Example sentences of "[not/n't] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No it 's not on at the moment , cos Paul |
| 2 | I have great sympathy with the needs of village schools but at the end ofg the day we have to consider the needs of the children and I have no doubt in my mind that trying to open a school in Brockweir is simply not on for the children . |
| 3 | ' ’ But not on to the other ? ’ |
| 4 | They are simple to install ; all that is required is that they be level from side to side , and with the lip of the lowest basin protruding sufficiently so that the water empties directly into the pool water and not on to the edging of the pool . |
| 5 | At the back of the fort they diverted the Jumna and laid in its place a main road so that the delicate Mughal pavilions look out , not on to the source of the Waters of Paradise , but on to Mahatma Gandhi Marg , the most noisy and polluted stretch of the Delhi Ring Road . |
| 6 | Rowbotham , meanwhile , had been sucked into the paper , but not on to the editorial board . |
| 7 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 8 | Oh no I might be able to actually no I 'll be able to come in James because I 'm not on until the evening , I can call in on my way to Merseyside . |
| 9 | And Dannii 's not in at the moment so we 'll just have some music now . |
| 10 | They were not along for the ride . |
| 11 | No one had mentioned how fast the trains were going : nor the precise time of impact , not down to the minute . |
| 12 | Cultural cosmopolitanism at Cyrene meant that its connections ran across to the rest of the Greek world , not down to the natives whom the Greek colonists had displaced or overrun . |
| 13 | To the courts , to the magistrates , remember that man , the judge , it 's all down to him and the jury , it 's not down to the police . |
| 14 | That 's not down to the area . |
| 15 | ‘ The mood in our camp is still good though , we 're certainly not down in the doldrums . |
| 16 | The ski resort as such is not down in the valley at all , would that it were ; rather , it is perched to devastatingly conspicuous effect on the side of a mountain to the west , up to which you can go either by car along a new road or by cable-car from the centre of Saint-Lary . |
| 17 | So you 're quite right , the elder men have a tremendous control , not over on the over-supply of women , but also over the younger men . |
| 18 | The court held that the theft was not over by the time the lady was tied up . |
| 19 | Above all , local educational standards were as yet not up to the demands put upon them by ‘ the Centre ’ . |
| 20 | The paintwork on the back of the bootlid looked decidedly patchy and certainly not up to the high standard on the rest of the car . |
| 21 | You see , it 's not up to the participants to come in the right mood . |
| 22 | There are a number of members who are not up to the job . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm afraid , ’ writes Sidney Pollack , ‘ I would find my imagination not up to the challenge of working with no limits whatsoever . ’ |
| 24 | Walking for money THOSE not up to the London Marathon can instead walk for charity in aid of Enterprise Neptune , the National Trust 's appeal to save unspoilt countryside . |
| 25 | As well as newspapers , and for those whose literacy level is not up to the language of a newspaper , comics for adults are widely available . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's just not up to the job . |
| 27 | Individually , we are not up to the task of trying to handle our own uniqueness . |
| 28 | It is not up to the villagers what programs will be organized . |
| 29 | If schools feel that the National Curriculum does not get to the heart of the matter , that it is a relatively superficial means to more important ends and has important omissions , then is it not up to the schools to work through the National Curriculum or add to it to secure their goals ? |
| 30 | Women are not given the opportunities because very often they are not up to the job . |