Example sentences of "[noun sg] and not [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , when you cut a punchcard at the bottom , cut into the card and not through the holes . |
| 2 | Bring newly bought house plants home on the floor of the car and not in the boot which can be much colder . |
| 3 | In his last public statement as Home Secretary , he announced : ‘ Once again the terrorists have tried to make their point through violence and not through the ballot box . ’ |
| 4 | She did n't realize it was in the blood and not on the skin ; she did n't see there could be nothing more suburban than suburbanites repudiating themselves . |
| 5 | Doubt is therefore tackled primarily at the point of action and not at the point of reflection . |
| 6 | In addition , Alexander Hardinge , who had replaced Wigram as private secretary to the King and who constantly saw his loyalty as lying with the institution and not with the person , was available to come over at short notice and did so . |
| 7 | It may , of course , happen that he deliberately holds himself out as a partner for his own private benefit and not in the course of his work or in the interests of the firm . |
| 8 | Second , the administration of the scheme will be much easier because , unlike the Community Charge , collection is based on the household and not on the individual . |
| 9 | Since the tendered bills were issued by NVOCC 's , and the NVOCC 's had issued the bills while placing the goods on the first means of conveyance and not on the ocean going vessel , banks either rejected such bills or required additional statements or notations attesting to actual loading on the ocean going vessel . |
| 10 | Hart et al administered dimethylhydrazine ( 20 mg/kg ) weekly for a total of 16 weeks ( 12 weeks after enterectomy ) and at sacrifice at 50 weeks , the increase in tumours was at the anastomosis and not in the colon . |
| 11 | If we accepted this entirely arbitrary target , the review would be seen merely as a cost-cutting exercise and not about the reform of social security . |
| 12 | They are the result of recall and not of the composition of components by the application of syntactic rules . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Now although we can differentiate the products er agricultural products , we can only do that at the very final stage in processing , by and large , where there 's much less scope after product differentiation right , at the er the raw material erm level , which is where most agricultural trade continues er , most trade in agricultural products is in the raw commodity , not the refined commodity the refining , there might be the processing and the manufacturing , tend to occur in the country of consumption and not in the country of production a number of complicated , erm political reasons erm alright , but the but because there is n't the scope for product differentiation alright , we have n't witnessed an increase in intra industry trade in agricultural goods whereas we have done for manufactured goods because there is scope for intra industry trade er yeah scope for product differentiation . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , it 's a good thing it happened at home and not at the racecourse . |
| 16 | And note 62/6/2 emphasises that ‘ the right of a mortgagee to his costs of a redemption or foreclosure suit is a matter of contract and not in the discretion of the court , except where he has ‘ unreasonably instituted or carried on or resisted any proceedings . ’ ’ |
| 17 | The later case of R. v. Felixstowe Justices , ex parte Leigh appears to have clarified this point , and the position now is that standing is related to the applicant 's interest in the case and not to the remedy sought . |
| 18 | Those who kill and are convicted of manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility are no less dangerous than those convicted of murder , and yet the judge has sentencing discretion in one case and not in the other . |
| 19 | And no one else can say of me that I know in one case and not in the other , because for all I know I am wrong both times . |
| 20 | Activity must be on your part and not on the part of the authors you are reading . |
| 21 | Most verbs which are used of situations where the object — talking strictly of the intensional level and not of the world referred to — does not change its properties ( between the narrow focus on the object phrase alone , and the wider view when it is construed with the verb and the adjective as in ( 22 ) ) will not be suitable ; if a property that might be expressed by an adjective could be present in the wider structural context , then its applicability will not normally be connected with the link between the verb and the noun phrase . |
| 22 | Notice now that the range is compatible only at the virtual computer level and not at the hardware level . |
| 23 | The shape of the resulting hole ( Fig. 1 ) reflects the shape of the ABO and not of the radula , which plays a comparatively minor role in the mechanical removal of shell fragments . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If — when — she returned , she might return to the cottage and not to the farm . |
| 26 | For example , and I 'm not saying this is , this is so , but it 's not unusual in that kind of dream if it 's recurring in the present , to find that really it 's about the present and not about the past . |
| 27 | He 's bothering daily about his soldiers in the field and not about the crosses in the school … |
| 28 | Check that your AF is focusing on the tiger and not on the bars of his cage ; if in doubt . |
| 29 | Spits differ chiefly from offshore bars in that they spring from the coast and are supplied with material mainly by longshore drift and not from the sea floor . |
| 30 | We disagree strongly with any calculation of dosage being based on plasma half life derived from the difference between only two observations , especially if the first of them is taken early in the distribution and not in the elimination phase . |