Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clause 15 of the partnership agreement stated : " in the event of a partnership being [ so determined ] the salaried partner undertakes not to practice within the practice area … " , the practice area being defined . |
| 2 | Thus , as we have noted above , agreement on norms ( as consequence of close-knit and stable social patterns ) results not in uniformity of usage within a community , but on agreement on a pattern of stable differentiation . |
| 3 | In the first instance , therefore , he focuses not on history as such but on the related problem of hermeneutics and historical understanding : history here becomes a problem of meaning and interpretation — ‘ the age already in the past is in fact constituted in every respect as a text ’ . |
| 4 | Explanation flows not from analysis of archaeological data but by reasoning on the basis of what seems most likely given the manner in which the data has been presented . |
| 5 | ‘ The EC should have controls by which it does not to business with countries which do not keep people to a minimum standard , he said . |
| 6 | Nuisances and abominations of all sorts are without scruple committed to the streets at any hour of the day of night , to await the morning visit of the scavenger to remove them : and happy indeed is it for the humble pedestrian if his eye and nose alone suffer from these ejectments ; happy indeed if he comes not in contact with them , as they make their unceremonious exit from window or door … |
| 7 | Salvation comes not from attachment to one 's own past , but from controlling it in favour of a higher goal . |
| 8 | Most of the relevant experimental evidence on this issue comes not from studies of latent inhibition but from investigations of conditioning itself . |
| 9 | The pleasure of parody 's irony comes not from humour in particular but from the degree of engagement of the reader in the intertextual ‘ bouncing ’ ( to use E. M. Forster 's famous term ) between complicity and distance . |
| 10 | The point should not be missed either that a great deal of capital for investment comes not from profits in industry but from the vast and growing capital of pension funds and other financial institutions relying on personal savings , which , as we shall show below , have shown an upward trend in recent years . |
| 11 | Moreover I agree with her that , if there is to be a right to recovery in respect of taxes exacted unlawfully by the revenue , it is irrelevant to consider whether the old rule barring recovery of money paid under mistake of law should be abolished , for that rule can have no application where the remedy arises not from error on the part of the taxpayer , but from the unlawful nature of the demand by the revenue . |