Example sentences of "not [art] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a starry night that night , and by leaning against the cold window Boy could see the stars , not the stars of The Bar ceiling now , but the real ones . |
| 2 | Taliesin said , ‘ We have not the riches of the East , nor the wealth of the world , sir . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | They are not the reasons for the torture that I would be suffering in his place . |
| 5 | The absence of individual marriages led Morgan to the view that in such a society a person must belong to the gens of the mother , not the gens of the father , because with such a system of marriage you could never be sure who your father was . |
| 6 | The remarks of the hon. Member for Sunderland , South ( Mr. Mullin ) suggests that his primary concern is not the interests of the taxpayer who supplies the money or the customer who uses the services , but the staff who work in those services . |
| 7 | Those studies reached the conclusion that , whatever else is served by privatisation and deregulation , it is not the interests of the consumer . |
| 8 | While shareholders are not the owners of the company 's assets as a matter of strict law , they are in substance the owners by virtue of being the contributors of the company 's capital . |
| 9 | It was held by the Divisional Court that they should not have done so , and the case was remitted with directions to the magistrates to ascertain whether or not the ingredients of the offence were made out . |
| 10 | Because there 's not the ingredients in the cleanser that there is the moisturizer and if you have any cleanser on the skin it 's blocking the work of the moisturizer . |
| 11 | But more often than not the women of the fabliau are presented with admiration and respect . |
| 12 | Whether or not the advantages to the business of imposing a change outweigh the disadvantages to the employee is one of the factors which should be taken into account . |
| 13 | If the one we crossed this time was a steep climb and then a pleasant sweep into a warm green valley , and not the mountains of the moon , I was the better pleased , because although it was different it was also wonderful , and because I felt instinctively that the heights must be earned . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the singers are not the puppets of the show , they are meant to represent flesh-and-blood people , and should react accordingly . |
| 15 | Australia has contested , at this point , not the merits of the claim but the admissibility of the claim and the jurisdiction of the court in respect thereof . |
| 16 | Malos also said social workers needed to realise children were indirect victims of domestic violence : ‘ A lot of evidence is coming to light about the effects of domestic violence on children even if they are not the objects of the violence . ’ |
| 17 | Secondly , if it is not the rules of the sentence that enable us to be meaningful and to perceive meaning , then what is it ? |
| 18 | That 's not the rules of the game . |
| 19 | Eastern Airlines , long a takeover candidate , found itself in bankruptcy , not the arms of a suitor . |
| 20 | They are not grey , dumpy and invisible , but real women who are not the products of the plastic surgeon 's skill . |
| 21 | The courts would also be able to keep many more people out of custody if there were more bail hostels , where defendants could reside in a sheltered environment while receiving assessment from local services , and more sheltered hostels for sentenced offenders who require supervision by probation officers but not the restrictions of a prison . |
| 22 | The oil sheikhs at least have the excuse that it is their countries ' natural wealth that they are frittering away , not the fruits of the toil of their peoples . |
| 23 | Do not the members of the Government Front Bench think that my remarks are important ? |
| 24 | They describe the actual material benefits and opportunities of a group , whether or not the members of the group recognise these facts . |
| 25 | They were not the virtues of the cloister . |
| 26 | However , according to the decisions of labour courts , agency workers are not only not the employees of the client organisation or user firm , they are also not the employees of the agency which supplies them . |
| 27 | However , according to the decisions of labour courts , agency workers are not only not the employees of the client organisation or user firm , they are also not the employees of the agency which supplies them . |
| 28 | These are not the words of a proto-realist . |
| 29 | It is linked to the magnetic field of the transmitted wave — not the turns of the coil . |
| 30 | So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water . |