Example sentences of "not [art] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he maintained that was not the purpose of the composite he moved on behalf of the Tottenham constituency party . |
| 2 | That is not the purpose of the legislation . |
| 3 | It was not the purpose of the meetings to produce or agree upon policy proposals ; nor was there any attempt to do so . |
| 4 | The subskills themselves are not the purpose of the activity , but they must be developed to serve the needs of the higher-level complex activity . |
| 5 | Paragraph B suggests that er we 're dealing with a report which proports to address er community leadership and representation that 's not the purpose of the report . |
| 6 | 1.8 The definition of " contributory negligence " in s1(1) of the Law Reform ( Contributory Negligence ) Act 1945 ( see Appendix B ) refers to " the claimant 's share in the responsibility for the damage " ( not the responsibility for the cause of the damage ) . |
| 7 | For too long I thought this type of training was not the responsibility of the vet . |
| 8 | Phrases like ‘ unauthorized purchase — not the responsibility of the company ’ rumbled around the room . |
| 9 | No distinction will be made between the two funds involved even though one of them was not the responsibility of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 10 | But ‘ goodness of fit ’ is not the whole of the art of curve fitting — users are encouraged to step through other equation fits , viewing the data and residuals plots as well as the data tables , and all are very conveniently accomplished . |
| 11 | The attention of people in Britain was focused on the area where Marlborough was campaigning , particularly because this was the area of the greatest military and financial commitment , but this was not the whole of the struggle . |
| 12 | It has proved extremely difficult , too , to find significant changes in attitudes in many markets except over a rather long period — which does not disprove the theory , but suggests either that advertising does not work very fast , which no one wishes to admit , or that attitudes are not the whole of the story . |
| 13 | Legal rules are not the whole of the instructions — departmental policy guidelines , for example , play a large part — but legal rules are of considerable importance because they are binding and authoritative . |
| 14 | Yes , I mean it 's not the whole of the market , admittedly , and we are still encouraging our own countrymen to take a holiday in this country erm but if one 's blunt about it , yes , it 's erm a large sector of the market and one that is , one we 've got to get back to come up to last year 's levels . |
| 15 | He emphasized that " NATO is not the whole of the Atlantic alliance , and not all questions can be settled at that level " . |
| 16 | The eminent weekend ‘ assessors ’ are no doubt most conscientious in their task and , despite the apparent absence of a ‘ score card ’ , come to their conclusions in inviolate objectivity , but that is not the whole of the process . |
| 17 | But that was not the whole of the Webbs ' criticism of Owen 's grand project for the reconstitution of the economy as a set of nationwide industrial co-operatives , one for each trade or industry . |
| 18 | We are urging that law is , in truth , not the will of the State , but that from which the will of the State derives whatever moral authority it may possess . |
| 19 | If the will of Parliament is sovereign and not the will of the people , how can we be true politically participative citizens ? |
| 20 | This is not the call of the entertainers or the edutainers . |
| 21 | The answer to that is that the consideration is not the rendering of the services , as is plain from the fact that the document is to take effect in Equity from the date . |
| 22 | Repatriation was not the concern of the embassy , they must go to the British Consulate , a little distance away on the other side of the Brandenburg Gate . |
| 23 | At least , is this not the tendency in the beginning with most very young children and certainly with lively , healthy ones ? |
| 24 | ‘ You are so young , so tender — you know not the wickedness of the world , of devious and ambitious rascals . |
| 25 | The subject is the possibility of an attempt to normalize relations with Argentina , not the sovereignty of the Falklands , which is the ‘ Great Unmentionable ’ of mid-eighties Whitehall . |
| 26 | ABOVE The Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei ( 1564–1642 ) , who got into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church because he stated in public that , as a result of his observations , he had come to the conclusion that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe . |
| 27 | As US scientist Lester Pearson said , ‘ There is a need for a revolution in mankind 's ( sic ) thinking as basic as the one introduced by Copernicus , who first pointed out that the earth was not the centre of the universe . ’ |
| 28 | Where such stories differ from many adult ‘ romances ’ is in the inclusion of strong female characters and the relegation of romance to the edge and not the centre of the girl 's world . |
| 29 | Edit the RDBI configuration file and ensure that all relational database users specified at the MAP USERNAME keyword are valid i.e. if DEC Rdb/VMS is the target database then all users are existing VMS users , or if ORACLE is the target database than all users are valid ORACLE users ( but not the name of the transfer account ) . |
| 30 | The fines are up to £1,000 and the provision arises as a result of the introduction of police cameras on roads which provide evidence of offences such as speeding or jumping traffic lights where the police are in possession of the vehicle number but not the name of the driver . |