Example sentences of "[noun] not [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Muse sits on a rock , and Apollo before her stands not on the base-line but on an irregular indication of ground just clear of it . |
| 2 | Unbelievable , I mean I 've always looked upon the horse as a nice horse not as the winner of an Arkle . |
| 3 | Even when subjects are selected for experiment not on the basis of extreme scores in the attribute being studied but on the scores of some correlated attribute , the same problem can arise . |
| 4 | Naylor Massingham , she saw , had his eyes not on the file under discussion , but on her . |
| 5 | A representative applicant is one who comes to court not to protect his , her or its own interests but to represent the interests of other parties not before the court . |
| 6 | Evidently the present is in some respects not unlike the past . |
| 7 | PR departments of advertising agencies , which can vary from a small press office handling product publicity to augment an advertising campaign , to a large comprehensive PR department not unlike the agency setup itself . |
| 8 | This was a result not of the Bill or of the war but of a 1938 decision whose effect was delayed by the outbreak of war . |
| 9 | Reference to the both Taskopruzade 's original and Mecdi 's translation , makes it difficult to understand how such confusion has arisen ; for although relatively few facts are given there about Abdulkerim , and although it is impossible to specify with any assurance the precise dates of his Muftilik , one thing at least is clearly stated : that Abdulkerim was Mufti not in the time of Bayezid II ( 886–918/1481–1512 ) but in the time of Mehmed II ( 855–86/1451–81 ) . |
| 10 | This writer remembers one Good Friday sermon in an Anglican parish church in which the preacher referred to the crucifixion not as the self-offering of God 's only Son and an event unique in man 's history but as an example of the ‘ little man ’ being maltreated by the all-powerful state . |
| 11 | At break I was on duty in the corridor telling people to get out and go around to the canteen not through the school . |
| 12 | And er were there any other reasons not on the card ? |
| 13 | In the course of time , however , the monotheistic principle began to assert itself , and for a complex of reasons not within the scope of this essay , the god Yahweh was elevated to a position of supremacy over all other deities . |
| 14 | Gilbert would probably have done better to base his case not on the child 's moral sense , which was largely that imposed by adults , but rather on the child 's tendency to invest violence with fantasy . |
| 15 | This case is therefore best considered as an instance not of the role of intention in trusts , but of the general role it could play in the interpretation of testamentary dispositions . |
| 16 | However , the significance of the above cases is not confined to activities not in the nature of commercial ventures or to the past or to contracting out by government . |
| 17 | Ordinary people who have been awarded ‘ less important ’ decorations like the British Empire Medal may well find it pinned on their chest not by the Queen but a lord lieutenant in the form of a retired colonel or minor baronet . |
| 18 | Of course it 's possible that he made other calls not in the line of business . ’ |
| 19 | decisions of those courts not within the hierarchy of the English legal system . |
| 20 | He answered prayer not in the way I sought , Nor in the way that I thought he ought , But in his own good way , and I could see , He answered in the fashion best for me . |
| 21 | It seeks the origins of the present not in the past which is temporally distant , but in external contacts which are spatially remote . |
| 22 | You should have told him that we pay for it by the gallon not by the year ! |
| 23 | In Nambudiri eyes these women were concubines ; therefore the children belonged to the mother 's caste not to the father 's caste . |
| 24 | Not only is Jesus the only saviour but he 's also a presence saviour not for the future or the passed , but he is there now and he says now , Paul to the Corinthians now is the acceptable time , now is the day of salvation , not to be put off , not to wait until you 're older until this is settled and till that 's done and you 've had this experience or that experience , now is the accepted time , he is the presence saviour , he is not a saviour for you tomorrow , you do n't know what tomorrow will bring but he is a saviour for the present for now , also he is a complete saviour in Hebrews seven twenty five he is able to save forever , those who draw near to God since he always lives to make intercession for them and finally not only is he a complete saviour , but he will actually save you , not the person beside you , do n't worry about that he will actually save you , there in Romans chapter ten , thirteen , for whoever , for whoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved and so the invitation 's to you and it 's to me , it 's to us as individuals , are there a few that 's gon na be saved . |
| 25 | Any disregard of this may provide the minority shareholders with a claim under s459 Companies Act 1985 , under which they may complain against resolutions of the company which are for the benefit not of the company as a whole , but of the majority shareholders alone . |
| 26 | We need a conception of ourselves in the universe not as the master species but as the servant species : as the one being given responsibility for the whole and for the good of the whole . |
| 27 | As the psychoanalyst , or therapist , delves into the unconscious of his or her patients , he will come up against phylogenetic material , memory traces of the experiences not of the patient , but of earlier generations of humanity . |
| 28 | Wollaton is the most extraordinary of his houses , but it suffers from an over-abundance of motifs not unlike the over-abundance which mars much Elizabethan literature . |
| 29 | I say a reasonably just society , rather than a reasonably just law , for consent to obey the law expresses an attitude not to the law but to the society whose law it is . |
| 30 | He points out that when John uses that term in a negative sense it is with ‘ specific reference not to the whole of culture , but to a particular use of that culture by the forces of evil . ’ |