Example sentences of "not [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No it 's not on at the moment , cos Paul |
| 2 | I have great sympathy with the needs of village schools but at the end ofg the day we have to consider the needs of the children and I have no doubt in my mind that trying to open a school in Brockweir is simply not on for the children . |
| 3 | ' ’ But not on to the other ? ’ |
| 4 | At the back of the fort they diverted the Jumna and laid in its place a main road so that the delicate Mughal pavilions look out , not on to the source of the Waters of Paradise , but on to Mahatma Gandhi Marg , the most noisy and polluted stretch of the Delhi Ring Road . |
| 5 | They are simple to install ; all that is required is that they be level from side to side , and with the lip of the lowest basin protruding sufficiently so that the water empties directly into the pool water and not on to the edging of the pool . |
| 6 | One of the first houses in the goldfields was built to welcome them and the two children ; the roof was not on by the time they arrived but many miners joined in helping to complete it , the sight of two young Englishwoman being a delightful rarity . |
| 7 | Oh no I might be able to actually no I 'll be able to come in James because I 'm not on until the evening , I can call in on my way to Merseyside . |
| 8 | And Dannii 's not in at the moment so we 'll just have some music now . |
| 9 | They were not along for the ride . |
| 10 | Cultural cosmopolitanism at Cyrene meant that its connections ran across to the rest of the Greek world , not down to the natives whom the Greek colonists had displaced or overrun . |
| 11 | No one had mentioned how fast the trains were going : nor the precise time of impact , not down to the minute . |
| 12 | To the courts , to the magistrates , remember that man , the judge , it 's all down to him and the jury , it 's not down to the police . |
| 13 | That 's not down to the area . |
| 14 | The ski resort as such is not down in the valley at all , would that it were ; rather , it is perched to devastatingly conspicuous effect on the side of a mountain to the west , up to which you can go either by car along a new road or by cable-car from the centre of Saint-Lary . |
| 15 | ‘ The mood in our camp is still good though , we 're certainly not down in the doldrums . |
| 16 | So you 're quite right , the elder men have a tremendous control , not over on the over-supply of women , but also over the younger men . |
| 17 | The court held that the theft was not over by the time the lady was tied up . |
| 18 | Walking for money THOSE not up to the London Marathon can instead walk for charity in aid of Enterprise Neptune , the National Trust 's appeal to save unspoilt countryside . |
| 19 | Israeli officials , while offering a more rapid review of the deportation cases , at the same time stressed that the ultimate decision on when the Palestinians would be repatriated from Lebanon was not up to the government but to courts . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , I think Miss Grenfell is right , ’ she said guardedly , ‘ my work is not up to the standard you require . ’ |
| 21 | However , the cost is high ( but falling ) and the quality of the final product is sometimes not up to the standard of high-class manually digitized material . |
| 22 | Style analysers can give on-the-spot text analysis and tuition if your grammar is not up to the mark or your style is a little untidy . |
| 23 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 24 | The pages on what subject in Labour and the Nation are … not up to the mark … |
| 25 | So when , and I would agree with you again , so when are the teachers going to be accountable , when is somebody who is a bad teacher and heck there are quite a few of them , you know it only takes a couple in every school to make it difficult for the rest , going to be got rid of you know you are not up to the mark out . |
| 26 | If the shooting is not up to the mark , we will need to carry the consequences . ’ |
| 27 | She always wanted to be a vet , but she 's not up to the exams . |
| 28 | Lyons I was poorly attended : Lyons II ( May and July 1274 ) , though not up to the numbers of Lateran IV , had a wide spread of members . |
| 29 | Above all , local educational standards were as yet not up to the demands put upon them by ‘ the Centre ’ . |
| 30 | If someone 's performance is not up to the standards set by the injunctions , no allowances are made , even if they are doing their best to cope with severe or even impossible demands . |