Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not to say that Parliament does not have a significant influence on the pattern of public expenditure , but it is exercised in various indirect ways at the formative stage of determining the pattern of public expenditure , and not through variations in the government 's proposals once they have been laid before the House . |
| 2 | With regard to the rest of the local ornithology around Yarrundi he was more confident , and in his instructions to Gilbert written on 20 January 1842 , he stipulated , ‘ The Brushes are not worth hunting for the birds . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's not about racism in the police force , it 's not about dishonesty amongst police officers . |
| 8 | The estimated hazard may increase with duration for some individuals and not for others in the sample , depending on their data . |
| 9 | This demo 's not for sale at the moment but there 's a chance to see the band at the Wheatsheaf , Farnham , on Wednesday night . |
| 10 | Country house visiting , which had been common in the eighteenth century and Regency when everyone liked to have their taste admired , became infrequent as even the greatest houses closed their gates to visitors , persuaded that the sanctities of ‘ home ’ were not for exhibition to the public eye . |
| 11 | Jounieh , after all , lay to the north of Beirut , not towards Israel in the south . |
| 12 | This back-dating of the appointment was not of significance at the time but it is an early example of how masters in Stockport could come and go without the immediate supervision of the Company . |
| 13 | After four months Alderman Joshua Smith , president of Southwark Borough Council , secured her release from prison — but not of course from the rest of her debts . |
| 14 | But the conversation between Kelly Connor and Nick Morley was not of matters of the heart , but of life , death and horses . |
| 15 | But it seems to me that the wife might thereafter have offered to return and might have ceased to be in desertion , and that clause 2 would at that stage and in that event have been in operation : therefore it does not seem to me that it can be said that clause 2 was not of value to the husband . |
| 16 | They are not of value in the description of mature ability , nor in the description of the demands of writing for specific purposes . |
| 17 | LEA-appointed members may outnumber by one the other members ( persons with experience in education or knowledge of local educational conditions , or parents of pupils — but not of pupils at the school which is the subject of the appeal ) . |
| 18 | Naturally many of these creatures are not of interest to the home fishkeeper , but even so , the scope is still pretty formidable with representatives from all the major invertebrate groups available for the aquarium . |
| 19 | We can all still bring leather in from our friends in Australia but for reasons that I do n't wholly understand , this is very much dearer than the local er supplies available and for the time being it 's not of interest to the saddlery-makers in Walsall . |
| 20 | The third group of parts covers several matters of importance to the insolvency practitioner , but not of interest to the businessman . |
| 21 | The attractions of the CA methodology in the study of code switching can be summarised as follows : ( 1 ) The CA approach avoids premature theorising about what is or is not of interest to the analyst . |
| 22 | Montaner was built to defend Gaston Phoebus 's lands from attack from the north , and not against raids from the direction of the Pyrenees ; so it seems to face towards Gascony . |
| 23 | I 'm not against dogs in the country at all . |
| 24 | Exports in convertible currencies — not including trade with the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( COMECON ) — rose by approximately 4 per cent , with a resulting trade deficit of $763,000,000 in 1989 , compared with $350,000,000 in 1988 . |
| 25 | He was not under suspicion at the time , although he was about to be dismissed for his indiscretions and outrageous behaviour . |
| 26 | Not with things like the shopping . |
| 27 | Both France Télécom and Deutsche Bundespost Telekom would love to launch global telecoms joint ventures , but not with AT&T in the driving seat . |
| 28 | Or , at least , not with work in the sense of going to an office or a factory . |
| 29 | The single-shelled molluscs feed not with tentacles within the shell like the brachiopods but with a radula , a ribbon-shaped tongue , covered with rasping teeth . |
| 30 | Not with humans around the quarry the whole time . |