Example sentences of "[adj] not the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were this not the case , the buy-in would be tax free to a corporate shareholder because , by virtue of s208 , the corporate shareholder would not be liable to corporation tax on the distribution , unless it is taken into account in the shareholder 's capital gains tax computation ( the latter not being precluded by s208 ) . |
| 2 | At least , is this not the tendency in the beginning with most very young children and certainly with lively , healthy ones ? |
| 3 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 4 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 5 | But was that not the stable where little Tom … ? |
| 6 | Mr , is that not the case . |
| 7 | Miss Logan , embarrassed by Our Lord 's words to Nicodemus , was instead thinking about bitumen : was that not the material used by artists to blacken the shadows in their paintings ? |
| 8 | When it comes to really assist those who er of the so I I would be grateful if members would remember that this item is on the agenda because first of all petition received and secondly because there is no explanation in that not the time to discuss whether this application should be . |
| 9 | That not the point |
| 10 | Is that not the truth ? |
| 11 | Was that not the reason behind Kronweiser 's enquiry at Olivera 's ? |
| 12 | That not the obedience to rules , but the ‘ sense of honour ’ enables agents to ‘ engender all the practices consistent with the logic of challenge and riposte ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Is that not the job of our local police ? ’ |
| 14 | An enormous variety of reasons , and by and large not the sort of reasons that advertisers would hope that they did give . |
| 15 | Also , as West European capitalism filtered across Germany and set in motion the inevitable homogenisation of markets and language within the customs union , the reaction of the Polish subject people , who were after all not the primary , nor even secondary , beneficiaries of capitalist modes of production and the spread of profit , and who had behind them a different set of cultural and political orientations , was similar to that of the Germans . |
| 16 | I enjoyed watching Nick Faldo win The Open again ; well , I enjoyed the winning not the watching . |
| 17 | He attacks oralism as an additional depriving agent since it insists on having no further stimulation other than speech , when it is the language stimulation which is most important not the modality of stimulation . |
| 18 | No I mean just just life in general not the weather . |
| 19 | yeah but the new not the triangle it 's a bar . |
| 20 | Therefore let us consider next not the myth , but the reality of the eating habits of slim people . |