Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other expressions in the contract ( such as ‘ fair average quality for the season ’ or ‘ packed in cases of 30 ’ ) can then be regarded , not as part of the contract description , but as express terms of the contract in their own right . |
| 2 | It is submitted that this approach is wrong and that it would be better to consider the database structure as a form of expression in its own right and not as part of the computer program . |
| 3 | The Labour leader knows and the rest of the party knows that there could be an election next year , in which case when Labour meets for it 's conference in autumn ninety-one , Mr Kinnock could be addressing them , not as leader of the opposition , but as Prime Minister . |
| 4 | It would avoid , on the one hand , the use of the prerogative of choice in appointing C as Prime Minister ( not as Leader of the Party but as the Leader of the majority of the PLP ) and , on the other , an automatic use of prerogative of appointment to install B ( as Leader of the Party ) , knowing that he had no Commons majority . |
| 5 | This demo 's not for sale at the moment but there 's a chance to see the band at the Wheatsheaf , Farnham , on Wednesday night . |
| 6 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 7 | This back-dating of the appointment was not of significance at the time but it is an early example of how masters in Stockport could come and go without the immediate supervision of the Company . |
| 8 | After four months Alderman Joshua Smith , president of Southwark Borough Council , secured her release from prison — but not of course from the rest of her debts . |
| 9 | But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband . |
| 10 | They are not of value in the description of mature ability , nor in the description of the demands of writing for specific purposes . |
| 11 | Naturally many of these creatures are not of interest to the home fishkeeper , but even so , the scope is still pretty formidable with representatives from all the major invertebrate groups available for the aquarium . |
| 12 | The third group of parts covers several matters of importance to the insolvency practitioner , but not of interest to the businessman . |
| 13 | The attractions of the CA methodology in the study of code switching can be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) The CA approach avoids premature theorising about what is or is not of interest to the analyst . |
| 14 | Exports in convertible currencies — not including trade with the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( COMECON ) — rose by approximately 4 per cent , with a resulting trade deficit of $763,000,000 in 1989 , compared with $350,000,000 in 1988 . |
| 15 | He was not under suspicion at the time , although he was about to be dismissed for his indiscretions and outrageous behaviour . |
| 16 | Or , at least , not with work in the sense of going to an office or a factory . |
| 17 | In Egypt and the Near East relief-sculpture ( mostly in very flat low relief ) goes in this respect with drawing and not with sculpture in the round . |
| 18 | President Clinton 's plans to bolster US industry — particularly the high tech sector , begin to look disturbingly corporatist , and the chief executive of the Baby Bells ' Bell Communications Research , George Heilmeier , seems to feel the same way : he told Reuter that the government should certainly spur industry to construct a national information highway but it should not build it itself : ‘ I do n't think the public sector should operate or control networks that are commercial , ’ he said , ‘ I am not in favour of the government building the national information infrastructure . ’ |
| 19 | She was not in favour of the work which he so loved , yet he always treated her with affection . |
| 20 | The majority of the psychiatric profession 's members were not in favour of the reform . |
| 21 | In the third place peasant correspondents in particular looked as if they would be a useful source of information for the central authorities on dissatisfaction in the countryside and on the rising influence of peasant types not in favour with the party . |
| 22 | In Laverty [ 1970 ] 3 All ER 432 ( CA ) the reason why the victim bought a stolen car was because he thought the accused was authorised to sell it , not in reliance on the fact that it did not have its original number-plates . |
| 23 | As trespass is an interference with possession , it follows that if the plaintiff were not in possession at the date of the alleged meddling , he can not sue for trespass . |
| 24 | Where , however , the plaintiff was not in possession at the time of the conversion but relied on his right to possession jus tertii could be pleaded by the defendant . |
| 25 | The law-makers , roundly condemned by Brian Moore , England 's hooker , on the nonsensical grounds that they have not played for 40 years , have decided that when a maul — ball in hand — grinds to a halt , or the ball becomes unplayable , the team not in possession at the start of the maul should put the ball into an ensuing scrum . |
| 26 | ‘ In a maul when the ball becomes unplayable or the maul stationary , the team not in possession at the start will put the ball into the ensuing scrummage . |
| 27 | The law now gives the scrummage to the team that was not in possession of the ball at the start of the ruck or maul . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions , except in the following cases , that is to say — ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land . |
| 29 | ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or |
| 30 | A person who picks mushrooms growing wild on any land , or who picks flowers , fruit or foliage from a plant growing wild on any land , does not ( although not in possession of the land ) , steal what he picks , unless he does it for reward or for sale or other commercial purpose . |