Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] not [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be borne in mind that not every dead-end of a burrow terminates in a long , narrow hole . |
| 2 | Rendering a service connotes some positive action on the part of the renderer and not a state of passivity . |
| 3 | Anyway , her cancer as such was not actively discussed , so only her loss and not the cause of her loss was ever aired . |
| 4 | But it is doubtful whether they would have had any opportunity even to attempt that massive task if the years of the War had not profoundly changed public attitudes , and even softened the mind if not the heart of that great enemy of education and old boy of Harrow , Winston Churchill . |
| 5 | Histological examination of the oesophageal mucosa was only used to establish the presence of Barrett 's oesophagus and not the diagnosis of oesophagitis . |
| 6 | It all sounds effortless , but this is the effect if not the reality of Charlie Parker , alto saxophonist . |
| 7 | These reflections lead us to an alternative view of pressure group power in Britain : that the strongest weapons are forms of direct action and not the manipulation of electoral choice . |
| 8 | She had caught the atmosphere of tension but not the substance of the conversation . |
| 9 | When children imagine that they have been adopted , the fantasy always involves some romantic idea like being a princess and not the daughter of the local estate agent or whatever the truth may be ! |
| 10 | It is one of the components of the work and not a referent of it ( literature has no referents ) . |
| 11 | A good example is provided by his comment on the way in which the first editor of the journal Nature allowed his personal opinions to intrude upon its pages : ‘ [ Norman ] Lockyer sometimes forgets that he is only the editor and not the author of Nature . ’ |
| 12 | What we spoke of would be a part of , an inhabitant of , the changing inter-acting universe and not the source of all meaning and being . |
| 13 | Exceptions to the rule clearly exist , however , and Fearon has emphasised that it is the accumulation and not the order of these changes which is important . |
| 14 | To interpret exceptions to the general rule that sexual dimorphism increases with the degree of polygyny , we need to remember that it is the comparative effects of phenotypic traits on reproductive success in males and females that will determine the degree of dimorphism and not the amount of variation in reproductive success per se ( see Price , 1970 ; Lande , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | However , the measure is of the number of organisms in aerosol at the time of testing and not the dose of organism to which the patient was actually exposed . |
| 16 | It has been argued , for example , that laterality should be measured only on a nominal scale ( Colbourn , 1978 ) such that only the direction and not the magnitude of any laterality effect is taken into account . |
| 17 | If you do not recognize that the question is implying that something has been selected , you will only answer a part and not the whole of it . |
| 18 | In Nakkuda Ali one of the reasons why the Privy Council denied the application of natural justice was because the cancellation of a licence was characterised as the withdrawal of a privilege and not the determination of a right , and in ex p . |
| 19 | In their Lordship 's judgment , the Guinness Articles permitted only the Board and not a committee of the Board to make the award of a fee to Mr Ward . |
| 20 | It does appear however , the application made to us , is exclusively local authority support and not a part of an overall support that includes the commission for racial equality . |
| 21 | Section 663 provides that where there is a settlement , and during the life of the settlor any income is paid to or for the benefit of a child of the settlor in any year of assessment , the income shall , if at the time of payment the child is unmarried and below the age of 18 , be treated as the settlor 's income and not the income of any other person . |
| 22 | For many years , policy-makers have referred to the need to ‘ overcome the division of Europe ’ , as if the primary wrong were the division and not the domination of the East by Soviet Communism ; as if the Americans were as much a part of the problem as the Russians , rather than its solution . |
| 23 | When someone says ‘ We went to a bar and ordered a drink ’ , plain men and parsing specialists all agree that the sense of ‘ bar ’ in question is a drinking place and not a rod of iron . |
| 24 | Lord Rees-Mogg said : ‘ People complained because of the scheduling and not the content of the scene . |
| 25 | Teachers should recognise that reading is a complex but unitary process and not a set of discrete skills which can be taught separately in turn and , ultimately , bolted together . |
| 26 | The rather dubious sources for these two modes of production explains the fact that the German and the Slavonic ( if there is one ) are characterized by a name demoting an ethnic or linguistic group and not a relation of production , as it the case for the capitalist mode of production . |
| 27 | Even if neither we nor they were quite clued up enough to realise that Jethro Tull was a group and not the inventor of the seed drill ! |
| 28 | But that poor customer , John — I am sorry to keep going back to you on it , I 'm just seeking clarification — that poor customer has got to prove to your satisfaction that it 's a mechanical breakdown and not a result of what they 've done to it or somebody 's , at any time , negligence in assembly . |
| 29 | The next thing er which again er is er a detail of something which is already approved and it is merely than in our conditions of service during our discussions with the city er personnel department we noted , or they noted as it had arisen that we indicated the route to erm sick pay over a certain period and before a certain period but not the detail of how you got there . |
| 30 | Herzberg , Mausner and Snyderman observe in their study of The Motivation to Work that the provision of better working conditions has the effect of reducing dissatisfaction but not the effect of producing satisfaction . |