Example sentences of "not on a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reliance first of all , not on a working class mass base but on a peasant mass base . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , If the service is scheduled along a fixed route , the vessel is a ‘ liner ’ ; if the service is not on a fixed route and is unscheduled , the vessel is a tramp . |
| 3 | Extreme centralism and bureaucratic conservatism which characterise the USSR often plunge it into detailed consideration of procurement policy , but not on a continuous basis . |
| 4 | A number of products or components are made at the same time , but not on a continuous basis . |
| 5 | Exuberance will characterise them , according to Robert Stern , simply because ‘ unlike the corporations of more recent times , the owners are not on a theological mission ’ . |
| 6 | There was a lower success rate when the angle to be measured was not on a labelled part of the scale ( Table 4.14 ) . |
| 7 | It should be borne in mind that the company would be assessed to tax by reference to its accounting period ending on normal incorporation tax principles and not on a preceding year basis . |
| 8 | According to the party statutes a quorum depended not on a simple majority of central committee members being present at a plenary session but on all the LCY 's constituent republican and provincial Leagues of Communists ( LCs ) being represented . |
| 9 | The merest blemish on a Rolls Royce might render it unmerchantable whereas it might not on a humbler car . |
| 10 | Most secondary market transactions in eurobonds occur in over the counter ( OTC ) trading , i.e. not on a recognised exchange ( partly for historical reasons but also due to the non-standardised nature of the instruments ) . |
| 11 | Now in modern evolutionary biology , sex again is based on a scientific quantitative definition , not on a subjective human or qualitative one . |
| 12 | ‘ Uh-huh , ’ she said , ‘ not on a first date . ’ |
| 13 | After the banning of the CPSU these liberal groups decided to form a new left-wing party based not on a new programme but on the liberal and , in essence , social democratic programme of the CPSU . |
| 14 | In intuitive terms , we might also say that what follows + but + is not on a separate speaker 's topic , but continues the talk ‘ about ’ 'my drink' . |
| 15 | Labour 's defence spokesman David Clark said , any reductions should be justified on defence criteria , not on a passing whim of the treasury . |
| 16 | He 's still my coach now , obviously not on a full time basis because my home 's in Michigan . ’ |
| 17 | Bromley points out that there is a great difference between the truly independent street seller and seasonal workers , who work for a regular wage though not on a permanent basis and who would be included in the informal sector category ( Bromley 1979 ) . |
| 18 | Treaty involves two factors : physical location and the exercise of an economic activity , both , if not on a permanent basis , at least on a durable one . |
| 19 | He is allocated specialists from the service departments to form the project team , but not on a permanent basis . |
| 20 | We 're not talking about local authority homes , we are not talking about the voluntary sector , we are talking about the private homes which are run by private companies , or individuals , not on a voluntary basis , but on a profit basis . |
| 21 | As Dr Berg has put it : " Certainly the home market grew in the eighteenth century , but its expansion was based on changing social relations and not on a national trend of rising living standards . " |
| 22 | Maybe not on a white charger , as the old man had hoped , but in circumstances as strange as anything his grandfather had encountered . |
| 23 | This was not on a massive scale , for the area was sparsely populated in the past , and remains thinly populated even today . |
| 24 | ‘ We do not object to the development , but why is it not on a derelict piece of industrial land ? ’ |
| 25 | The success of this particular work pattern relied not on a formal structure , but on the economics of the time and the close personal relationships created within the team . |
| 26 | And like , in the di in the disabled bathroom the , the er , it 's not on a proper pedestal , so it 's sitting on it |
| 27 | In addition , interest on overdue tax accrued indefinitely and not on a day-to-day basis even if it was so calculated . |
| 28 | ‘ Not on a yellow line . ’ |
| 29 | The bees work , not on a single cell at a time , but on whole sections of the comb . |
| 30 | This comes in two forms , that used here being the SADS-L , or Lifetime Version , which enables the assessment to be based , not on a single episode of illness , but on accumulated information about the person , covering the longer time periods over which our subjects could be studied . |