Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this view you can reach for security through self-help — individual action , or action in small groups of like-minded people — but not through reliance on big bureaucracies . |
| 2 | This is not for want of official concern by education commissions , curriculum projects and national ministries . |
| 3 | It may now be said , however , that a self-conscious conventionalist would indeed ponder over past doctrine in the way actual judges do , not for evidence of popular opinion but more directly , because any lawmaker must take care to make new law consistent with old . |
| 4 | This was not for lack of punitive methods . |
| 5 | ‘ Hirst is not for sale at any price but they just do n't seem to want to accept that . |
| 6 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 7 | She saw her role as purely an incubatory one , and will now return to her own work as a biologist — although not of course on this project — having made her most valuable contribution to my work . |
| 8 | ‘ What a strange demand ! ’ says Lebyadkin with an effrontery beyond the man we have been given , though not of course beyond old Karamazov . |
| 9 | Sentences that contain such expressions , and whose truth values therefore depend on certain facts about the context of utterance ( identity of speakers , addressees , indicated objects , places and times , etc. ) , are not of course in any way special or peculiar . |
| 10 | BSL is not under threat in this sense . |
| 11 | ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side . |
| 12 | She suggests that the ‘ subjective , intuitive , emotional ’ ( 1986 : 29 ) methods they defend are rejected by psychology because they are associated , not with lack of scientific rigour , but with femininity . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm glad I did n't because , in the three instances I can think of , I 'm not in love with that person any more . |
| 14 | The law , however , has never allowed a corporation to sue in respect of injury to its feelings on the basis that the injury might be suffered by its agents : as Lord Reid said in Lewis v. Daily Telegraph Ltd. [ 1964 ] A.C. 234 , 262 : ‘ A company can not be injured in its feelings , ’ and he added , ‘ it can only be injured in its pocket ’ but pecuniary damage to a corporation 's reputation was not in issue in that case . |
| 15 | However , the question whether , apart from the undertaking , the association had a right to make representations was not in issue in that case . |
| 16 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 17 | Questions about their politics elicited answers which were , generally , conservative and not in favour of progressive ideas . |
| 18 | It is of interest in this connection to note that Lord Scarman , who was not in favour of similar provisions in his report on the Red Lion Square disturbances in 1978 , expressed a different view following the Brixton disorders in 1981 , when he included recommendations in his report that the Public Order Act of 1936 should be amended to include ‘ a requirement of advance notice of a procession to the police ’ . |
| 19 | R. A. Hamilton was not in favour of such trees and the chairman agreed to write accordingly . |
| 20 | R.A. Hamilton was not in favour of such trees and the chairman agreed to write accordingly . |
| 21 | Miss Mason , the Assistant Inspector responsible for children boarded out under the auspices of the Poor Law during the late 1880s , was not in favour of working class women sitting on local , voluntary boarding-out committees because they would not be able to pass comment on the homes of their social equals . |
| 22 | But were the Liberal Democrats not in favour of higher taxation — with their famous penny on basic rate income tax to pay for more education spending , and a new top rate of tax set at 50 per cent ? |
| 23 | But we are not in favour of any policy that squeezes trade unionists out of the Party or of any policy that denies trade unionists a voice in Labour Party democracy . |
| 24 | Personally , I am not in favour of mammoth jail sentences except for the deserving few — and that 's not so much a matter of punishment as a means of keeping society free from their future depredations . |
| 25 | By the 1880s Blue Books almost always originated from the government and not in response to parliamentary demands . |
| 26 | It was thus a political decision in the strictest sense , but it was taken , not in response to any kind of popular pressure , but in response to a narrowly but powerfully based pressure-group campaign in which those who stood to gain most from it financially , such as the makers of television sets , played a prominent role . |
| 27 | And , while I was not in possession of definite proof , my money was on it coming from somewhere a little further away than the Fulham Palace Road . |
| 28 | The fact that Henry was not in possession of those areas in 1259 did not mean that he or his successors might not actively revive their claims . |
| 29 | In September Cheney announced that the increased use of US military personnel in combating drugs in Latin America would be for training and advising , but not in participation in anti-drugs operations . |
| 30 | He certainly holds that as long as my action is prompted by mere feeling , or by a judgement as to what will best satisfy my desires , I am not in sight of moral living . |