Example sentences of "[pron] not [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A local party may choose someone not on the list , but it must obtain approval from the national party for its choice . ) |
| 2 | Slowly , trying to ration the pain into manageable portions , I slid my hand out again , and then after a while , hardly believing it , I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also , and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow . |
| 3 | To report on my own experience , I have found a surprising number of English people outside the academic world who have lived with the Sonnets , have taken them into their own experience , can quote with ease ‘ To me , fair friend , you never can be old ’ , or ‘ Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day ? ’ , or ‘ When , in disgrace with Fortune and men 's eyes ’ , or ‘ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediment ’ . |
| 4 | Let me not to the marriage of true swine |
| 5 | He saw them not as a party of racial obsession but as a right-wing ginger group to keep the Conservative party on the proper lines . |
| 6 | For although his authority was supreme , he preferred to regard himself not as a dictator but as a partner , acting together with directors , players and everyone else in the club in a common purpose . |
| 7 | Adrian Jones of Laser … says its easy to sail … its not for the beginner but the club sailor will be able to handle it … he says it gives the opportunity for the normal man or girl in the street to sail together in a powerful boat … all the boats will be exactly the same … it means that the best sailor will win … |
| 8 | These days the term is used either as the first time you kick the ball AND its not on the ground , or even just that the ball is off the ground . |
| 9 | you sure its not in the things at the side ? , what at |
| 10 | mind its not in the saucer you 'll spill that down you |
| 11 | Why were you not with the children ? |
| 12 | His first words were a salute to the people of South Africa , to whom he declared : " I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you , the people . |
| 13 | I says what was wrong with you not on a corporation t er a corporation bus ? |
| 14 | Erm erm , A ten it the there 's various units and as a unit erm are the family and I felt that perhaps at that stage are you not on the family and what it 's about . |
| 15 | you not outside the prattle in precluded completely . |
| 16 | The Government found itself not in a majority of 87 but in a minority of 92 . |
| 17 | A second revolution may well be on the way in Nicaragua , but one not to the liking of the FSLN . |
| 18 | A second revolution may well be on the way in Nicaragua , but one not to the liking of the FSLN . |
| 19 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 20 | Are we not by the use of the methods of non-cooperation and civil disobedience , forcing a government to act contrary to its wishes ? |
| 21 | In Poland in 1982 , the best-off fifth of ‘ employee households ’ — anybody not on a farm or retired — got 31% of total ‘ employee ’ income . |
| 22 | It was not surprising that the police and the courts saw him not as a threat , scarcely even as a nuisance , but an eccentric example of English political freedom . |
| 23 | Were they not under the Cross ? |
| 24 | Although there was not one single reason why Harry might suddenly see her not as a sister or friend but as a woman he might fall in love with , deep down inside she still hoped that this unlikely miracle could occur . |
| 25 | This ill-informed comment might be laughed off were it not for a threat , prominently reported in the national press , that the Moi University medical students might not be eligible for full registration upon qualification because of their ‘ sub-standard ’ education . |
| 26 | This unusual system would give the scallop superb eyesight , were it not for a design fault . |
| 27 | All might still have been well were it not for the rupture-discs on the vents above the reactor . |
| 28 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 29 | A similar decision would have come from the White House by now were it not for the delay in finding a defence secretary . |
| 30 | However , I would not be here were it not for the Certificate which I shall outline briefly to you . |