Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it is not worth the salesperson 's time to let the buyer finish . |
| 2 | Ferguson senior added : ‘ All I ask is for the United fans to judge him on what he does on the pitch and not as the manager 's son . |
| 3 | Those of them which were not about the Englishman 's standard of living ( no peasant wooden shoes and no Irish potatoes ) were shared by many of the " middling people " ; these were the issues and they were more important than any lingering popular Jacobitism , although that sentiment certainly existed . |
| 4 | The other mark of consistency is that the report 's cover has never changed , at least not during the Diary 's existence . |
| 5 | Well , not for a king 's ransom would she return to the kitchen , even though she really could do with the drink . |
| 6 | Perhaps the jeweller she kept house for could read , but the things Sarah wanted to say were not for a stranger 's eyes . |
| 7 | It would be nice to dismiss this as a problem concerning a far-off country paying the price of its excess , if it was not for the West 's dependency on Japan 's past boom . |
| 8 | If Lord Chandos commissioned operas from Handel , it was not for the public 's enjoyment . |
| 9 | FASTER , quieter aircraft may be good for people — but not for the world 's natural fliers . |
| 10 | Unlike those of the Philistines his worst fears have been realized , and the cry he hears go up in the town is not for the ark 's arrival , but for its capture . |
| 11 | It was n't fair that a king should give up his throne for her , and not for the weaver 's daughter . |
| 12 | I have a rule that once I consider a portrait is finished , I will never make alterations ; after all , as the painter , you are painting a portrait for yourself and not for the sitter 's wife . ’ |
| 13 | I know of no fencing of the type you describe — and even if there were , you would be spending a lot of cash to install a feature that you plainly would not want , were it not for the heron 's attentions . |
| 14 | Not for the horse 's sake alone was it that carters would drive through a roadside pond , or choose to ford a stream rather than go over a bridge beside the ford . |
| 15 | In Freedom and Resentment ( 1974 , p. 19 ) Strawson talks not of a child 's emerging autonomy but of ‘ the progressive emergence of the child as a responsible being ’ . |
| 16 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 17 | If it had been used more often , politicians and broadcasters alike would have regarded that as evidence not of the system 's success but of its failure . |
| 18 | They form the basis if not of the Federalists ' philosophy , then at least of much of the present movement towards a Federalist structure for Europe . |
| 19 | In truth the adverse comments are criticisms , not of the Director 's contention that the powers created by the Act apply in the situation now under review , but of the policy and scope of the Act itself . |
| 20 | But I think it 's fair to say that the changes in the n nine , early nineteen eighties particularly those which gave the unions a predominant position in choosing the leader , were not of the unions ' making , certainly not of the G M B's making , as I know from personal experience at the time . |
| 21 | Then , using Lemma 3 , we have for general P , Q , R : unc Now because the few elements F of the first set which are not of the form unc are easily proved ( using the laws ) equivalent to ones that are , using the laws , e.g. unc By our assumption that the result holds for finite processes this in turn is equal to unc Since we are in the process of setting up powerful machinery for dealing with finite programs ( for example Theorem 1 ) there are advantages in only having to prove new laws for them . |
| 22 | So sex and the capacity to evolve rapidly is a property of the species , not of an individual erm and consequently once can visualize erm species selection being responsible for it 's evolution , so I do n't actually have much taste for species selection . |
| 23 | Two students in particular , Jane and Mark , embody many of the problems encountered by those students who were not amongst the department 's high-flyers . |
| 24 | But the punishment was still permitted in some fee-paying schools , provided that was not against the parents ' principles . |
| 25 | ‘ A woman 's love is not like a man 's . |
| 26 | In ( 79 ) it is not just the action itself which is asserted : ( 79 ) He had a singular red cap on — not like a sailor 's cap , but of a finer colour ; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged , and his anticipative death-knell rung , he was seen by all of us to wave it . |
| 27 | The year follows a cycle not unlike a Gardener 's Calendar . |
| 28 | An example is Hieracium ( Hawkweeds — yellow composites with flowers not unlike a dandelion 's ) ; the number of named ‘ species ’ in Britain runs into hundreds , but no two authorities agree on how many there should be . |
| 29 | Johnson tushed , and so the other clergyman , Mr Grant ( being well-bred ) , said the prayers , evoking a comment from their distinguished visitor who upbraided him just a little for not including the Lord 's Prayer . |
| 30 | Not , erm , not in the sense that there are in manufacturing because erm , simply from the fact that , in the scale of production , is n't really erm it 's not under the farmer 's influence as much as manufacturing production is under the erm , certain enterprise 's influence , because it 's er , risky |