Example sentences of "not [art] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not the thought of a fall that worried her . |
| 2 | Such matters were not the concern of a Khan . |
| 3 | Yes , he was a professor — an associate , not the holder of a chair , and did teach , but preferred to be referred to as Dr. Briant rather than professor . |
| 4 | Thus H-YRDN ( which is translated throughout the Bible as Jordan ) is not the name of a river but means the ‘ Ridge ’ and refers to a huge escarpment which dominates Asir and explains , says Salibi , why the Old Testament nowhere makes reference to the Jordan as a river . |
| 5 | ( The subsidiary element is the idea that since ‘ pain' is evidently not the name of a material object it must be the name of an aethereal one , a personal experience . ) |
| 6 | But if we ( rightly ) say that God has to be unchangeable we do not mean he is static any more than if we say ‘ The Equator ’ is not the name of a poison we mean that it is safe to eat it . |
| 7 | Sure , the DNA was perhaps a little preoccupied with carrying the genetic memory , but could not the memories of a lifetime be readily encoded in the myriad of potential unique protein sequences ? |
| 8 | Does not the concept of a citizen imply the existence of a society ? |
| 9 | In the event , the more fateful decision was not the proposal of a route within the walled city but making the starting point for the march the railway station on the Protestant Waterside . |
| 10 | But why not the hall for a change ? |
| 11 | In Nakkuda Ali one of the reasons why the Privy Council denied the application of natural justice was because the cancellation of a licence was characterised as the withdrawal of a privilege and not the determination of a right , and in ex p . |
| 12 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 13 | But the counter-argument still held good : that it was the operational control and not the manufacture of a weapon system that made it independent . |
| 14 | Might not the mastery of a skill quickly mean that an approach to learning through discovery could be more effectively undertaken ? |
| 15 | Erm , er he might be doing a very good job of explaining some other notion , not the notion of a self or an individual , but er something else . |
| 16 | When Philip in 346 settled the Third Sacred War , he was ( personally ; not the Macedonians as a race ) admitted to the Delphic Amphictyony , the body which managed the prestige sanctuary at Delphi ; and so he gained admission to the Greek fraternity . |
| 17 | yeah , it 's not the wording of a company cos companies ca n't write , it 's only human beings that can write , which human being is responsible for this wording ? |
| 18 | Whether or not the subject of a mosaic was chosen by the client , the mosaicist had to rely on a number of aids and methodical practices when organising his work . |
| 19 | MANCHESTER High School for Girls , an independent institution , was not the subject of a photograph on page 3 of yesterday 's Guardian which showed buckets being used to collect water from a leaking roof . |
| 20 | I looked to Mrs for guidance ; she looked amused , so I surmised it was not the inception of a punishment for my earlier and inconvenient frankness . |
| 21 | However , if the Transfer Regulations do not apply and it is not the transfer of a business as a going concern , the position is governed by the common law . |
| 22 | In common with most of the population , the word ‘ soccer ’ has connotations of Americanism or cheap commercialism , not the dialect of a person who appears to epitomise your typical working-class northerner . |
| 23 | A constitution is not the act of a government , but of a people constituting a government , and a government without a constitution is power without right … |
| 24 | It is not the function of a judge to use his own expertise in a given area outside the law and the administration of justice . |
| 25 | It is not the function of a trial judge , as the Court of Appeal stated in Alsford v British Telecommunications PLC 30 October , 1986 . |
| 26 | But joint Charlton manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ Nobody begrudged Robert his move — and that was not the case with a couple of players when they left . ’ |
| 27 | However , the appointment of a receiver must not be equated with that of a liquidator : ( i ) where a receiver is appointed the company need not go into liquidation and if it does the same person who acted as receiver will normally not be appointed liquidator ; ( ii ) liquidation is a class action designed to protect the interests of the unsecured creditors whereas , as we shall see , receivership is designed to protect the interests of the security holders who appointed the receiver and it is for this reason that a receiver can be appointed even where the company is in liquidation ; ( iii ) liquidation terminates the trading power of the company whereas this is not the case with receivership ; ( iv ) a liquidator has power to disclaim onerous property , something not possible in the case of receivership ; ( v ) a liquidator in a compulsory winding up is an officer of the court whereas this is not the case with a receiver unless appointed by the court ; ( vi ) lastly , it is easier to obtain recognition of liquidation as opposed to receivership in proceedings in foreign courts . |
| 28 | This is not the case at a rehearsal where the players are dressed casually , people come and go , some members of the orchestra are talking to one another , while others are sitting drinking coffee , tea ( or perhaps even soup ) . |
| 29 | The definition will be not the ruling of a judge but the manifesto of a revolutionary junta . |
| 30 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |