Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun sg] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not of course the case that the interaction between the major and minor keys actually has this quality — indeed there is no interaction as such — we project that feeling quality onto the structure . |
| 2 | It conveniently marks the beginning of nineteenth-century poetry , though not of course the end of eighteenth-century readers , who lingered on till after 1832 , so that in the first three decades of the new century a great battle of taste was fought out , largely over Wordsworth 's ‘ simple ’ poetry . |
| 3 | Few who lived when the aristocratic rule of taste prevailed would have questioned Sir Henry Wotton 's definition in the previous century of ‘ Every Man 's proper Mansion House and Home ’ as ‘ the Theatre of his Hospitality , the Seat of Self Fruition , the comfortablest Part of his own Life , the noblest of his Son 's Inheritance , a kind of private Princedom ; nay , to the Possessors thereof , an Epitomy of the whole World ’ , although , on occasions , this was not of course the reality . |
| 4 | It is not open to the health authority to deny liability on the ground that the organism that they injured was not in law the plaintiff and yet to deny responsibility for the defects with which the plaintiff was born on the ground that they inflicted them before birth . |
| 5 | you never er not in fact the Committee , we do in the eyes of when majority |
| 6 | A further point is that although Piaget implies that explanations which combine two types of content are always inappropriate , this is not in fact the case . |
| 7 | This is not in fact the case . |
| 8 | This is not in fact the case . |
| 9 | Erm , we have , as you would have seen , and has already been noted , erm , balances considerably higher than the seven million we 've previously set , at the , at the moment , and these will erm , be able to make provision if necessary , for police pay should happen to be higher than er , we are told than , than the one point five percent , which has something that people have raised with me , and erm , have said , that oh of course you lose grants if you do n't decide it now , but that is not in fact the case . |
| 10 | But I was surprised to discover on my first full day at Thornfield that Mrs Fairfax was not in fact the owner , as I had assumed , but the housekeeper , and that my new master was a Mr Rochester , who was often away from home . |
| 11 | If the Chancellor was not in control the pound could go into free fall , leading to much higher interest rates , Mr Payne went on . |
| 12 | There are only three solutions : the owners can decide that the pleasure of having a cat in the home is greater than the distress of living with scratched furniture , or some kind of covering that cats hate to scratch has to be put over the sides of the furniture , or the cats have to be trained not to strop the furniture with their claws . |
| 13 | The main flambeaux along the deck all died out suddenly so as not to backlight the fighting machines . |
| 14 | Try not to arch the back during this exercise . |
| 15 | ‘ When the government decided not to ringfence the money , the future was still uncertain during the period of the judicial review . |
| 16 | Ben had warned her not to baby the boy , especially not in front of anyone . |
| 17 | Mercifully the issue of censorship in the UK is not at present the matter of life and death that it can be in other countries , yet various instances of censorship in recent years ( even in the library field ) have illustrated how inflammatory the question of censorship can be . |