Example sentences of "[coord] [not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or not without a bit of help . |
| 2 | 205(1) ( xxvii ) " Term of years absolute " means a term of years ( taking effect either in possession or in reversion whether or not at a rent ) with or without impeachment for waste , subject or not to another legal estate , and either certain or liable to determination by notice , re-entry , operation of law , or by a provision for cesser on redemption , or in any other event ( other than the dropping of a life , or the determination of a determinable life interest ) ; but does not include any term of years determinable with life or lives or with the cesser of a determinable life interest , nor , if created after the commencement of this Act , a term of years which is not expressed to take |
| 3 | Whether or not as a result of the unease expressed at this meeting , two completely separate organizations were set up in its wake . |
| 4 | A variety of causes can lie behind the poor performer 's difficulty — low threshold to boredom , poor verbal facility in professional discussions with adults , inadequate job knowledge ( whether or not as a result of inadequate initial training ) or stress . |
| 5 | Provisions for obsolete and slow moving stock will be determined by the directors based on physical and recorded stock levels but the presence or not of a part number on an item of stock or the recording or not of the item on the stock records will not of itself be any be any form of guide as to obsolescence . |
| 6 | Aesthetes among the novices will by now be thoroughly irritable and complaining that gardens should have as much to do with the soul as with the necessity or not of a washing line or a barbecue pit . |
| 7 | This motivation arises from the individual 's choice to participate or not in an activity . |
| 8 | The firm is able to act within the FSA but unlike traditional lead advisers ( i.e. the merchant banks ) is governed by an Institute and not as a member of the Stock Exchange or Securities and Futures Authority . |
| 9 | It would mean you see me as a woman who happens to be in science , and not as a scientist . |
| 10 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Direct mail ’ ( often known as ‘ junk mail ’ ) , on the other hand , even though it came through the letter-box dressed up as a personal letter and not as a newspaper , arguably met the mass medium definition of reaching large numbers of people quickly and simultaneously . |
| 12 | ’ Becke 's revision reads : ‘ He dwelleth wyth his wyfe accordinge to knowledge , that taketh her as a necessarye healper , and not as a bonde servaunte or a bonde slave . |
| 13 | The remedy may change , or in acute injuries more than one remedy may be required , but in classical homoeopathy the remedies are administered one at a time and not as a mixture . |
| 14 | Having examined the parliamentary history of sections 61 and 63 of the Finance Act 1976 , it was held that the parliamentary intention was that in-house benefits should be assessed for income tax on the basis of marginal costs to the employer and not as a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; that this effect applied to the education of the children of teachers who were employees ; and that section 63 of the 1976 Act should be construed accordingly . |
| 15 | Well that shows us what a dramatist was lost to the English stage when Milton finally decided to write it as an epic and not as a play . |
| 16 | I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their support , and I hope that when my nest book is published they will feel confident enough to treat me just as a novelist and not as a problem . ’ |
| 17 | As he and the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West know , my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , in his personal capacity as Law Officer of the Crown and not as a Minister , came to the House to inform it how he intended to proceed . |
| 18 | ‘ You 're not going anywhere — not as a band and not as a person . ’ |
| 19 | Adorno preferred instead to see fetishism as part of an objective social totality and not as a characteristic of human subjectivity ( Frisby 1985 , pp. 233–72 ) . |
| 20 | A good relationship with one parent may , for example , be protective against the effects of mental illness in the other parent , if it enables the child to see the ill parent 's behaviour for what it is , and not as a rejection of the child or caused by the child . |
| 21 | A lecturer normally owns the copyright in any book or article he writes because he is primarily employed as a teacher and not as a writer of books and articles , even though his employer may encourage this . |
| 22 | Mr Smith said : ‘ People should enjoy , as a right of citizenship and not as a privilege of wealth , the opportunity of a good education , the chance to find a decent job with decent pay , the opportunity to buy or rent a decent home . |
| 23 | Where there is more than one , limitation is applied to them separately and not as a class ( s13 ) . |
| 24 | The gains would far outweigh the losses , provided Britain made full use of all her bargaining strength , and offered herself as an equal partner and not as a beggar . |
| 25 | Prime Minister Oscar de la Puente Raygada of the " national and emergency " government , installed following the presidential coup of April 5 [ see pp. 38846-47 ] , confirmed on June 27 that opposition parties had been invited " separately " , and not as a bloc , to participate in a dialogue on the country 's political future starting on June 30 . |
| 26 | the party reacted as an independent group and not as a partner , for the Lloyd George government was never a focus of loyalty for Unionists . |
| 27 | In the first case , democracy is conceived only as a means for selecting political leaders , and not as a regime in which there is some kind of direct rule by the people . |
| 28 | Doing fair copies of written work , infrequently and not as a punishment , can be useful ; but give it a real purpose . |
| 29 | How do we ensure that management is seen as a set of empowering activities and not as a control activity ? |
| 30 | As a rule , though , experience has shown that in the case of modules containing program code , the description lines should be used to describe the purpose of the code and not as a substitute for good in-line comments . |