Example sentences of "[not/n't] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These people were to be their ‘ lay ’ representatives , as , of course , the Panel Hearings are not Courts of Law , and lawyers as such have no role there .
2 The report of the committee enunciated that whereas tribunals were not courts of law , neither were they appendages of government departments .
3 As I have said they are not cases of estoppel in the strict sense .
4 Perhaps I 'll do it by process of elimination ; find out what I 'm not bit by bit until I know who I am . ’
5 But supposing we had to make cuts all the same , supposing we just were forced into it , would you suggest that the best idea would be to close down one or two universities , not Sussex of course but one or two of the other universities ?
6 Struggling throughout his life with his own infirmity of will , and with a haunting sense that he was like some great tree possessing ‘ pith within the Trunk , not heart of Wood ’ , he was consistently drawn , for good and ill , to those possessing stronger personalities than his own .
7 There are certain other contracts which are not contracts of sale of goods but which are analogous contracts because the ownership of goods passes under them , e.g. contracts of exchange and barter and contracts for labour and materials supplied ( see Chapter 8 above ) .
8 So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers .
9 Have not calls for action by organisations such as the Society for Black Lawyers been met by Government intransigence ?
10 On the analogy of arbitration law , partiality would have to be actual bias , and not conflicts of interest or apparent lack of independence : see Mustill and Boyd , p249 .
11 So it 's not kind of country cottage style .
12 The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director .
13 And so , the media was not kind after Sharon 's slaughter by the Manson disciples , hence Nicholson 's remark about Sharon having been murdered in the newspapers .
14 ‘ They are innovative products at the forefront of market trends , not replicas of brand leading lines .
15 From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace .
16 That made him both easier to think about ( for were there not rules about Captors ?
17 But it is not policies on Europe which will decide Jim 's vote but the ability of party leaders to get the best deal for Britain from the Continent .
18 When talking about fitness , I mean the basic amount of exercise necessary to keep our bodies in working order , not activities like athletics , weight-lifting , assault courses or long-distance running .
19 The words used by the testator did not set up a trust , for they represented not testation with respect to his own property ( which would , of course , have been legitimate ) but an attempt to deprive one of his daughters of her right to free testation .
20 Ramsey asked the pointed question whether William Temple would have been able to write if he had been Bishop of London and not Archbishop of York .
21 Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation .
22 If you are not sure about the right way to connect something in a mains power supply circuit , do not resort to trial and error .
23 His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party .
24 Even in the Petitioners case , where less emphasis is placed upon status , the Court does not resort to treaty arguments and indeed could not do so , for there was no treaty right of petition .
25 They are not times for conflict and confrontation but opportunities for co-operation and celebration .
26 But Locke 's real target in Book 1 is not innateness of ideas , but innateness of knowledge .
27 Is not dread of thirst when your well is full , the thirst that is unquenchable ?
28 On such a view , in so far as pragmatics is concerned with context , it can be claimed that by definition pragmatics is not part of competence , and thus not within the scope of grammatical descriptions .
29 That 's that 's that 's not that 's not part of part of our er our proposal .
30 That the accounts department is not part of B S 5750 except in its relationship with er , researchers .
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