Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun] of [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ fatal ’ choices offered to parents and teachers at every stage of the child 's schooling can thus be examined in the light of development , not as part of a race against failure .
2 Industrial battles of this sort were almost an everyday event in Griffith 's America but here the bloody scenes are staged not as part of a labour or management film but as part of a vast , elaborate , confused , perhaps ultimately nonsensical and certainly eccentric plea for tolerance .
3 Note that where assets are acquired not as part of a TOGC and VAT is payable , the VAT liability may be treated as capital expenditure for the purpose of writing down allowances for plant and machinery .
4 The Company sold guns to the Indians , but not as part of a process of political disturbance like that caused by the slave trade in West Africa ; Indian hunters quite soon preferred guns to bows and arrows for hunting , and hunting was the basis for the Hudson Bay trade .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 But the conversation between Kelly Connor and Nick Morley was not of matters of the heart , but of life , death and horses .
10 We 're not in favour of a right to roam on open country — if you have this it 'll override other rights .
11 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 . ’
12 She was not in favour of the work which he so loved , yet he always treated her with affection .
13 The majority of the psychiatric profession 's members were not in favour of the reform .
14 If the passenger is not in possession of a licence , but states he is the holder of the necessary licence , further enquiries will be made by the police officer to ascertain whether or not he is a duly licensed driver .
15 Where a seller was not in possession of a licence which could be transferred to the buyer at the date of completion of the contract it was decided that , the seller having failed to execute the contract , the purchaser could repudiate it : Day v. Luhke ( 1868 ) L.R. 5 Eq .
16 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 .
17 ( 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 .
18 ( 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
19 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 .
20 The dealer was in possession of the car with consent and in his capacity as a mercantile agent , since the possession was with a view to an eventual sale , but he was not in possession of the registration document with the consent of the owner .
21 They were in the hands of vested interests , not in possession of the facts , ’ said Mr Roberts .
22 Although there are conflicting dicta it seems that an owner who is not in occupation of the land at the time when the thing escapes is liable if he has authorised the accumulation , and that anyone who collects the dangerous thing and has control of it at the time of the escape would be liable , perhaps even when he is carrying it along the highway and it escapes therefrom .
23 Bordeaux is traditionally the arena for a thrilling mass sprint finish and on the long straight ride through the flatlands of Les Landes we may have the awesome sight of the whole peloton at full speed , driving along at up to 60 kilometres per hour , not in pursuit of a breakaway , but in anticipation of the finish .
24 While rejecting the mechanistic connection of Quinney and Jankovic , one can argue that in times of economic crisis , typified by rising levels of unemployment , imprisonment does serve an important social control function as a constant reminder to those not in work of the consequences of stepping out of line .
25 The supplementary allowance A weekly allowance that can be made to those in financial need who are not in receipt of a State retirement pension ( see leaflet SB1 ) .
26 While most students not in receipt of a job offer were making applications and attending interviews at the time they completed the Initial destinations questionnaires , the fact that one third of students would be looking for employment at the end of the courses can only be regarded as a disappointing , and rather unexpected , finding .
27 Any member not in receipt of a ballot paper for the election to the vacancy on the Women Chemists Committee , and who wishes to place a vote , can obtain one from M. Mackenzie , RSC , Thomas Graham House , Science Park , Milton Road , Cambridge CB4 4WF ; tel : 223 420066 .
28 As far as the death grant goes , erm for a pensioner that would only be payable erm if somebody actually died within year of leaving pensionable service , due to ill health , and they were not in receipt of an infirmity pension .
29 Erm first of all I I 'm not in support of an exceptions policy .
30 ‘ I 've told you before , Ma , not in front of the boy . ’
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