Example sentences of "[noun pl] not [prep] the [noun] " 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 | Naylor Massingham , she saw , had his eyes not on the file under discussion , but on her . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Evidently the present is in some respects not unlike the past . |
| 5 | Operational records are described as giving day-to-day information such as lists of books issued to each user or listings giving the whereabouts of books not on the shelves . |
| 6 | And er were there any other reasons not on the card ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Of course it 's possible that he made other calls not in the line of business . ’ |
| 10 | decisions of those courts not within the hierarchy of the English legal system . |
| 11 | ‘ DBS was planned in terms of an economic competition with other European or American projects rather than as part of a communications policy : the problem was approached with a concern with the conduits not with the programmes , with the technologies involved , not with the services . |
| 12 | OECD member countries not in the DAC provided an estimated $400 million in ODA in 1989 , compared with $380 million in 1988 ( of which $240 million from Spain ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A secondary objective will be to identify companies not in the business sector but which may have an acquisition strategy to diversify into that sector . |
| 16 | He did so in order that the just requirement set out in God 's law might be fulfilled in us who live our lives not after the principle of self-effort but in the power of the Spirit . |
| 17 | From time immemorial children have raised playthings , particularly dolls , to a place in their lives not unlike the place that ‘ gods ’ occupy in some aspects of the lives of adults . |
| 18 | All the glamour of its life springs not from the father but from the Godless world . |
| 19 | The seller 's skill and judgment were relied upon as to matters not within the buyer 's specification . |
| 20 | The British used the four ‘ freedoms ’ agreed at the Commonwealth meeting in October 1943 as the basis for discussion , but refused to consider a US proposal for a fifth freedom : the right to pick up passengers , mail , and freight at intermediate stops not in the country of origin of the airline or its ultimate destination . |
| 21 | If you find one on your travels not on the map , play safe and leave it alone . |
| 22 | As the pope strapped the sword round the emperor 's waist , he reminded the emperor that the saints had conquered kingdoms not by the sword but by faith . |
| 23 | Lindblom argues that policy-making under incrementalism takes the form of ‘ partisan mutual adjustment ’ , referring to the practice of making choices among different alternatives not on the basis of a particularly rigourous evaluation of the ‘ best ’ means to achieve a desired ‘ goal ’ . |
| 24 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 25 | They received their powers not from the king-duke but from the seneschal of Aquitaine , as did the king-duke 's proctors in the Paris Parlement . |
| 26 | Suppliers not on the list of recognised contractors can not submit tenders for the order . |
| 27 | Consequently , people concentrate on how they do things not on the end results . |
| 28 | In the light of paragraph ( b ) the seller having a monopoly will be more likely to succeed if the buyer had been offered the chance of buying the goods , perhaps at a slightly higher price , on terms not including the exemption clause . |
| 29 | They tend to conclude their account with the formation of the National Government , giving ensuing events — in particular , the decision of the National Government to go to the country as a National Government — fairly perfunctory treatment ; and this despite the fact that , as Ball rightly claims , ‘ The radical restructuring of British politics after 1931 lies not in the events of 13–28 August , but in the changing attitudes within the National Government during September and October 1931 . ' |
| 30 | The cause after all lies not in the nature of the test but in the context of its use , and if the pay of the teachers ( or more likely the viability of the school ) depends on the results , there will be a temptation to massage the outcome . |