Example sentences of "[not/n't] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lawson v Rolfe ( 1969 ) 46 TC 199 , it was held that stock dividends paid under a particular provision in the law of California were not income in the hands of a life tenant of an American will trust . |
| 2 | It was not income from the interest under the trust ( which would have been a foreign possession regardless of the underlying sources ) . |
| 3 | The weather was not kind to the competitors in 1987 , being very wet and stormy . |
| 4 | The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets . |
| 5 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 6 | The family can find forgiveness but not comprehension of a crime which it will take weeks to clear up . |
| 7 | The essential difference between this offence and larceny is that in larceny the victim does not part with the ownership but in obtaining by false pretences he does . |
| 8 | The authors argue that this too was an act of desperation , not part of a grand design ; and that he construed his famous interview with the American ambassador , April Glaspie , as a ‘ green light ’ . |
| 9 | The immediate sense-experiences with which his method begins are not part of a systematic record , and are very quickly left behind as one digs below their surface . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , even though having angles equal to two right angles is not part of a triangle 's essence , it is because it is a three-sided plane figure that it has them . |
| 11 | These restrictions show that the subjective element is merely preparing the ground for the objective element ; it is not part of a broader defence of emotional pressure of the kind discussed in Chapter 6.5(c) above . |
| 12 | Although intelligence in a horse , or lack of it , is also an inherited characteristic , it is not part of a horse 's temperament . |
| 13 | Smoothing aims to remove any upward or downward movement in the series that is not part of a sustained trend . |
| 14 | But , they argue , the shooting of the Jews was a reprisal , a ‘ spontaneous criminal reaction , spectacular , ferocious … ’ but ‘ relatively improvised ’ and therefore not part of a ‘ concerted plan ’ . |
| 15 | No , it 's not part of a campaign of cleanliness in the school . |
| 16 | But local department stores or specialist shops which were not part of a chain were used less by credit buyers than cash buyers , whereas fuel board showrooms were used more . |
| 17 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 18 | The geophysical models of the East Grampian Younger Basic intrusions imply they were not part of a single large layered basic/ultrabasic intrusive sheet . |
| 19 | ‘ It is not part of a doctor 's work to become involved in brawls , ’ he said firmly . |
| 20 | If you are not part of a discussion group you can still represent your parish at the Diocesan Assembly and become involved in local and Diocesan events that develop from there . |
| 21 | Moreover , since the 1788 petitions were not part of a movement pursuing significant change in the political system or attacking the range of government policy , the application of humanitarian and general interest criteria to a question of trade probably appeared relatively innocuous to those who were not directly involved . |
| 22 | Greece 's natural interest in Europe , like Britain 's , is to be part of a wealth-creating economic confederation , but not part of a political union in which it could get out-voted on something it considered vital . |
| 23 | The following are examples of the three congruence variants : finger is a congruent meronym of hand ; doctor is a hypo-converse of patient , and patient a super-converse of doctor , because , for instance , dentists also have patients ; index is a semi-meronym of book , because there are books without indexes , and indexes which are not part of a book . |
| 24 | His little castle is not part of a larger world , but exists in spite of it and is defined against it . |
| 25 | To Napoleon , the reduction of the monasteries and the abolition of the Inquisition were not part of a plan to reform and regenerate Spain but improvised responses to financial necessity and to the French idée fixe that rebellion was the work of monks . |
| 26 | Unlike civil servants , local authority employees are not part of a single unified service : each council employs its own staff . |
| 27 | This conception of the signifier bears only a vestige of its Saussurean ancestry , for there is nothing formalist about it and it is not part of a structural attempt to outline the basic grammar of any system . |
| 28 | The report is not part of a plot hatched by the Opposition to make the Government look bad . |
| 29 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 30 | The court ruled that there was sufficient evidence for a sixth charge , of complicity in the execution of seven Jewish hostages in 1944 , but that this was not a crime against humanity since it was not part of a " methodical extermination plan " , and that it therefore fell under a 20-year statute of limitations for the prosecution of " ordinary " war crimes . |