Example sentences of "not [art] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a starry night that night , and by leaning against the cold window Boy could see the stars , not the stars of The Bar ceiling now , but the real ones . |
| 2 | According to Olson , it was not the beliefs of the eighteenth century essayists that led to changes in the conception of language and rationality , an assertion that could be tested against the historical evidence , but the forms they used , the alphabet and the essay . |
| 3 | It represented , not the ambitions of an economically powerful bourgeoisie , but the claim of one section of the nobility to replace another as the chosen instrument of the crown . |
| 4 | They are not the possessors of the ‘ right ’ answers or of a collection of facts to be imparted . |
| 5 | The fact that a relatively high proportion ( nearly 40 per cent ) of responses are " proxy " responses ( not the responses of the individual concerned but of another member of the household , often a spouse ) has suggested that LFS data should be interpreted with some caution . |
| 6 | Do not the problems of the third world , which is still suffering economic deprivation , need to be addressed ? |
| 7 | Finally , the politically important and influential newspapers were not the newspapers with the greatest circulation but the small circulation , élite ( political ) newspapers as exemplified by The Times . |
| 8 | Taliesin said , ‘ We have not the riches of the East , nor the wealth of the world , sir . |
| 9 | Sure , the DNA was perhaps a little preoccupied with carrying the genetic memory , but could not the memories of a lifetime be readily encoded in the myriad of potential unique protein sequences ? |
| 10 | These were not the sounds of a new enemy vessel , but the calls of fishes . |
| 11 | If notice is given that is sufficient to satisfy the terms of the lease but not the provisions of the 1954 Act , the effect of the notice will be to convert the tenancy from a fixed term tenancy into a tenancy continuing by virtue of s24 of the 1954 Act , ( Weinbergs Weatherproofs Ltd v Radcliffe Paper Mill Co Ltd [ 1958 ] Ch 437 ) . |
| 12 | In the first place , almost the entire judgment was devoted to a consideration of whether or not the letters under the Great Seal were good and valid to impose the duty whereas the right to recover was dealt with in 10 words as a necessary consequence of invalidity . |
| 13 | They are not the reasons for the torture that I would be suffering in his place . |
| 14 | The complete tree ( but not the directions of the arrows ) can be generated from the function P as can P from the tree . |
| 15 | The absence of individual marriages led Morgan to the view that in such a society a person must belong to the gens of the mother , not the gens of the father , because with such a system of marriage you could never be sure who your father was . |
| 16 | [ The DHAC ] regarded the Corporation as representing primarily the interests of property owners and business speculators and not the interests of the working class of Derry . |
| 17 | Those studies reached the conclusion that , whatever else is served by privatisation and deregulation , it is not the interests of the consumer . |
| 18 | The remarks of the hon. Member for Sunderland , South ( Mr. Mullin ) suggests that his primary concern is not the interests of the taxpayer who supplies the money or the customer who uses the services , but the staff who work in those services . |
| 19 | While shareholders are not the owners of the company 's assets as a matter of strict law , they are in substance the owners by virtue of being the contributors of the company 's capital . |
| 20 | It was held by the Divisional Court that they should not have done so , and the case was remitted with directions to the magistrates to ascertain whether or not the ingredients of the offence were made out . |
| 21 | Because there 's not the ingredients in the cleanser that there is the moisturizer and if you have any cleanser on the skin it 's blocking the work of the moisturizer . |
| 22 | But more often than not the women of the fabliau are presented with admiration and respect . |
| 23 | I shall argue in the next chapter that it is part of a teacher 's duties to attempt to redress the balance between children who have and those who have not the advantages of a supportive home . |
| 24 | Whether or not the advantages to the business of imposing a change outweigh the disadvantages to the employee is one of the factors which should be taken into account . |
| 25 | These were not the outriders of a large and powerful army sweeping to join them : an army visible , if they rode hard , in half an hour . |
| 26 | If the one we crossed this time was a steep climb and then a pleasant sweep into a warm green valley , and not the mountains of the moon , I was the better pleased , because although it was different it was also wonderful , and because I felt instinctively that the heights must be earned . |
| 27 | The fundamental divide in British politics in the inter-war period proved to be not the differences between the rapidly growing and supposedly socialist Labour party and the long tradition of high politics , encapsulated in the party divisions between the Conservatives and the steadily decaying Liberal party , but between the economic conservatives and economic radicals across the political spectrum . |
| 28 | On the other hand , the singers are not the puppets of the show , they are meant to represent flesh-and-blood people , and should react accordingly . |
| 29 | These did not include anything remotely mechanical ; certainly not the workings of the internal combustion engine . |
| 30 | Australia has contested , at this point , not the merits of the claim but the admissibility of the claim and the jurisdiction of the court in respect thereof . |