Example sentences of "[vb past] not in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those four orientations , listed not in the order provided by Dahl but in the order I believe to be most significant to an understanding to British political culture , are toward ( 1 ) problem-solving , ( 2 ) the political system , ( 3 ) cooperation and individuality , and ( 4 ) other people . |
| 2 | Most of the provisions of the Housing Act 1988 relating to private sector renting apply equally to housing associations , but the most important change relating to housing associations came not in the Act but by ministerial decision . |
| 3 | It would be an ironical stroke if investigations into the affair resulted not in the discovery of those happenings in which they had been guilty but only in those where they had been blameless . |
| 4 | The main significance of the circle lay not in the views of its members but in the viciousness of the government 's response to them . |
| 5 | Its importance within the city lay not in the speed of its rise — which was hardly spectacular — nor in its violence — for it could only do what Berlin sanctioned , but rather in the social and national spirit it fostered within the community . |
| 6 | The question of homage , on the contrary , was another matter : its significance lay not in the amount of service which it might subsequently furnish to the kings of France , but in the principle which it enshrined . |
| 7 | These final exchanges were to have taken place at the border town of Mundhiriya from March 14 , but did not in the event go ahead as scheduled . |
| 8 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Newman however relied on certain additional points which had apparently been raised by him before the Divisional Court , but which the court did not in the circumstances find it necessary to consider in its judgment . |
| 9 | It was held that the exemption clause did not in the circumstances pass the test of reasonableness and that therefore their sellers could not rely upon it to limit their liability . |
| 10 | Those who knew Hebrew took significantly less time to sort the pack than those who did not in the condition that required symbols having the same name to be put together . |
| 11 | Even with delays while the Office of Fair Trading considered whether to refer these takeovers to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( it did not in the end ) the whole process had taken only until the spring of 1991 . |
| 12 | They did not in the measures involving the five guillotines which I introduced . |
| 13 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 14 | Anti-immigrant feeling had not in the past been strong in Belgium , although in May young north African immigrants had rioted in Brussels , prompting the government to reinforce its policy of integrating immigrants [ ibid . ] . |
| 15 | The customer was the original owner and provided he had not in the interim lost his ownership , he transferred that ownership to X. However , the court upheld the finance company 's claim that the customer had by the doctrine of estoppel lost his ownership to the finance company . |