Example sentences of "not the [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although libraries ( especially young peoples ' libraries ) are not the havens of quiet of folk myth , they can cater for such children if staff are trained to recognize and respect them . |
| 2 | Do not the upholders of law have daily experience of the fact that the greedy society so desired by Conservative Members must inevitably be a bad one ? |
| 3 | Whatever the Dersinghams had skimped on , it was not the accoutrements of death . |
| 4 | It is here that the notion of contract plays its vital role — not the doctrines of contract law , which in many respects are as arid and unsupportive of commercial activity as a dedicated anti-capitalist could imagine — rather , contract as practice , as putting into words what the parties can and must do , and if need be adjusting , or excluding , particular rules of law . |
| 5 | Reference to the ‘ pièces de Marais ’ are probably the Pièces à une et à deux violes ( 1686 ) rather than the Pièces en trio pour les flûtes , violon & dessus de viole ( 1692 ) , since the viol pieces ( and not the ones for flute ) are found in Jacques 's posthumous inventory . |
| 6 | But not the ones with class . |
| 7 | This was adopted by the House of Lords in the GCHQ case , where Lord Diplock said that ‘ National security is the responsibility of the executive government ; what action is needed to protect its interests is … a matter upon which those upon whom the responsibility rests , and not the courts of justice , must have the last word . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ So , ’ he went on , his eyes missing nothing , she thought , certainly not the sparks of anger in hers , ‘ tell me , what 's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this ? ’ |
| 9 | and would have done so , had not the laws of nature prevented it . |
| 10 | She sat for the evening with a strange man 's hand inside her stocking , and yet it had not occurred to her that the laws of a disorganized school trip were not the laws of nature or of justice . |
| 11 | Not the clothes for cross-country , and he would stand out like a beacon on the fringes of the villages and collectives that he must circle like a fox coming to the dustbins for food . |
| 12 | These mannequins are not the glamourpusses of Vogue , but the strange girl next door of a Diane Arbus photograph . |
| 13 | The blame fell on pollution ; not the clouds of smoke and occasional waves of sulphur dioxide which were known to drift up from the industrial valleys of the Ruhr and kill off the sensitive firs , but the more insidious long-term changes implied by acid rain . |
| 14 | In the United States the Supreme Court , in Marbury v Madison ( 1803 ) 1 Cranch 137 , declared that it had power to decide whether or not the Acts of Congress conformed with the Constitution . |
| 15 | It is in this sense that higher education can be said to institutionalize not the structures of knowledge , but the experience of uncertainty . |
| 16 | They celebrate not the facts of nature , but the transforming power of atmosphere and momentary effects of light . |
| 17 | One way in which lenders ( but not the holders of bank notes ) can safeguard their position is to index the value of their loan against an appropriate price index . |
| 18 | However , some experts believe that technical solutions are dealing only with the symptoms , not the causes of piracy . |
| 19 | The numbers given in the boxes are not the numbers of leukaemia deaths as the presentation suggests — they are nearer to the total of all causes of death . |
| 20 | This gave her the entrée into many whispering galleries of politics and the drawing-rooms if not the corridors of power . |
| 21 | And if Augustine 's understanding of how God can indeed be known incarnationally influenced the thinking of later mystics like Walter Hilton , Richard Rolle and Julian of Norwich , another tradition , which stressed not the links between Creator and created , but the darkness of the divide , was undoubtedly formative in the experience of the Cloud-author . |
| 22 | He wanted privacy and not the struggles of circuit and paddock . |
| 23 | The psychiatrist explores the roots of personal deviance , ‘ inadequacy ’ and ‘ alienation ’ — not the grounds of conformity and compliance . |
| 24 | Should not the costs of check-up tests and the associated costs be scrapped ? |
| 25 | Cooks were not the instigators of winter sports holidays , that was the achievement of Henry Lunn , but they were the champions of winter sports for women . |
| 26 | They 're very supportive , but they 're not the sorts of theatre where you want to open . ’ |
| 27 | These three limits to structuralism are not the marks of failure . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not the days of flower power now , whatever you may think . |