Example sentences of "not a [noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Imperial Cancer Research Fund , which is not a company limited by guarantee , would have to comply with the Charities Act . |
| 2 | This is not a technique restricted to India . |
| 3 | in his lordship 's opinion it was designed to provide the thrill and enjoyment of waterskiing without the constraint of boat and towrope. as such it was not a vessel used in navigation and therefore not subject to the marine conventions act 1911 which imposed a 2 year limitation period as opposed to a 3 year limitation period . |
| 4 | There 's not a vice committed on shore but is practised here . |
| 5 | This is not a problem reserved for eventers or endurance horses , this can and does frequently occur in unfit animals used excessively in the summer . |
| 6 | On the one hand , so as to exclude recovery , the present was not a payment made under mistake of law nor was there any payment to avoid threatened litigation . |
| 7 | Falconry is not a sport confined to women , but on this occasion I felt I had seen the perfect emblem for the ‘ Mistress of the Beasts ’ . |
| 8 | By s12 of the Solicitors Act , the Law Society is given discretion to grant or refuse an application for a practising certificate in the following cases : ( 1 ) a first application ; ( 2 ) an application by a solicitor who has never held an unconditional certificate since admission ; ( 3 ) where 12 months or more will have elapsed since a practising certificate was last held ; ( 4 ) after the disciplinary tribunal has ordered a penalty or costs against the applicant or delivered a reprimand ; ( 5 ) after failure by the applicant to offer sufficient explanation for his or her professional conduct after being called upon so to do ; ( 6 ) after failure to deliver an accountant 's report in due time ( and an additional fee will be payable if the discretion is not invoked to refuse the application ) ; ( 7 ) after the expiry of a period of suspension ; ( 8 ) after the name of the applicant who has been struck off is restored to the roll ; ( 9 ) while the applicant is an undischarged bankrupt ; ( 10 ) after the applicant 's discharge from bankruptcy or after the applicant has entered into a composition or deed of arrangement for the benefit of his creditors ; ( 11 ) while the applicant is a patient as defined by s94 of the Mental Health Act 1983 or a person as to whom powers have been exercised under s104 of the Mental Health Act 1959 or s98 of the 1983 Act ; ( 12 ) where the applicant has received a sentence of imprisonment ; ( 13 ) where the applicant has failed to satisfy a money judgment against him or her which is not a judgment limited to costs and which is not a judgment in respect of which indemnity or relief from some other person is available . |
| 9 | This is not a party dominated by technocrats who have fearlessly built great industries , but ‘ Increasingly politicians without a great deal of first-hand experience of the world outside politics are running the country , including the economy , in conjunction with civil servants who similarly lack first-hand experience of the world outside politics , ’ Anthony King noted as long ago as 1981 . |
| 10 | to be cumulative during the year , and not a one-off produced under pressure ( say ) at the end of the year |
| 11 | Some conception of destructive energy , what has been called above ‘ negative energy ’ ( not a term used by Freud ) , was needed to counterbalance the positive , life-affirming energy of the sexual instincts . |
| 12 | When I was twelve , and I got baptized , erm a lady gave me a little text and it was from Joshua chapter one and it was verse nine and it says have I not commanded you be strong and courageous do not be terrified , do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go and that 's a verse that I 've been able to remember and to thank God for on so many different occasions all through my training as a doctor and it 's , all the promises in the bible are absolutely true and you can rely on them because it 's not a book written by men but it 's a book written by God . |
| 13 | It is not a view shared by historians like Thomis who consider Luddism to have been " industrial in its origins and industrial too in its aims " . |
| 14 | We expect a lead from Westminster , not a vacuum left at Christmas or any other time of the year by a bunch of freeloaders . |
| 15 | It is a personal testimony , not a claim made for Catholicism or even for Christianity . |
| 16 | This is not an activity restricted to schoolchildren , there are lots of organisations abroad that are anxious to find penfriends for people of all ages . |
| 17 | It is very difficult to estimate the numbers of people living in communes ; this is not an area recorded by government statistical surveys . |
| 18 | How Prince could have known the thoughts of almost three hundred people is difficult to imagine , but it was not an opinion held by John Edward Gray of the British Museum , nor of Lord Derby . |
| 19 | That is not an assumption made by Amis or Golding or Murdoch , and that is the plain sense in which they are not Modernists . |
| 20 | This is an important recognition for the narrator , for gradually in his quest for Bazlen he too comes to accept that he is ‘ passing through ’ , and that the truth of which he is in pursuit is not an object fixed in time and space . |
| 21 | Duncan took some persuading — £250 and the scrap option on the VW to be exact — but agreed to meet me at Blackberry Hill with his wrecker truck ( there is n't a vehicle known to man he ca n't get hold of ) in two hours . |
| 22 | Windproofing is n't a quality associated with fleece clothing , but manufacturers are making moves to remedy the situation . |