Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [not/n't] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In a sense it does n't matter if Callinicos ' defence of Marxism is registered or not by the legion of Post-isms and -ists which form the undergrowth of contemporary cultural politics .
2 but you 're saying in , in , in short , are you , that erm , that in the present instance erm the obligation was put on the United Kingdom government which has sort , it may have succeeded or not as the case maybe , discharge the obligation by in effect erm subject to the subsidiary provisions which you 've both make reference and leaving it to er regulate these matters
3 There was n't much ; a few drawings of birds , quite well done but not of the calibre of the great da Vinci 's notebook .
4 Quite clearly it was for me to initiate action to ensure that all aircraft of that type were checked for similar fractures at the earliest possible moment , but the responsibility for ordering such an inspection lies with the airworthiness authorities of the States in which the aircraft were registered and not with the accident investigation authorities .
5 The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed .
6 Criminal laws against corporate behaviour again facilitate crime because they focus purely on the regulation broken and not on the consequences of that broken regulation .
7 That being so , a situation could arise where there was evidence to establish concert in the case of one accused but not in the case of the other .
8 It was firmly stated that where review was based upon breach of natural justice , the court should only be concerned with the manner in which the decision was reached and not with the correctness of the decision itself .
9 ( d ) It is the overprovision of the specific facilities of the kind to be provided and not of the types of licence with which this ground is concerned .
10 A word of advice to women of child-bearing age is to begin the diet just after your period has arrived and not in the week your period is due .
11 The jurors only had to consider whether the woman had consented or not to the intercourse taking place .
12 Payment under benefit ( c ) shall be payable only on certification by a medical referee of permanent total disablement as defined and not before the expiry of 104 weeks consecutive disablement .
13 Now it might be objected that I am talking here about language knowledge and not communicative behaviour , about how grammar might be learned and not about the development of a language using ability .
14 I conclude that looking at the matter from the point of view of expense incurred and not from the point of view of loss to the employer no expense could be regarded as having been incurred as a result of the decision of the authorities of the college to provide this particular benefit to the taxpayer .
15 The slate is still worked but not on the scale of former times , Welsh slate having monopolized the roofing market in the Victorian age .
16 ‘ If a ditch is dug but not on the highway warning signs should be posted . ’
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