Example sentences of "[noun] not [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Muse sits on a rock , and Apollo before her stands not on the base-line but on an irregular indication of ground just clear of it . |
| 2 | Unbelievable , I mean I 've always looked upon the horse as a nice horse not as the winner of an Arkle . |
| 3 | Even when subjects are selected for experiment not on the basis of extreme scores in the attribute being studied but on the scores of some correlated attribute , the same problem can arise . |
| 4 | The examination of existing stations during the Coal Review established there is no case for early closure not for the abandoning Sizewell B. |
| 5 | Naylor Massingham , she saw , had his eyes not on the file under discussion , but on her . |
| 6 | What of the media that are federally owned , of which the most important are the FRCN and NTV ? politicians from those four parties not in the Federal Government claim that federal radio and television are ordered either to ignore or play down news favourable to them . |
| 7 | A representative applicant is one who comes to court not to protect his , her or its own interests but to represent the interests of other parties not before the court . |
| 8 | Evidently the present is in some respects not unlike the past . |
| 9 | PR departments of advertising agencies , which can vary from a small press office handling product publicity to augment an advertising campaign , to a large comprehensive PR department not unlike the agency setup itself . |
| 10 | This was a result not of the Bill or of the war but of a 1938 decision whose effect was delayed by the outbreak of war . |
| 11 | Reference to the both Taskopruzade 's original and Mecdi 's translation , makes it difficult to understand how such confusion has arisen ; for although relatively few facts are given there about Abdulkerim , and although it is impossible to specify with any assurance the precise dates of his Muftilik , one thing at least is clearly stated : that Abdulkerim was Mufti not in the time of Bayezid II ( 886–918/1481–1512 ) but in the time of Mehmed II ( 855–86/1451–81 ) . |
| 12 | The initial strategy planned by APU was to examine pupils ' performances not in the recognized school subjects but in certain areas of development — the verbal , mathematical , scientific , ethical ( subsequently changed to social and personal ) , aesthetic and physical . |
| 13 | This writer remembers one Good Friday sermon in an Anglican parish church in which the preacher referred to the crucifixion not as the self-offering of God 's only Son and an event unique in man 's history but as an example of the ‘ little man ’ being maltreated by the all-powerful state . |
| 14 | Political Islam made its biggest splash not in the Middle East but in distant Algeria , and for reasons wholly unconnected with the Gulf war . |
| 15 | At break I was on duty in the corridor telling people to get out and go around to the canteen not through the school . |
| 16 | A person with HIV might fall ill with an infection or condition not on the CDC list , and they might be very ill indeed , but they would not necessarily have AIDS . |
| 17 | Operational records are described as giving day-to-day information such as lists of books issued to each user or listings giving the whereabouts of books not on the shelves . |
| 18 | Maternal risk factors known at booking were age under 18 or over 35 ; primiparity or parity of more than three ; being in manual or non-manual work ; being less than 158 cm tall ; attending antenatal care after 18 weeks ' gestation ; having diabetes ; being a smoker ; being of Asian origin ; having a history of infertility ; having a husband in social class III manual , IV , or V ; and having a general practitioner not on the obstetric list . |
| 19 | And er were there any other reasons not on the card ? |
| 20 | In the course of time , however , the monotheistic principle began to assert itself , and for a complex of reasons not within the scope of this essay , the god Yahweh was elevated to a position of supremacy over all other deities . |
| 21 | Gilbert would probably have done better to base his case not on the child 's moral sense , which was largely that imposed by adults , but rather on the child 's tendency to invest violence with fantasy . |
| 22 | It shows that people who insist ‘ that 's not what it means ’ or ‘ you ca n't say that ’ rest their case not on the facts of language , but on the arrogance of power . |
| 23 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
| 24 | This case is therefore best considered as an instance not of the role of intention in trusts , but of the general role it could play in the interpretation of testamentary dispositions . |
| 25 | However , the significance of the above cases is not confined to activities not in the nature of commercial ventures or to the past or to contracting out by government . |
| 26 | Ordinary people who have been awarded ‘ less important ’ decorations like the British Empire Medal may well find it pinned on their chest not by the Queen but a lord lieutenant in the form of a retired colonel or minor baronet . |
| 27 | Of course it 's possible that he made other calls not in the line of business . ’ |
| 28 | decisions of those courts not within the hierarchy of the English legal system . |
| 29 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 30 | It seeks the origins of the present not in the past which is temporally distant , but in external contacts which are spatially remote . |