Example sentences of "[coord] not [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Do you think that they erm were an asset or or or not to the actual community when they ac I mean erm looking at how things were in prior to the flats being built and and
2 This distinction was roughly mirrored in a major division in Europe 's economic geography ( which was also , outside England , one between those directly affected or not by the French Revolution and the changes it brought ) .
3 As he said ( and not for the first time ) , you ca n't beat a bit of local knowledge .
4 That let off seemed to breathe relief back into the home side , and not for the first time this season the imposing physical presence of youngster Ferguson proved crucial with a deft header which set up Cleland for a fine angled finish from 15 yards for the leveller .
5 As the throng of workers laughed and joked , tucking into the vast amount of food laid out before them , Annie 's mind went back to other Mell Suppers and not for the first time , she reflected on how her family had dwindled .
6 The whole episode was built around the book and before very long , and not for the first time , the fascist implications were there again , not only as far as Alf was concerned but , by implication , involving me too .
7 Her voice dropped , turning low and vicious , and not for the first time , Michael Lee realized how cold and calculating , how vicious and cunning she was .
8 The sun beat into the sedan , and not for the first time I questioned the desirability of our climate as applied to automobile drivers .
9 She smiled warmly , and not for the first time the girl thought how incredibly lovely her mistress was .
10 Not surprisingly and not for the first time , trade union leaders wondered whether it had become impossible to mount a legal strike .
11 He strolled down the road , thinking , and not for the first time , what a remarkably quiet and empty road Church Row was .
12 I wo n't accept the job because of Tom Russell , she thought feverishly , and not for the first time .
13 This time , and not for the first time , it was to be Jenna .
14 No need to ask who 's been on the piss all weekend , and not for the first time .
15 However , and not for the first time in this chronicle , I am wrong .
16 Again his gaze was intent , and not for the first time Robbie cursed the need for evasion , the maintenance of her fiction concerning Hugh .
17 Fen suggested , and not for the first time Robbie wished she could clear up this misapprehension .
18 She put her fingers to the top of his brow and traced a three inch scar downwards to the back of his ear , thinking as she did so , and not for the first time , that he had nearly paid dearly for his happiness .
19 … the obligation [ entails ] two principal elements ; first , the existence of a relationship giving access , directly or indirectly , to information intended to be available only for a corporate purpose and not for the personal benefit of anyone , and second , the inherent , unfairness involved where a party takes advantage of such information knowing it is unavailable to those with whom he is dealing .
20 My hon. Friend makes the point : it is his local authority 's duty to comply with the 1968 Act and not for the chief constable to bend section 39 of the 1986 Act .
21 Ironically , and not for the last time in history , the Communist-inspired proletariat had more clout outside the Soviet borders than within .
22 Both were convicted and sentenced to hang , ironically for a mass of mundane crimes , and not for the Royal Mail robbery that had made them so famous .
23 Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved .
24 ‘ The burden of the evidence rests on the other side to disprove whatever it is , and not on the other side to disprove the other side 's evidence .
25 In my judgment there can be no doubt that , if Parliamentary privilege does not prohibit references to Hansard , the Parliamentary history shows that Parliament passed the legislation on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 of the Act was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concessionary education for teachers ' children , on the marginal cost to the employer and not on the average cost .
26 Like Egon Zehnder , fees are charged on the basis of time and difficulty of each assignment , and not on the successful candidate 's salary ; a minimum fee of £20000 is quoted .
27 The reason this one survived is because it travelled on the tour bus and not on the chartered plane , which crashed after take-off from Mason City airport in Iowa , while taking Holly , the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens to a gig in Moorhead , Minnesota .
28 We have used here a mathematical theorem stating that the line integral of a gradient depends only on the end-points and not on the connecting path .
29 If you use only part of your agreed overdraft , you will pay interest only on the sum you have actually borrowed and not on the full amount agreed .
30 Always make sure canister filters are sited below the aquarium and not on the same level or above .
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