Example sentences of "not [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earliest steam-pumps of Thomas Newcomen and others in the eighteenth century were not erected from the kind of detailed and accurate drawings customary by the nineteenth . |
| 2 | Carole Peacock 's Disney Special is an eye catcher of a Rokkaku , not flown in the melee of competition . |
| 3 | The proposed government centre ( not yet a palace ) was not situated at the end of converging boulevards , but occupied an already partially derelict and vacant site . |
| 4 | After all , exploitation had not stopped with the theft of the gold . |
| 5 | He and three passengers travelling with him were arrested , on the grounds that the car was not registered in the name of the driver . |
| 6 | As we saw in this chapter , more recently it has been found that this account of processing can not be correct for at least three reasons : ( a ) there is evidence that syntactic and semantic processing is not delayed until the end of the clause ; ( b ) there is evidence that information about the specific wording is retained after the end of a clause if that clause contains nonspecific words which subsequent clauses will disambiguate ; ( c ) specific wording will also be retained if it has pragmatic significance . |
| 7 | The storm damage was not treated as a consequence of the collision but as an intervening event in the course of an ordinary voyage . |
| 8 | She was not clad in the garb of her order but attired in a pale blue dress trimmed with the copper hue of squirrel fur . |
| 9 | The fundamental aspects of FRED 1 have generally not altered in the process of conversion from exposure draft to standard . |
| 10 | Therefore the clearance of G17 was not altered by the eradication of H pylori . |
| 11 | The increase in the proportion of DN cells in TCR- β mutant mice is due to the reduction in the numbers of DP cells : the number per thymus of each DN subpopulation is not altered by the introduction of the TCR- β mutation ( Figs 2 a , 3a and b ) . |
| 12 | Lying is never due to witchcraft , nor can it excuse adultery ; a thief can not plead in mitigation that he was bewitched , for witchcraft is not recognized as a cause of theft . |
| 13 | Perhaps the Norwich striker had not adjusted to the importance of the occasion , but Norman was able to make a crucial save . |
| 14 | The judges declined to accept the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's argument that the sentence was not intended as a statement of fact but as merely an expression of opinion or as the platform of an argument in a community wide debate . |
| 15 | This book is not intended as a textbook of theories , so there will be no detailed exegetical analysis of each one . |
| 16 | They are presented in order to illustrate some similarities and differences in the way the Cockcroft recommendations are being interpreted in relation to assessment and are not intended as a review of all the initiatives currently being undertaken . |
| 17 | The picture in our feature was supplied to us by a manufacturer to illustrate a particular cot set and was not intended as a recommendation of how to put a baby down to sleep . |
| 18 | It is not intended as a source of support for the committed student . |
| 19 | It is not intended as an explanation of linguistic communication , a theory we might proceed to test . |
| 20 | I suggested that if there was money available from sponsors that was not intended for the development of rugby , then it might be used as a way of rewarding the squad . |
| 21 | The answers that his analysis might produce were not intended for the enlightenment of participants but for the enlightenment of anthropologists . |
| 22 | It is not intended in the case of outboard motors that any deduction should be made until the engine is over 3 years old . |
| 23 | Couched in these terms , where the political nature of the interpretation is not hidden behind the language of ‘ cognitive ’ structures and ‘ intellectual ’ abilities , the argument for the consequences of literacy appears less absolute , less ‘ technical ’ and more obviously dependent on ideologically-based assumptions . |
| 24 | Care must be taken during negotiations with or on behalf of a target that any group relief claims are not jeopardised by the existence of an ‘ arrangement ’ to sell . |
| 25 | He was not regarded as a photographer of , for example , American industry . |
| 26 | Scottish bus users are clearly not regarded as a category of citizenry who must be bought off with window dressing of that type . |
| 27 | Unlike a probation order , which was not regarded as a sentence of the Court , a suspended sentence ranked not merely as a sentence , but as a sentence of imprisonment , with a condition attached which activated the element of custodial confinement only if another offence was committed within a stated period of not less than one year nor more than two ( originally three ) years . |
| 28 | Socially , he was not regarded as a model of refinement , and was known to his Durham constituents as ‘ Bonnie Geordie ’ . |
| 29 | By the end of the century the advocates of Neo-Malthusianism , as it was called , were aiming to bring child-bearing under control ; life , except in strict Catholic families , was not regarded as the gift of God . |
| 30 | Serrano 's victory in the January 1991 run-off presidential elections , however , was not regarded as an expression of a national consensus for his proposed policies , since a record 55 per cent of those eligible abstained from voting [ see pp. 37850-51 ; 37956 ] . |