Example sentences of "not [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol Wilson , who had joined in Music Publishing and signed Sting 's songwriting to the company ( but not Sting as an artist ) had developed her own label , DinDisc , under the Virgin umbrella , which in 1980 gave the company one of its best-selling artists , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark . |
| 2 | Sometimes people today bewail the fact that they were not contemporaries of the historical Jesus , and imply that it would be much easier to believe and much more advantageous generally if they had been . |
| 3 | In Lawson v Rolfe ( 1969 ) 46 TC 199 , it was held that stock dividends paid under a particular provision in the law of California were not income in the hands of a life tenant of an American will trust . |
| 4 | It was not income from the interest under the trust ( which would have been a foreign possession regardless of the underlying sources ) . |
| 5 | The only drawback that I can find is that if the participation is not 100pc across the population then you still need hard cash . |
| 6 | They are not reasons for the impulses but causes that hark back to the primitive responses that we share with many animals ; yet qualified by noting that we , unlike dumb brutes , can reflect upon our impulses and resist them if we so decide , as happened in my example . |
| 7 | Contracts to sell the following are therefore not contracts for the sale of specific goods : ‘ a bottle of port from the seller 's stock ’ ; or , ‘ one of the seller 's current stock of 12 bottles of port ’ ; or , ‘ 12 of the seller 's stock of 13 bottles of port . ’ |
| 8 | Deaths in detention are not phenomena of the distant past : last year two people were reported as having died in custody . |
| 9 | The weather was not kind to the competitors in 1987 , being very wet and stormy . |
| 10 | In Reading Capital ( Althusser and Balibar 1970 ) , Althusser explores the development of Marx 's scientific exposition of historical materialism , stressing the point that the raw materials of knowledge production are not things , not essences of the material world , but concepts and abstractions that are ideological or scientific . |
| 11 | The balance-of-payments deficit is not as bad as it looks , partly because it stems from private sector choices rather than public sector profligacy , and is thus inherently less inflationary as individuals can not resort to the printing press to ease the burden of their debt ; and partly because much of it may be imaginary , since the figures omit the ‘ balancing item ’ of unrecorded net receipts from overseas assets . |
| 12 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 13 | The ‘ tax timing option ’ is available for shares but not futures in the USA and UK . |
| 14 | The family can find forgiveness but not comprehension of a crime which it will take weeks to clear up . |
| 15 | The essential difference between this offence and larceny is that in larceny the victim does not part with the ownership but in obtaining by false pretences he does . |
| 16 | The authors argue that this too was an act of desperation , not part of a grand design ; and that he construed his famous interview with the American ambassador , April Glaspie , as a ‘ green light ’ . |
| 17 | The immediate sense-experiences with which his method begins are not part of a systematic record , and are very quickly left behind as one digs below their surface . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , even though having angles equal to two right angles is not part of a triangle 's essence , it is because it is a three-sided plane figure that it has them . |
| 19 | These restrictions show that the subjective element is merely preparing the ground for the objective element ; it is not part of a broader defence of emotional pressure of the kind discussed in Chapter 6.5(c) above . |
| 20 | Although intelligence in a horse , or lack of it , is also an inherited characteristic , it is not part of a horse 's temperament . |
| 21 | Smoothing aims to remove any upward or downward movement in the series that is not part of a sustained trend . |
| 22 | But , they argue , the shooting of the Jews was a reprisal , a ‘ spontaneous criminal reaction , spectacular , ferocious … ’ but ‘ relatively improvised ’ and therefore not part of a ‘ concerted plan ’ . |
| 23 | No , it 's not part of a campaign of cleanliness in the school . |
| 24 | But local department stores or specialist shops which were not part of a chain were used less by credit buyers than cash buyers , whereas fuel board showrooms were used more . |
| 25 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 26 | The geophysical models of the East Grampian Younger Basic intrusions imply they were not part of a single large layered basic/ultrabasic intrusive sheet . |
| 27 | ‘ It is not part of a doctor 's work to become involved in brawls , ’ he said firmly . |
| 28 | If you are not part of a discussion group you can still represent your parish at the Diocesan Assembly and become involved in local and Diocesan events that develop from there . |
| 29 | Moreover , since the 1788 petitions were not part of a movement pursuing significant change in the political system or attacking the range of government policy , the application of humanitarian and general interest criteria to a question of trade probably appeared relatively innocuous to those who were not directly involved . |
| 30 | Greece 's natural interest in Europe , like Britain 's , is to be part of a wealth-creating economic confederation , but not part of a political union in which it could get out-voted on something it considered vital . |