Example sentences of "not [art] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not the thought of a fall that worried her . |
| 2 | Such matters were not the concern of a Khan . |
| 3 | Yes , he was a professor — an associate , not the holder of a chair , and did teach , but preferred to be referred to as Dr. Briant rather than professor . |
| 4 | Thus H-YRDN ( which is translated throughout the Bible as Jordan ) is not the name of a river but means the ‘ Ridge ’ and refers to a huge escarpment which dominates Asir and explains , says Salibi , why the Old Testament nowhere makes reference to the Jordan as a river . |
| 5 | ( The subsidiary element is the idea that since ‘ pain' is evidently not the name of a material object it must be the name of an aethereal one , a personal experience . ) |
| 6 | But if we ( rightly ) say that God has to be unchangeable we do not mean he is static any more than if we say ‘ The Equator ’ is not the name of a poison we mean that it is safe to eat it . |
| 7 | Sure , the DNA was perhaps a little preoccupied with carrying the genetic memory , but could not the memories of a lifetime be readily encoded in the myriad of potential unique protein sequences ? |
| 8 | Does not the concept of a citizen imply the existence of a society ? |
| 9 | In the event , the more fateful decision was not the proposal of a route within the walled city but making the starting point for the march the railway station on the Protestant Waterside . |
| 10 | But why not the hall for a change ? |
| 11 | Butter , eggs , refrigerated goods trains are all desirable things to have , but they are not the test of an economy in Soviet eyes . |
| 12 | In Nakkuda Ali one of the reasons why the Privy Council denied the application of natural justice was because the cancellation of a licence was characterised as the withdrawal of a privilege and not the determination of a right , and in ex p . |
| 13 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 14 | But the counter-argument still held good : that it was the operational control and not the manufacture of a weapon system that made it independent . |
| 15 | Might not the mastery of a skill quickly mean that an approach to learning through discovery could be more effectively undertaken ? |
| 16 | Erm , er he might be doing a very good job of explaining some other notion , not the notion of a self or an individual , but er something else . |
| 17 | When Philip in 346 settled the Third Sacred War , he was ( personally ; not the Macedonians as a race ) admitted to the Delphic Amphictyony , the body which managed the prestige sanctuary at Delphi ; and so he gained admission to the Greek fraternity . |
| 18 | yeah , it 's not the wording of a company cos companies ca n't write , it 's only human beings that can write , which human being is responsible for this wording ? |
| 19 | Whether or not the subject of a mosaic was chosen by the client , the mosaicist had to rely on a number of aids and methodical practices when organising his work . |
| 20 | MANCHESTER High School for Girls , an independent institution , was not the subject of a photograph on page 3 of yesterday 's Guardian which showed buckets being used to collect water from a leaking roof . |
| 21 | Information acquired by an employee which becomes part of his general skills and stock of knowledge is not the subject of an obligation of confidentiality although during the term of the employment it may be a breach of the employee 's duty of good faith to disclose it to third parties . |
| 22 | I looked to Mrs for guidance ; she looked amused , so I surmised it was not the inception of a punishment for my earlier and inconvenient frankness . |
| 23 | However , if the Transfer Regulations do not apply and it is not the transfer of a business as a going concern , the position is governed by the common law . |
| 24 | In common with most of the population , the word ‘ soccer ’ has connotations of Americanism or cheap commercialism , not the dialect of a person who appears to epitomise your typical working-class northerner . |
| 25 | A constitution is not the act of a government , but of a people constituting a government , and a government without a constitution is power without right … |
| 26 | It is not the function of a judge to use his own expertise in a given area outside the law and the administration of justice . |
| 27 | It is not the function of a trial judge , as the Court of Appeal stated in Alsford v British Telecommunications PLC 30 October , 1986 . |
| 28 | But joint Charlton manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ Nobody begrudged Robert his move — and that was not the case with a couple of players when they left . ’ |
| 29 | However , the appointment of a receiver must not be equated with that of a liquidator : ( i ) where a receiver is appointed the company need not go into liquidation and if it does the same person who acted as receiver will normally not be appointed liquidator ; ( ii ) liquidation is a class action designed to protect the interests of the unsecured creditors whereas , as we shall see , receivership is designed to protect the interests of the security holders who appointed the receiver and it is for this reason that a receiver can be appointed even where the company is in liquidation ; ( iii ) liquidation terminates the trading power of the company whereas this is not the case with receivership ; ( iv ) a liquidator has power to disclaim onerous property , something not possible in the case of receivership ; ( v ) a liquidator in a compulsory winding up is an officer of the court whereas this is not the case with a receiver unless appointed by the court ; ( vi ) lastly , it is easier to obtain recognition of liquidation as opposed to receivership in proceedings in foreign courts . |
| 30 | This is not the case at a rehearsal where the players are dressed casually , people come and go , some members of the orchestra are talking to one another , while others are sitting drinking coffee , tea ( or perhaps even soup ) . |