Example sentences of "not [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They are not reasons for the impulses but causes that hark back to the primitive responses that we share with many animals ; yet qualified by noting that we , unlike dumb brutes , can reflect upon our impulses and resist them if we so decide , as happened in my example . |
2 | Contracts to sell the following are therefore not contracts for the sale of specific goods : ‘ a bottle of port from the seller 's stock ’ ; or , ‘ one of the seller 's current stock of 12 bottles of port ’ ; or , ‘ 12 of the seller 's stock of 13 bottles of port . ’ |
3 | In Reading Capital ( Althusser and Balibar 1970 ) , Althusser explores the development of Marx 's scientific exposition of historical materialism , stressing the point that the raw materials of knowledge production are not things , not essences of the material world , but concepts and abstractions that are ideological or scientific . |
4 | The ‘ tax timing option ’ is available for shares but not futures in the USA and UK . |
5 | Thus the programmes of study represent not tablets of the law handed down by Kenneth Baker , but compromises . |
6 | Are they not bulletins on the nastiness of mankind ? |
7 | Section 1(2) of the Act states that the following are not inventions for the purposes of the Act : ( a ) a discovery , scientific theory or mathematical method ; ( b ) a literary , dramatic , musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation whatsoever ; ( c ) a scheme , rule or method for performing any mental act , playing a game or doing business , or a program for a computer ; ( d ) the presentation of information ; but the foregoing provision shall prevent anything from being treated as an invention for the purposes of this Act only to the extent that a patent or application for a patent relates to that thing as such ( emphasis added ) |
8 | The pair are not first-timers to the MPA competition , having won a first prize in the portrait section last year . |
9 | They are not subjects in the decisions affecting their bodies . |
10 | The ballet could have been entered under the title of demi- caractère , but those people were not figments of the imagination . |
11 | Like the publishing industry , the academic community is rapidly coming to realise that its stock in hand is not words on the page , but information , independent of its physical realisation . |
12 | Secondly , it was emphasised that ex hypothesi the responsible third parties — and in particular the solicitors in this case — were not parties to the transaction and received nothing under it . |
13 | Diplock LJ said " A contract in restraint of trade is one in which a party ( the covenantor ) agrees with any other party ( the covenantee ) to restrict his liberty in the future to carry on trade with other persons not parties to the contract in such manner as he chooses " . |
14 | ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . |
15 | In Cheall v. Association of Professional Executive Clerical and Computer Staff [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 180 , 190 , Lord Diplock said : ‘ Decisions that resolve disputes between the parties to them , whether by litigation or some other adversarial dispute-resolving process , often have consequences which affect persons who are not parties to the dispute ; but the legal concept of natural justice has never been extended to give such persons as well as the parties themselves rights to be heard by the decision-making tribunal before the decision is reached . ’ |
16 | The basis of these decisions was that strikes would result in unlawful ‘ secondary ’ action involving employers who were not parties to the dispute . |
17 | They do not become parties to the treaty but to the Protocol , while the treaty parties are not parties to the Protocol . |
18 | Note 62/3/2 in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 explains that rule 3(2) only applies to a right of a party to recover costs ‘ from any other party to the proceedings ’ and will not apply to the right of a mortgagee to retain costs out of a mortgaged property on redemption or to any other contractual right to costs out of a fund or from persons who are not parties to the proceedings . |
19 | In agreement with the Court of Appeal , I do not consider that the order in this case leaves room for the extension to persons who are not parties of the doctrine expounded in Attorney-General v. Times Newspapers Ltd. [ 1992 ] 1 A.C. 191 . |
20 | One is that the Zionists are not Marxists like the IRA . |
21 | Public choice analysis would suggest that local government expenditure may be in danger of ‘ excessive growth ’ if tax perceptibility and accountability are not characteristics of the tax system ( see chapter 14 ) . |
22 | we 're not dossers on the street , we 're ordinary people . |
23 | These need to be recognised in order to ensure there are not gaps in the support offered , or needless duplication . |
24 | The direct intervention of Soviet and allied forces , as in Angola ( within a year of Grechko 's pronouncement ) and , subsequently , in Ethiopia and Afghanistan , are not departures from the norms of peaceful coexistence . |
25 | Questions about trumping and revoking are not questions about experiences — or , if they are , they are psychological questions , not questions about the concepts of trumping and revoking . |
26 | In testimony before a court that will eventually rule on whether or not paintings from the Barnes Collection will go on tour for the first time , a conservator argued that several of the Barnes masterpieces should not tour under any circumstances . |
27 | They were not puppets like the garden-master . |
28 | The new electronic media of the 1980s , such as cable , satellite TV and video recorders , were not variations in the product reaching the audience , as were those changes in the press . |
29 | Sixthly , although a court may hesitate to order production by those not officers of the company whose administrators apply for the documents , there is no embargo in principle against ordering ‘ third parties ’ to produce documents . |
30 | In these circumstances the courts will find that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence but not volens to the risk ( Owens v Brimmell [ 1977 ] QB 859 ) . |