Example sentences of "not [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The representation Γ v is then + 2 0 0 + 2 , which is not one of the irreducible representations of the character table ; it is a reducible representation . |
| 2 | Windsor Davies has appeared in a few but he 's er not one of the regular ones . |
| 3 | The MP for a seat in Warwickshire , Grunte was not one of the better-loved Tories , but he rarely went unnoticed . |
| 4 | The show purports to be a potted history of the average actor 's life not one of the starspangled knights who represent the tip of the thespian iceberg , but the common-or-garden variety likely to be found filling out the bill in a panto or carrying a spear in the background of a TV costume drama . |
| 5 | However good scenery is not one of the major virtues on the critical scale ; many published opinions throw it in as a sop , a makeweight to balance what they see as much more serious flaws deep in the heart of the Tolkienian ‘ fable ’ , in the essential story of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 6 | I would also advise that a plain salt lick ( not one of the mineralised ones ) should always be available in the stable , so that the horse can help himself to salt as and when he needs it . |
| 7 | From what Louise told her , this was a middle-income prep school , not one of the gilded establishments . |
| 8 | This is not one of the five Sisters , but is so closely related that its inclusion makes sense . |
| 9 | As it happened , just before reading Mr Aitcheson 's article , I had attended a Tribunal involving five unemployment benefit cases where not one of the five appellants attended and indeed one did not even acknowledge receipt of his set of Tribunal papers . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Not one of the great interviews of our time ? ’ he suggested drily . |
| 11 | Well thank you , I , I 'll leave to Norbert the handling of the artist 's side of this , but as to the amateur sportsman , I know this is a very familiar and accepted notion among us , that the British do n't take sport seriously enough , but I wonder if it 's not one of the many self-delusions that we suffer from . |
| 12 | Minutes later the Wolves struck again , with the amazing Steve Bull scoring his 31st goal of the season , not one of the better ones though with the Hereford defence in a tangle . |
| 13 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |
| 14 | This limpness is far from universal — parts of the system are excellent — but you get an uneasy feeling that the tax inspectorate is not one of the better parts . |
| 15 | Pizza is not one of the lowest-calorie dishes you might order , but ounce-for-ounce it can be quite healthy if made with the right ingredients . |
| 16 | Long battles ensued , with an intensification of the controversy when the CNAA approved a BSc sandwich course in Industrial Design ( Technology ) at Napier College , Edinburgh — not one of the Central Institutions . |
| 17 | Not one of the new versions matches that standard , but at least two earn a fair recommendation . |
| 18 | Is that not one of the distinguishing characteristics of an institution of higher education , that its staff do , by and large , conduct research and feel themselves under an obligation to do so ? |
| 19 | A real roach , not one of the roach-bream hybrids of around the same weight the mere began throwing up in numbers later . |
| 20 | Yet , on these grounds alone , not one of the widely-touted types of modern contraception would be acceptable . |
| 21 | One initial difficulty is that effective communication is just not one of the strong points in African systems of education . |
| 22 | Commentators pointed out that not one of the 27 bills presented by Bielecki 's government since taking office in January had yet been passed . |
| 23 | Where a plaintiff claims the delivery of goods let under a hire-purchase agreement to a person other than a body corporate , he shall in his particulars state in the following order : ( 1 ) the date of the agreement and the parties to it , with the number of the agreement or sufficient particulars to enable the debtor to identify the agreement ; ( 2 ) where the plaintiff was not one of the original parties to the agreement , the means by which the rights and duties of the creditor under the agreement passed to him ; ( 3 ) whether the agreement is a regulated agreement and , if it is not a regulated agreement , the reason why ; ( 4 ) the place where the agreement was signed by the debtor ( if known ) ; ( 5 ) the goods claimed ; ( 6 ) the total price of the goods ; ( 7 ) the paid-up sum ; ( 8 ) the unpaid balance of the total price ; ( 9 ) whether a default notice or a notice under s 76(1) or s 98(1) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 has been served on the debtor and if it has , the date on which and the manner in which it was so served ; ( 10 ) the date when the right to demand delivery of the goods accrued ; ( 11 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed as an alternative to the delivery of the goods ; and ( 12 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed in addition to the delivery of the goods or any claim under sub-paragraph ( 10 ) , stating the cause of action in respect of which each such claim is made . |
| 24 | Where a plaintiff 's claim arises out of a hire-purchase agreement , but is not for the delivery of goods , he shall in his particulars state in the following order : ( 1 ) the date of the agreement and the parties to it with the number of the agreement or sufficient particulars to enable the debtor to identify the agreement ; ( 2 ) where the plaintiff was not one of the original parties to the agreement , the means by which the rights and duties of the creditor under the agreement passed to him ; ( 3 ) whether the agreement is a regulated agreement and , if it is not a regulated agreement , the reason why ; ( 4 ) the place where the agreement was signed by the debtor ( if known ) ; ( 5 ) the goods let under the agreement ; ( 6 ) the amount of the total price ; ( 7 ) the paid-up sum ; ( 8 ) the amount ( if any ) claimed as being due and unpaid in respect of any instalment or instalments of the total price ; and ( 9 ) the nature and amount of any other claim and the circumstances in which it arises . |
| 25 | Where the last day for doing any act or taking a proceeding is a Sunday , Christmas Day , Good Friday or Monday or Tuesday in Easter week , or on a day on which the offices of the court are closed , the act or proceeding may be done or taken on the next day afterwards which is not one of the aforesaid days . |
| 26 | The Gamay is not one of the authorised varieties for Champagne , but it has been cultivated in the region for centuries and , at the last count in 1976 , there were 38 hectares . |
| 27 | Not one of the big places , but one of the little shop-sized Chinese cafes that did n't even display an English menu . |
| 28 | Yet by the late seventeenth century it is not one of the main roads described by John Ogilby in his atlas , Britannia , and had thus lost its former significance by that date . |
| 29 | But because it has declined the environmentalist movement is not one of the main concerns in his book . |
| 30 | It is not one of the profoundest experiences of the transcendent world such as release or sartori ; nonetheless it is one of the fundamental manifestations of the transcendent . |