Example sentences of "not [prep] the [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will provide you with two sides of an A4 sheet giving you very little detail about the property except that it is or is not worth the agreed purchase price . |
| 2 | Both were convicted and sentenced to hang , ironically for a mass of mundane crimes , and not for the Royal Mail robbery that had made them so famous . |
| 3 | If it were not for the debilitating character question , Clinton would surely have a fair chance of beating Bush . |
| 4 | organised by an individual or group with responsibility for this area among a number of others , but not for the whole course programme : |
| 5 | The strain of the foster colony is chosen for good mothering ability and preferably the coat colour should be different from the animals to be fostered , or the mating arranged so that the natural young of the foster mother are not of the same coat colour as the pups to be fostered . |
| 6 | Fifty-eight per cent of all British households are not of the nuclear family type according to 1966 data , and one in twenty of all households is a single-parent family . |
| 7 | Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’ |
| 8 | If they are a hit , to use a word perhaps not of the big band era , it is probable they will be booked monthly . |
| 9 | In order to make sense of them inferential skills may be needed , as well as an understanding of certain principles not unlike the minimal distance principle that operates for pronominal reference . |
| 10 | It is a natural barrier , not unlike the man-made Iron Curtain or the Berlin Wall ; but it seems to divide men as fiercely . |
| 11 | He puffed at it , producing not a discernible tune but a catchy rhythm , while attempting a dance not unlike the Irish clog variety . |
| 12 | There used to be a polled Irish Dun dairy breed not unlike the old Suffolk Dun of eastern England . |
| 13 | The following table is a record of all limited-overs internationals since but not including the 1987 World Cup . |
| 14 | The groundsman is not under the present LMS scheme . |
| 15 | They recorded their new demos not under the blazing summary affluence of a Compass Point but in the rundown but equally effective ruins of Out Of The Blue , an eight-track studio in the rat-infested decay of Ancoats , Manchester . |
| 16 | On the other hand , his most recent submission , a batch of five , had been returned not with the standard rejection slip but with a handwritten note from the screenplay editor , Hugh Sixsmith . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't afford not to work , not with the whacking mortgage repayment Sebastian and I have to find every month , ’ she confided . |
| 18 | The fact that he demonstrated his interest in those eight cases , emphasised them and talked so wildly about them , shows that his concern is not with the genuine asylum seeker , but with diminishing the respect that this country should hold for people who are in desperate trouble and whom , in better and more self-confident days , hon. Members of all parties would have been in favour of helping . |
| 19 | Ms Bridges added : ‘ We have proved 100 per cent to our satisfaction that Norman Lamont was not in the Praed Street shop and there is no benefit for us to lie about it . |
| 20 | He will not in the long run profit from arrangements that turn the surviving research institutes into training grounds for emigrant specialists . |
| 21 | Where government introduces measures that exclude people from resources long since used by them , the people come to view the project as a zero-sum game ( Thomson in Glantz , ed. 1977 ) , where their loss is exactly others ' gain , and conservation will not in the long run lead to an increase in their incomes . |
| 22 | The concept of excluded investment activities serves to remove some of the uncertainty in respect of industrial and commercial companies which may be involved in investment activities but whose mainstream business is not in the financial services sector . |
| 23 | But not in the usual Richardson way . |
| 24 | I couldn ‘ t understand why he was not in the European Championship squad . ’ |
| 25 | Nurses therefore are not in the individual patient/nurse relationship from choice , but in the capacity of making a professional contribution . |
| 26 | The state might impinge upon such a business through taxation , import duties etc. , but not in the actual production process and the creation of surplus-value . |
| 27 | What of the media that are federally owned , of which the most important are the FRCN and NTV ? politicians from those four parties not in the Federal Government claim that federal radio and television are ordered either to ignore or play down news favourable to them . |
| 28 | Both of them imply that the process of learning involves repetition , not in the simple rote sense , but as a repeated returning to the same ground , the same problems , in the end a living with , an immersion in the subject to the point where it becomes one 's world . |
| 29 | DNA recognition specificity lies not in the entire variable region but only in domains within the region [ 13 ] . |
| 30 | These results suggest that ( allowing for the differences in trading hours between markets ) , information from foreign stock markets is reflected in the Finnish index futures market within a few hours , but not in the underlying spot market . |