Example sentences of "not [art] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not the purpose of the meetings to produce or agree upon policy proposals ; nor was there any attempt to do so . |
| 2 | Legal rules are not the whole of the instructions — departmental policy guidelines , for example , play a large part — but legal rules are of considerable importance because they are binding and authoritative . |
| 3 | This is not the call of the entertainers or the edutainers . |
| 4 | The answer to that is that the consideration is not the rendering of the services , as is plain from the fact that the document is to take effect in Equity from the date . |
| 5 | " Conversations with a Gorilla " is not the title of a children 's fairy-tale but of a supposedly scientific contribution to the National Geographic Magazine . |
| 6 | Fourthly , the grounds for the ban were not the content of the newspapers but the actions of the proprietors of News International on another issue . |
| 7 | The drawings ( c. 1918 ) , showing gunners loading shells and tunnel patriots , are succinct , almost balletic , with the fellow-feeling but not the horror of the poems , though a fine , nervously sketchy drawing , Figures Helping a Wounded Soldier ( c. 1916–17 ) , evokes war 's ineffable pity . |
| 8 | The drawings ( c. 1918 ) , showing gunners loading shells and tunnel patriots , are succinct , almost balletic , with the fellow-feeling but not the horror of the poems , though a fine , nervously sketchy drawing , Figures Helping a Wounded Soldier ( c. 1916–17 ) , evokes war 's ineffable pity . |
| 9 | I would remind you that contrary to the comments made in your letter , I am not the chairman of the judges , simply the chairman of the committee that has the responsibility of organising the event that surrounds the judging and MC ( unpaid ) for the awards dinner . |
| 10 | This was not the Rome of the emperors , but a little one-round-the-corner . |
| 11 | He 's not the King of the Jews , put it up , he said he was the King of the Jews . |
| 12 | It is the culture-ideology of consumerism , not the nationality of the lords and stewards of the global village , that is at issue . |
| 13 | The complete tree ( but not the directions of the arrows ) can be generated from the function P as can P from the tree . |
| 14 | Its widespread influence in architecture has linked it with a joyless form of economic and technological functionalism that was not the intent of the originators . |
| 15 | This is not the fate of the Palestinians , but avoiding another Arab-Israeli war . |
| 16 | As former president Mike Lickiss said , ‘ the mood of the 1990s is not the mood of the times our rules were written ’ . |
| 17 | This way of conceiving permission obviously makes the permitting inseparable from the realization of the action permitted , which is not the case with the verbs allow and permit . |
| 18 | Naturally the male 's reproductive success rises with the number of females on his territory : but this is not the case for the females themselves . |
| 19 | This is not the way to the ladies room in the Kingshouse Hotel . |
| 20 | This is not the way to the ladies room in the Kingshouse Hotel either . |
| 21 | Dr James was unrepentant last night , saying that any distress comes from the threat to the service and not the decision by the doctors to inform patients about it . |
| 22 | By ‘ working class ’ he means the variety that keeps a tidy front garden and teaches its children impeccable manners , not the type with no curtains and eight , moulting dogs . |
| 23 | Thus if the air-hostess announces ( 50 ) You are to fasten your seat-belts now she is the speaker or spokesman , but not the source of the instructions , and this seems to be encoded in the use of the infinitive form . |
| 24 | This was not the opinion of the archaeologists who attacked Watkins ' ideas following publication of The Old Straight Track in 1925 . |
| 25 | If a policeman encounters a person using threatening language against another , he must make a judgment as to whether or not the addressee of the threats is likely to believe that the threats will be implemented . |
| 26 | But these were not the lads from the left-overs . |
| 27 | But that is certainly not the view of the Argentinians , or the Spanish . |
| 28 | This , however , was not the basis of the negotiations on which Britain was granted its special deal . |
| 29 | The formal rules and regimen are not the bases for the ways in which ordinary policemen perform their tasks , for very few rankers follow even a proportion of the management 's rules of conduct ( for example see Bittner 1967 ; Cain 1973 ; Chatterton 1976 , 1979 ; Eticson 1982 ; Holdaway 1980 , 1983 ; Manning 1977 , 1979 ; Punch 1979a ; Rubinstein 1973 ; Wilson 1968 ) . |
| 30 | The rationale behind this decision may be to make it abundantly clear that the child is not the product of the adopters ' relationship with each other or with anyone else . |