end of the spiral structure . |
| 19 | Also many teachers of English succumbed to a kind of vitalism , a muddled belief that children 's acquisition of language skills depends not on craft and knowledge , but upon a living , spontaneous response to their reading and to their own experiences . |
| 20 | The real danger to the mountain vegetation comes not from cycle wheels but from acid rain and global warming . |