Example sentences of "not [art] [noun] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 2 | Success — or apparent success — had gone to the heads of the dissident group , if not the people on the paper . |
| 3 | Why , oh why , could not the debate on the Bill be held after the general election ? |
| 4 | And that is why we are now taking this direct route of saying , that policy and resources , as the policy making body of this council , should have some input to make sure that we in the planning committee are not the situation on a planning application when instead we deal with the moral issue of turning away people who need homes . |
| 5 | Not the spot on the back of my head ! |
| 6 | If we choose every tenth or every twentieth name , then this is called quasi-random sampling , since not every name on the list has an equal chance of being chosen . |
| 7 | Not every incident on the street contained the potential for legal action . |
| 8 | Not a mark on the body . ’ |
| 9 | Nor were they always as intransigent as was implied by Cook 's famous slogan ‘ Not a penny off the pay , not a minute on the day ’ . |
| 10 | Thomas Cole was not a diarist on the scale or with the range of one of the French painters , surely respected even by him , Eugène Delacroix . |
| 11 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |
| 12 | I guessed that she had been blown far from her oasis , and now there was no landmark other than the wheelbarrow , not a tree , not a blade of grass , not a ripple on the plain , nor a rock bigger than my fist . |
| 13 | Kenneth has a list of questions to ask as a result of his reading , but the Dr has to admit that the subject is a highly complex one and that his knowledge is limited as he is a G.P. and not a specialist on the subject . |
| 14 | You need gentleness tonight , not a man on the knife-edge of control . ’ |
| 15 | On 2 November 1836 , a year before the last part of Birds was published , Gould wrote to Jardine of his latest ambition : ‘ Would not a work on the Birds of Australia be interesting ? |
| 16 | When we say that the response of the Community so far has been ineffectual , that is not a comment on the team spirit and competence of that monitoring force . |
| 17 | Up until now it has maintained a purity of vision that sees a workstation not a terminal on every desk . |
| 18 | You may , perhaps , have thought that I put my point of view too emphatically to you on a matter on which you hold strong views , whereas I am not a partisan on the question of the death penalty . |
| 19 | Yet the text of Figaro is conventional poetry , and , from the point of view of a theatregoer interested in Beaumarchais 's ideas , not a patch on the play . |
| 20 | not a patch on the abattoir . |
| 21 | The G M B also want employers who flout the law to be properly punished , not a slap on the wrist which many hand out , we want imprisonment for serious offenders , and fines which will make potential offenders think twice before cutting corners and putting our members at risk . |
| 22 | He added , incautiously , ‘ There is hardly any aspect of policy today in which trade union leaders are not a brake on the wheel ’ . |
| 23 | I met not a soul on the walk , but the path was in very good condition , a feature we noticed many times in NZ , that the tracks are well looked-after even when apparently hardly used . |
| 24 | Not a lot on a fiver |
| 25 | Well she had been on one or two things , not a lot on the television but er , we . |
| 26 | There 's not a blemish on the fairways . ’ |
| 27 | After all , such bills are personal to the seller , and they are not a charge on the property . |
| 28 | The Council may provide that the provisions of any Codes of Practice promulgated by it shall be available to and shall be taken into account by the investigating and disciplinary bodies and , if appropriate , the appeals committee in determining whether or not an individual on the Register has failed to comply with the Rules of Conduct or is otherwise liable to disciplinary action pursuant to the Charter . |
| 29 | ‘ The IRA state categorically that this was not an attack on a hospital , ’ the IRA statement claimed . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ That 's not an attack on the government . ’ |