Example sentences of "[adj] and not [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in order to understand this and not to misunderstand terms , we 've got to unders the first thing we have to understand is what Darwin 's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is all about and the problem with this , and in some ways this is analogous to the problem with Freud , and I 'll be talking about this later , is that er when Darwin put forward his Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection in eighteen fifty nine it was confused and misunderstood because of the ideas of other people like Herbert Spencer and the so-called Social Darwinists , who coined slogans like , for example , survival of the fittest . |
| 2 | Certainly , employers were not propelled into joining associations since by the time they were required by legislation to bargain with unions US manufacturing was itself organised into sufficiently large company units for employers to be self-sufficient and not to require association bargaining ( Thomson , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what is his estimate of the number of people in the United Kingdom who are economically active , unemployed and not receiving unemployment benefit . |
| 4 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 5 | We wish to point out Darlington 's Tory candidate Michael Fallon said £22.4m had been ploughed into housing association grants for the town since 1979 and not housing authority grants as was stated . |
| 6 | He admitted drink-driving and not having insurance or a licence . |
| 7 | But they were busy and not paying attention except to their own work . |
| 8 | It was imperative too to keep cool and not allow things to get out of proportion . |
| 9 | If the rider drives the horse into a fence in such a way that he alters rhythm and balance , the horse will be forced onto his forehand and not given chance to jump off his hocks . |
| 10 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 11 | The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public . |