Example sentences of "not a [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That she is not a member of a Union , and is , therefore , more amenable to the will of the employer as the absolute rule of the workshop . |
| 2 | An injury sustained whilst playing football would be covered provided the claimant was not a member of a team on a football tour . |
| 3 | I do not have a handicap because I am not a member of a club , will never be able to afford to join one and ca n't afford the high green fees around London to play regularly enough to improve my game . |
| 4 | It was particularly offensive to hear the Secretary of State talking about price increases in the gas industry before privatisation , as though he were not a member of a party and Government who decreed that gas prices had to rise arbitrarily , unilaterally and unnecessarily by 10 per cent . |
| 5 | A debenture holder is not a member of the company and is entitled to interest on his debenture stock whether the company earns a profit in the accounting year or not . |
| 6 | If , on the other hand , a person decides to invest in a company by taking debentures ( a loan made by the investor to the company which is normally ‘ secured ’ ) that person is not a member of the company and has no involvement in the running of the company . |
| 7 | In contrast with a shareholder , the debentureholder is in law not a member of the company having rights in it , but a creditor having rights against it . |
| 8 | As regards ( a ) , the Act further provides that a transfer by the deceased 's personal representative , even if he is not a member of the company , is as valid as if he had been . |
| 9 | erm One of our buyers , Spain , er was not in favour of that solution because they were not a member of the tornado team and they did not want to see some kind of old boys club er running this project which was very important to them . |
| 10 | I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal . |
| 11 | It 's not a member of the committee . |
| 12 | Crewe boss Gradi is the only manager of a club in either the Premier or Football League not a member of the organisation — and it 's partly down to the incorrect spelling of his surname . |
| 13 | A lease , because of the involvement of the landlord ( who is not or who at any rate in his capacity as landlord is not a member of the firm ) , needs not only an appropriate declaration that the named partners joined as lessees hold the term on trust but also : ( a ) a declaration that possession of the demised premises by partners who are not trustees of the lease shall not by itself constitute a breach of the usual covenants against parting with or sharing possession ; ( b ) a provision which dispenses with the landlord 's consent ( or makes it automatic ) to an assignment of the demised premises to partners other than the original lessees or to the vesting of the premises in new trustees for the firm . |
| 14 | If either partner is not a member of the Society their application must be approved in writing by two adult members of the Society . |
| 15 | The full status for the male is achieved only after killing an enemy , who , by definition , is anyone not a member of the home village . |
| 16 | The person who needs to unblock the money is not a member of the Government but Commissioner Millan . |
| 17 | The editor passed the letter to a person whom he knew to be an ‘ outside broker ’ ( one who does Stock Exchange business but is not a member of the Exchange ) but whose honesty he had no reason to suspect . |
| 18 | The broker may , in any event , act only as agent if he is not a member of the exchange at all but deals on the exchange through a member or , indeed , in the case of over-the-counter transactions . |
| 19 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : The Hon. Gentleman was not a member of the Standing Committee , so he may be unaware that the disposal programme will start in the autumn and will continue for a considerable time . |
| 20 | " No , I was not : I 'm not a member of the South Tipperary Brigade , but I heard the details from one of the lads there , and they 've since been confirmed by the Big Fellow himself . " |
| 21 | The EC includes France and excludes the USA ; NATO includes the USA , but France ( see table 1.1 ) is not a member of the alliance 's integrated command . |
| 22 | The NCT is not a member of the campaign . |
| 23 | A few weeks later , he also reported with some amusement how he had involved a colleague ( not a member of the group ) in discussion about another pupil when he had caught both himself and his colleague ‘ fixing ’ the child inadvertently in his bad behaviour . |
| 24 | Every middle-class employee is certainly not a member of the bourgeoisie , but most sociologists would also feel that the middle class are not true proletarians either , even though they own no wealth . |
| 25 | Nguyen Manh Cam , a former Deputy Foreign Minister and ambassador to the Soviet Union , was not a member of the politburo or secretariat . |
| 26 | ‘ It is permissible for the data to be used for accident prevention purposes , but the source of the information must not be divulged to anyone who is not a member of the Authority . ’ |
| 27 | For a researcher who is not a member of the community under study — which is nearly always the case — it may be difficult to decide which utterances belong to which code , in the case where the two languages in contact are very similar . |
| 28 | I do n't mind you at all , but the boys they 'd be suspicious of anyone who 's not a member of the police force , and that 's how people will see you : you 're not a member of the force ’ ( FN 23/10/87 , p. 20 ) . |
| 29 | This was star billing indeed for a junior minister and Sir Robin Day mischievously asked Mr Major why Mrs Shephard was in the line-up if she was not a member of the Cabinet . |
| 30 | But Palmerston 's surprise at the announcement seems genuine , and Hall , who was not a member of the Cabinet , probably failed to keep it informed about his proposals . |