Example sentences of "[not/n't] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I 'll do it by process of elimination ; find out what I 'm not bit by bit until I know who I am . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So it 's not kind of country cottage style . |
| 4 | From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Is not dread of thirst when your well is full , the thirst that is unquenchable ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That 's that 's that 's not that 's not part of part of our er our proposal . |
| 12 | Note that the operations performed in this algorithm are not part of mathematics . |
| 13 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
| 14 | And so you have then a political system in which you , which you have a presidency er faced by a powerful legislature , a president who is not part of legislature but who has to lead the legislature without any significant controls over it a very difficult and demanding task . |
| 15 | It was also indirect in respect of role distance — they were ‘ designers ’ , not part of hospital life . |
| 16 | Nevertheless there is an increasing tendency for such workers to regard this function as a separate job , not part of food production or handling , to be carried out by other unskilled people . |
| 17 | Invariably , this is ordinary paint and not protection against rotting . |
| 18 | She was calm and did not rail in spite , that night , as they waited for the island 's noises to change to the night 's flutings and clicks and sighs . |
| 19 | Failure to observe the requirements laid down in the byelaws usually leads to a fine whether or not prejudice to health or a nuisance occurs . |
| 20 | it is against freedom of trade and natural justice to subject one group of solicitors to extra rules because they do not practice in partnership ; |
| 21 | One is that , if there is going to be a high level of unemployment because productivity is rising faster than output , this means that the cost of goods and services is falling fast and either consumer demand is not increasing fast enough or industry can not gear up production fast enough to create the demanded extra output . |
| 22 | The stitches are always transferred from back to front , not side to side , so I have never encountered any problem with bias knitting . |
| 23 | Yet panels have to be one above the other , not side by side . |
| 24 | In an effort to recoup some of his lost prestige , he attempted to do by negotiation what he dared not attempt by force and so conceived a plan for the purchase by France of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , the acquisition of which would strengthen France 's eastern frontier . |
| 25 | The Lords in MPC v Caldwell [ 1982 ] AC 341 did not advert to deception offences when determining the law of objective recklessness . |
| 26 | As mirror of reality , not Monument to Creativity . |
| 27 | Volumes were selected from the period 1982–92 and only original articles were eligible for analysis ( including letters but not correspondence in Nature ) . |
| 28 | It is important to note that , for historical reasons , the tort is committed against possession and not ownership of land . |
| 29 | ‘ It is not sport for sport 's sake , ’ says Mr Hawkins , who is an ex-Harlem-Globetrotter , ‘ but a way of imposing a structure on undisciplined lives : in a sports team they turn up regularly , on time , in uniform , and train hard . |
| 30 | It is not management by consensus by any means , ’ says one former colleague . |