Example sentences of "[noun sg] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only Arab member of the anti-Iraq coalition not in attendance was Morocco . |
| 2 | Defendant not in possession |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | performance also improves if the evaluation stems partly from the employee and is a prelude not to recrimination , but to further goal setting . |
| 5 | And er some of the things that er all assignment details are sent to the to the estate agent not to home . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nazism was the result not of inflation , but of the counter-inflationary measures that did so much damage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We must consider the mandate not in party terms but in personal terms . |
| 10 | In the second the press is restrained by its own professional Code of Practice not to misrepresent or mislead the public . |
| 11 | That question asks us to change our focus and consider our legal practice not in cross-section but over some stretch of time . |
| 12 | We discussed the concept of ‘ protection ’ as protection into emotion not from emotion . |
| 13 | Delta Airlines , the only other major US carrier not in play , also fell about a dollar . |
| 14 | As Jakobson put it , ‘ we are dealing in essence not with thought but with verbal facts ’ . |
| 15 | Money was the key not to happiness — they were too fine for that — but unashamedly the answer to material necessity . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One of the most important contributions to the Appeal last year was in kind not in money . |
| 22 | It was a South African sjambok , a heavy whip nine feet long , the lash not of leather but of rhinoceros hide . |
| 23 | With regard to a description not by reference , the Keeper , in order to make ‘ public and patent to his hienes lieges ’ ( 1617 Act , c 16 ) , is entitled to be provided with a common law description which at a minimum should be the postal address of the property ( eg , ‘ subjects 3 High Street , Ayr ’ ) or , in the case of flatted property , the identification of the particular house ( eg , ‘ the north house on the first flat above the street flat 3 High Street , Ayr ’ ) — and whether or not the Keeper really likes such minimum descriptions he has no option but to accept them ! |
| 24 | I went to the cinema not for entertainment , but for cinematography . |
| 25 | 16 to 17 , doing a full-time further education course not above A-level or equivalent standard £20.80 |
| 26 | 18 and over , doing a full-time further education course not above A-level or equivalent standard £27.40 |
| 27 | Whether she is consciously twisting logic , or just , poor girl , confused , I 'm not sure , but at the end it 's quite clear ‘ So dear I love them that with him all deaths I could endure , without him live no life ’ , that she 's got into a world of fantasy because the one thing that is of course not in question is that Adam should die and that she should live on , which appears to be what she 's referring to here . |
| 28 | He added : " We will have to live with this tragedy painfully , but of course not in despair . " |
| 29 | Here he looked very earnest and commented , ‘ of course not by instruction or order but by suggestion ’ . |
| 30 | Child protection registers first came into being in the 1970s and owe their existence not to statute but to a series of departmental circulars . |