Example sentences of "[coord] [not/n't] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some would take up for ever more space than they were entitled to — like my mother 's wedding dress , shrouded in sheet linen , suspended in time , uncrushed by the other more workaday but less significant garments that crowded together as though they were cold , waiting in a queue , inmates of a zenana to be taken up or not at the Pasha 's pleasure , promiscuously gathered , at the mercy of their owner . |
| 2 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 3 | It was n't fair that a king should give up his throne for her , and not for the weaver 's daughter . |
| 4 | I have a rule that once I consider a portrait is finished , I will never make alterations ; after all , as the painter , you are painting a portrait for yourself and not for the sitter 's wife . ’ |
| 5 | There were electric rings in most of the studies , and the official meals were somewhat Spartan and not to every boy 's taste . |
| 6 | Wright , Swinfen Eady J held that directors owed their fiduciary duties to the company and not to the company 's shareholders and thereby denied shareholders recourse to a direct action against directors who had used inside information at their ( the shareholders ' ) expense . |
| 7 | Wright , that directors owe their fiduciary duties to the company and not to the company 's shareholders , has been widely criticised . |
| 8 | The audit is essentially aimed at identifying and rectifying procedural flaws , and not at the individual 's performance , although realistically this may feature when considering efficiency aspects at a later stage . |
| 9 | Years later , when they told this story , those who had conceived the plan insisted that they would have carried out the attack in their own names , as rebels , and not under the Shah 's authority . |
| 10 | Among its many other duties , the immune system has the responsibility of keeping gut microbes where they belong — only in the gut and not in the body 's tissues . |
| 11 | But from the peace of your Munro , all such regrets at its passing as a place of tranquillity vanish and it unveils its wilder delights at the east to those who come by foot and not by a knob-head 's speed boat . |
| 12 | Note that when you are acting for a seller of registered land ( unlike unregistered ) , the plan attached to the transfer must be signed by the seller alone , and not by the seller 's agent — not even by the seller 's conveyancer as you can for a buyer . |
| 13 | Recession bites hard — but NOT into the dog 's dinner |
| 14 | FASTER , quieter aircraft may be good for people — but not for the world 's natural fliers . |
| 15 | Transfection of the cf/cf mice with pREP8-CFTR , but not with the vector pREP8 , significantly increased sodium absorption ( seven- to eightfold ; P0.05 ) , to essentially wild-type ( +/+ ) levels ( Fig. 4B ) . |
| 16 | By far the largest segment of sociological literature concerning women is focused on their roles as wives , mothers and housewives — but not on the housewife 's role as houseworker . |
| 17 | n the absence of the initiating NTPs , open complexes were detectable at the P A3 promoter , but not at the P A2b promoter ( Figure 4 ) . |
| 18 | The primary tumour had allele loss on the long arm of chromosome 5 ( probe : Lambda MS8 , 5q35-qter ) and the short arm of chromosome 17 shown by the probe p144-D6 ( 17p13 ) but not by the probe pYNZ22 ( 17p13 ) , while the recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma had allele losses on chromosome 12 shown by Lambda 43 ( 12q24.3-qter ) and chromosome 17 shown by both p144/D6 and pYNZ22 , but no allele loss on chromosome 5 ( Table I , Fig 2a-c ) . |
| 19 | Serotonin accelerated transit of liquid across the ICJ , but not in the colon in vivo . |
| 20 | Caveat emptor may operate in the market place but not in the solicitor 's office . |