Example sentences of "[noun sg] not [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also possible that acid base transport systems regulate cell proliferation not via changes in pH i but via secondary effects on intracellular Na or Cl - concentrations or cell volume . |
| 2 | Kirk was n't about to look a gift horse not with Peterborough so desperate for points . |
| 3 | The only Arab member of the anti-Iraq coalition not in attendance was Morocco . |
| 4 | Defendant not in possession |
| 5 | France now offered Germany a road to the future not as part of a German-Soviet alliance or as an American bastion in Europe , but as part of a European entity . |
| 6 | performance also improves if the evaluation stems partly from the employee and is a prelude not to recrimination , but to further goal setting . |
| 7 | And er some of the things that er all assignment details are sent to the to the estate agent not to home . |
| 8 | It is a shame that Leigh Delamere should be associated in the public mind not with Joseph Neeld and his eccentricities but the drab utilitarianism of the M4 services nearby . |
| 9 | When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son . |
| 10 | Nazism was the result not of inflation , but of the counter-inflationary measures that did so much damage . |
| 11 | The problems that have beset the project , however , are a result not of misjudgement or incompetence but of real difficulties associated with infrared astronomy , which have meant that IRAS has required certain aspects of space technology to be developed well beyond previous limits . |
| 12 | I shou 'd like a cloth one best if you please — I beg of your Sir to be so good as not to fail me this Cardinal by Wednesday , without fail , but let it be full yard long I beg , or else it will not do fail not on Wednesday , and in so doing you will very much oblige me . |
| 13 | We must consider the mandate not in party terms but in personal terms . |
| 14 | The wider impact of this decision was to define the scope of judicial review not in terms of the source of the power being exercised but rather by reference to the functions of judicial review and its appropriateness in particular cases . |
| 15 | In the second the press is restrained by its own professional Code of Practice not to misrepresent or mislead the public . |
| 16 | That question asks us to change our focus and consider our legal practice not in cross-section but over some stretch of time . |
| 17 | We discussed the concept of ‘ protection ’ as protection into emotion not from emotion . |
| 18 | Delta Airlines , the only other major US carrier not in play , also fell about a dollar . |
| 19 | As Jakobson put it , ‘ we are dealing in essence not with thought but with verbal facts ’ . |
| 20 | Money was the key not to happiness — they were too fine for that — but unashamedly the answer to material necessity . |
| 21 | Constant purchasing power ( CPP ) accounting uses nearly all the same conventions and standards as historical cost ( HC ) accounting , except that it measures profit or loss not in terms of money but against a yardstick of maintaining purchasing power capital . |
| 22 | IBM probably won the case not in Brussels but in Bonn , Paris and Rome . |
| 23 | Cheshire , Fifoot and Furmston ( 12th ed. ) , p. 93 say ‘ It will be observed that the plaintiff sued in Pinnel 's Case not in assumpsit but in debt , so that no question of consideration arose ’ But it was not the promise to pay the debt which was in issue but the promise not to enforce the debt . |
| 24 | The semantic remotivation characteristic of parody is accomplished in this instance not by exaggeration , but by the repetition of an ‘ equivalent ’ message in two different contexts . |
| 25 | On the other hand , it is argued ( E. R. Dew , 56 Lqw Society 's Gazette 365 ) that the most likely ‘ other reason ’ for which an agreement might be void or unenforceable , apart from containing a provision against application to the court , would be precisely the want of consideration if the agreement be not under seal ; the legislature , it is urged on this view , would not have made inroads on the fundamental requirement of valuable consideration in a contract not under seal , by a provision purporting to deal with the maintenance rights of a wife . |
| 26 | Ltd. v. Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd. ( below , p. 262 ) , continued : These citations demonstrate that while consideration remains a fundamental requirement before a contract not under seal can be enforced , the policy of the law in its search to do justice between the parties has developed considerably since the early nineteenth century when Stilk v. Myrick was decided by Lord Ellenborough C.J. In the late twentieth century I do not believe that the rigid approach to the concept of consideration to be found in Stilk v. Myrick is either necessary or desirable . |
| 27 | Prominent American bankers recently informed me that half of their commercial letters of credit provided for payment not against ocean bills of lading , but against freight forwarders ' cargo receipts . |
| 28 | One of the most important contributions to the Appeal last year was in kind not in money . |
| 29 | Another church suffered from a lack of adequate base not in terms of buildings , but of people . |
| 30 | It was a South African sjambok , a heavy whip nine feet long , the lash not of leather but of rhinoceros hide . |