Example sentences of "not [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ Translation by the present author , not that on the liner . ] |
| 2 | Dr Jessie Scriver made a speech stating that the economies were affecting the health of the mothers , though not that of the children as yet . |
| 3 | Descent was traced in the female line because when pairing was temporary and informal , it was not possible to reckon it in any other way , as one could only be sure of the identity of the mother of the child , not that of the father . |
| 4 | THE MOST interesting reaction to the Labour Party 's abandonment of the closed shop is not that of the Left or the unions but of the Conservatives . |
| 5 | Everywhere one looked there were unaccustomed trophies on display and , when the visiting Ryder Cup team arrived at The Belfry in the last few moments of the decade , they were greeted by the sight of the Ryder , Curtis and Walker Cups , knowing that the last name on them was not that of the United States of America . |
| 6 | The size of the subscription of the first volume , if not that of the second , can be compared to another effort undertaken by the Blencowe family early in the next century . |
| 7 | It was pointed out in Chapter II that the standard procedure of Roman civil law had difficulty in recognizing trusts , for they fell into a mould which was not that of the civil law . |
| 8 | No democratic government , and certainly not that of the US , could gain much mileage from giving political status to the perpetrators of carnage such as this . |
| 9 | A man of immense physical vigour , intellectual confidence and moral force , as naturally extrovert as was Paul painfully introvert , his decisive experience was not that of the Council ( which he did attend ) , nor of the Western Christian 's attempt to reshape the gospel when faced with the blandishments of agnostic affluence , still less was it any deep experience of the struggles of the third world ; instead , it was that of the Church 's singularly successful , no-nonsense resistance to communism in Poland : a combination of old-fashioned pieties , unquestioned doctrinal certainties , down-to-earth preoccupation with basic human rights , and a dose of sheer populism . |
| 10 | However , Hume 's way of explaining the gap was not that of the intuitionists , but rather that of the emotivists . |
| 11 | That Marxist conception is , of course , the Althusserian one : in Althusser 's reading of Marx the unity of the whole is precisely not that of the Hegelian — and Sartrean — expressive totality ; rather it is constituted through overdetermination , through : |
| 12 | What I mean by the ‘ graphology ’ of drawing is the study of the line , of the pure graphic quality , of the stroke , not that of the subject represented or the style . |
| 13 | The cost of training is generally the responsibility of parents or the state and not that of the trainees themselves . |
| 14 | A laboratory study of two short sleepers by Jones and Oswald found that their pattern of sleep was not that of the " normal " sleeper 's first half of the night . |
| 15 | Jean-Claude , on the other hand , understood that the logic of the dream-world was not that of the actual world . |
| 16 | Treaty defined the companies to which the chapter on the right of establishment was applicable , it adopted , alongside the criterion of formation in accordance with the law of a member state , the criterion of the registered office , central administration or principal place of business and not that of the nationality of the founders , directors or shareholders . |
| 17 | It is of no assistance , however , to your Lordships in the present appeal to debate the finer points of Reg. v. Lawrence with a view to deciding whether the decision in this House ( although not that of the Court of Appeal ) can be justified on the special facts . |
| 18 | As their point of departure , linguists need to adopt a frame of reference which is not that of the linguist but that of the educationalist . |
| 19 | This would have come under the jurisdiction of the provincial procurator one of whose assistants restored its headquarters building , and not that of the regionarius . |
| 20 | Friends then , the three of us — me sitting in the back of the old Countryman as it rattled along , Edward at the wheel singing Verdi as though he 'd just found the key to the Hermetic Mystery if not that of the aria he 'd chosen , while Laura , who had taken some persuading , groaned and laughed beside him . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , if in our experiments the effects of indomethacin were mediated by an increased production of leukotrienes , one would have expected that indomethacin reversed the beneficial effect of the linoleic diet but not that of the eicosapentaenoic acid diet , or at least not to the same extent , since the lipoxygenase products derived from eicosapentaenoic acid are weaker proinflammatory mediators than products derived from arachidonic acid metabolism . |
| 22 | In cases like the " difficult customer " , where the persona created is clearly not that of the narrator , it is easy to see how the change of code is part of the construction of a " character " separate from the speaker . |
| 23 | His apparent heresy is not that of the smooth talking cleric , but the statistician specialising in the field of criminology . |
| 24 | The balances in London would of course have their counterpart in the US , but would be in the name of the London bank , not that of the East European bank . |
| 25 | Is not that against the resolution of the House and its spirit , and is it not a reduction , not an increase , in the involvement of this national Parliament ? |
| 26 | If this is done , the tyres should be right on the tip and not half on the ground , otherwise if the glider does move , the tip will slide out from under the tyre and be freed . |
| 27 | More positively , both the BFASS and most of its critics in England and Scotland , though not some of the more circumspect Scots abolitionists , sounded off powerfully against the Free Church 's financial reliance on southern slaveholders after its break from the Church of Scotland in 1843 . |
| 28 | She remained serious about reading all her life , taking pains with her five children 's education and recommending that they read good books , " not some of the trash she had seen at Morrison & Gibb " . |
| 29 | Have you talked only about the bride cooking for the bridegroom when you know she is a career girl and a women 's libber , and if she is not some of the audience will be ? |
| 30 | I wonder if these were not some of the horde Geoffrey de Mandeville collected about him , looking for safer pastures to settle in , now the king is master of the Fens again ? |