Example sentences of "[conj] [not/n't] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will apply whether or not an election to waive the exemption from charging VAT is in place on the property at the date the lease is granted . |
| 2 | Historians need to be convinced that prefixes like ‘ literary and linguistic ’ are an invitation and not a warning to keep out . |
| 3 | Er , a notice to complete is a , is a notice to complete and not a notice to withdraw . |
| 4 | He talked more readily about floating exchange rates than painted ships on painted oceans and he was as like to translate water , water everywhere and not a drop to drink into an elaborate example of the importance of adequate liquidity ratios . |
| 5 | However , it is important to remember that the tenant has a right and not a duty to remove tenant 's fixtures , unless the fixtures were affixed in breach of covenant ( Never-Stop Railway ( Wembley ) Ltd v British Empire Exhibition ( 1924 ) Inc [ 1926 ] 1 Ch 877 ) . |
| 6 | Using Circle K as an example he complained that since the lighting had been removed the corner was dull , dark and dangerous and not a place to walk late at night . |
| 7 | Affluence , affluence , and not a soul to see . |
| 8 | Autonomy involves the right and the capacity to exercise choice and to make reasoned judgements , and not the capacity to have those judgements invariably realised in action . |
| 9 | This view , though , has implications for the public sector where convention has it that it is the role of the politicians and not the officials to determine goals and take responsibility . |
| 10 | The couple insist that the pregnancy was an accident , and not an attempt to jump waiting list . |
| 11 | The future lay with minds of a different type — minds which saw that government was a matter of administration , and not an attempt to reproduce on earth a pattern of things laid up in Heaven . |
| 12 | Why is there a panel to sort this out , but not a panel to sort out crap refereeing decisions ? ? ? ? |
| 13 | ( c ) All children and young persons Local authorities are given a power but not a duty to provide accommodation to a wider group of children and young persons on welfare grounds . |
| 14 | When the White Paper appeared in May there was much to welcome , but not a lot to surprise . |
| 15 | Certainly there are 130 new routes on a number of good quality , though generally small , buttresses scattered here and there throughout the valley — but not a lot to take the breath away . |
| 16 | Water , water everywhere but not a drop to drink — because it 's all gone down the sink ! |
| 17 | He said : ‘ Labour 's devolution scheme would create a puppet parliament still under the thumb of the UK Treasury , with the power to legislate but not the money to implement . |
| 18 | Many cities and counties are little better placed , as each layer of government passes down the spending obligations but not the money to fulfil them . |
| 19 | The teaching has given the pupils the necessary facts but not the help to consolidate understanding in writing ( or indeed in talk ) , nor to master the compositional abilities to realise the understanding successfully . |
| 20 | For Opposition Members to suggest that we should have nuclear weapons but not the ability to test shows how little they understand the responsibility that lies with a nuclear power . |
| 21 | ‘ First Lady Francesca may be beautiful , she may have a sharp wit , but not the power to collect and convey secret information to some spy-master in Paris . |
| 22 | The trouble is that the public backs the law but not the means to make it work . |
| 23 | ‘ A dour man , ’ Buckingham observed , ‘ with bounding ambition but not the talent to match . ’ |
| 24 | the Purchaser to have the right to withhold part of the consideration at completion ( up to an agreed maximum ) but not the right to rescind ; or |
| 25 | Peng Zhen , at 90 the oldest of the old guard , has publicly backed the call for faster reform , but not the need to oppose Leftism . |