Example sentences of "and not [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you just place them on the back seat of your car , or they are removed from an arrangement and not packed up in any special way , some of the petals will almost definitely become bruised , which will cause brown lines , patches and spots once the flowers have been pressed . |
| 2 | All electric fencing requires regular attention to ensure the system is ‘ alive ’ and not earthed out by wet grass touching the wires . |
| 3 | According to Eric Midwinter , former director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing , ‘ Discrimination by age is as vicious as discrimination by race or sex and not borne out by medical evidence . ’ |
| 4 | Independent scaffolding : So called because it is self supporting and not tied in to a structure except as temporary restraint . |
| 5 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 6 | I think to come back to an earlier question of what should you teach them , and what is normal , is that ideally a child wants to grow up in an environment where his or her parents enjoy here , where the relationship is enjoyable on both sides and not shot through with anxiety about how well this child is developing , providing the development is within the normal range . |
| 7 | I must also come in when I am told and sit down and eat my meals properly and not run out into the street with a slice of bread in my hand . |
| 8 | Cultural and educational inequalities based on economic inequality are a reality which needs to be revealed and not glossed over by a populist notion of art for the people . |
| 9 | It could stop the erosion of rights catalogued throughout this book , and for this reason such a document needs to be considered seriously by the socialist opposition in Britain , and not written off as mere attempts at electoral reform when instead it should be developing a radical heart along democratic socialist lines . |
| 10 | The Roman theatre , when built on a new site , differed from the Greek pattern in that it was generally constructed above ground and not hollowed out from the hillside . |
| 11 | ‘ His eyes are sharp and piercing , his nose well formed , his beard reddish , his lips fine and not pulled out of shape by too long a mouth . |
| 12 | The situation was desperate : Holmes was away on a case , and not expected back for some time . |
| 13 | She was about to risk departing for an early lunch , a move which she would not have dared to make if Miss Coldharbour had been in the office , but Julia gathered she was out for the morning and not expected in until two fifteen . |
| 14 | and what you 've got to be very careful , cos you ca n't offer them and not come up with the goods |
| 15 | Could we not be told that after Wellesley 's magnificent Arabian charger , Diomed , left him by a brother officer killed in a squalid duel , was piked at Assaye he insisted he should be nursed back to fitness and not put down like the other wounded horses ? |
| 16 | Coats , bags and shoes were to be left in the corridors and not brought in to the hall . |
| 17 | We came here so that we could be in control of our own lives and not tangled up with anyone else . |
| 18 | A fox 's earth , long abandoned , and not taken over by birds or rabbits , provided the dumping-ground . |
| 19 | The money is frozen in the hands of a third party and not paid out to either side . |
| 20 | Because the other bit of rumour , and not passed on by his friend Jordan , none of it was , said that with one of the victims , the last , as yet not formally identified as Ephraim Humphreys , a teddy-bear had been found . |