Example sentences of "[coord] not [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is no use ’ , she stated ‘ letting the poor come and go as they think , to be helped or not as the charitable choose . ’ |
| 2 | Do you think that they erm were an asset or or or not to the actual community when they ac I mean erm looking at how things were in prior to the flats being built and and |
| 3 | This distinction was roughly mirrored in a major division in Europe 's economic geography ( which was also , outside England , one between those directly affected or not by the French Revolution and the changes it brought ) . |
| 4 | … the obligation [ entails ] two principal elements ; first , the existence of a relationship giving access , directly or indirectly , to information intended to be available only for a corporate purpose and not for the personal benefit of anyone , and second , the inherent , unfairness involved where a party takes advantage of such information knowing it is unavailable to those with whom he is dealing . |
| 5 | Reduction of the hours worked for the full-time employees and not for the part-time employees would result in a financial advantage for the full-time employees . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend makes the point : it is his local authority 's duty to comply with the 1968 Act and not for the chief constable to bend section 39 of the 1986 Act . |
| 7 | Both were convicted and sentenced to hang , ironically for a mass of mundane crimes , and not for the Royal Mail robbery that had made them so famous . |
| 8 | Both restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives in sentences such as ( 3 ) are alike in that they instantiate the P in : ( 6 ) [ P E ] The difference between the two possibilities is solely that , in cases of non-restriction , the speaker is aware that the identification carried out by the noun phrase as a whole is the same as it would be if the adjective ( limiting ourselves to adjectival instances ) were not present ; in essence , we have the situation as in ( 7 ) ( where the sign =i obviously stands for equality on the parameter of identification , and not for the intensional relation of equation ) : ( 7 ) In practice , the situation is almost always somewhat more complicated in English , because there will nearly always be a determiner ; thus the non-restrictive status of the adjective in the subject phrase of ( 8 ) can be represented by the formula ( 9 ) , with Pb as the adjectival property and Pc as the property inherent in the noun ( while Pa represents the word this ) : ( 8 ) this Christian Pope committed most unchristian acts ( 9 ) Nevertheless , the presence of other elements in a noun phrase beside the non-restrictive adjective and the noun itself in no way alters the principle involved . |
| 9 | And not for the faint-hearted … serious training for the big raft race . |
| 10 | What formula are we going to find to get the ordinary people of Ulster to vote on real issues which concern them and not on the entrenched sectarian issues into which we are brainwashed . |
| 11 | ‘ But even if you knew beforehand who was going to get — say — the fifth plate , how could you put poison on it and not on the other plates ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The burden of the evidence rests on the other side to disprove whatever it is , and not on the other side to disprove the other side 's evidence . |
| 13 | The systems approach focuses on the organisation as a whole and is concerned with the performance of the organisation and not on the specific requirements of any one department or application . |
| 14 | In my judgment there can be no doubt that , if Parliamentary privilege does not prohibit references to Hansard , the Parliamentary history shows that Parliament passed the legislation on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 of the Act was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concessionary education for teachers ' children , on the marginal cost to the employer and not on the average cost . |
| 15 | Like Egon Zehnder , fees are charged on the basis of time and difficulty of each assignment , and not on the successful candidate 's salary ; a minimum fee of £20000 is quoted . |
| 16 | On occasions accounting has received a ‘ bad press ’ from rival disciplines for focusing too much on detailed costs and not on the key strategic issues . |
| 17 | The reason this one survived is because it travelled on the tour bus and not on the chartered plane , which crashed after take-off from Mason City airport in Iowa , while taking Holly , the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens to a gig in Moorhead , Minnesota . |
| 18 | The decision to offer a post should be based on the candidate 's suitability to undertake the role on offer and not on the domestic circumstances which prevail . |
| 19 | Emphasis should be — and surely was intended to be — on the fact of breakdown , and not on the formal technicalities of establishing such breakdown . |
| 20 | We have used here a mathematical theorem stating that the line integral of a gradient depends only on the end-points and not on the connecting path . |
| 21 | If you use only part of your agreed overdraft , you will pay interest only on the sum you have actually borrowed and not on the full amount agreed . |
| 22 | The relevance of these animal models is difficult to assess , as by using carcinogens such as 1,2 dimethylhydrazine ( DMH ) they concentrate on the final development of the tumour and not on the previous initiating stages of this long multistage process . |
| 23 | the effective supplier and not the ostensible supplier shall be treated for the purposes of this Article as supplying the article or substance to the customer , and any duty imposed by this Article on suppliers shall accordingly fall on the effective supplier and not on the ostensible supplier . ’ |
| 24 | The dashed and dotted curves do not intersect , which makes it clear that the rate of deterioration caused by adding records of average activity to an access frequency loaded file is only dependent on the starting point of the random load , and not on the particular file access situation , such as 90/10 , 85/25 , etc . |
| 25 | We seem to be more concerned with the job in hand , i e , our own team er er and not with the other teams , but if they 're struggling then do offer to give them help . |
| 26 | The dependency ratios in Table I.1 for 1961 and 1979 would be even greater if those aged 14–15 were included with the children and not with the working population . |
| 27 | However , nearly all the studies deal with the structure of the system of storing meaning or of the language itself and not with the dynamic processes of thinking and remembering . |
| 28 | Reynolds had come across two others like it in all respects , but not in the same folder , and not with the incriminating paragraph ; that too was odd , in retrospect . |
| 29 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 30 | Since our concern here has been exclusively with assessment of Grant Related Expenditure and not with the subsequent use ( and possible misuse ) of these estimates in the actual allocations of money to Local Authorities , we shall concentrate on instability of the GRE . |