Example sentences of "not [art] [noun] ' " in BNC.

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1 The effect of this is that the Solicitors ' Overseas Practice Rules , and not the Solicitors ' Indemnity Rules , apply to the overseas offices in respect of indemnity .
2 He admits WABI is alluring to the vendor but then damningly turns and claims it 's a solution to the vendors ' problem not the customers ' .
3 Blood tests revealed that she was not the Twiggs ' natural child .
4 Company law also assigns to the members the ultimate right to make decisions in certain key areas , for example with regard to changes in the corporate constitution or increases in capital , again in order to ensure that the business is run in accordance with their , and not the directors ' , interests .
5 The index linking of teachers ' pensions is actually that 's actually met by the government and not the teachers ' superannuation fund .
6 What eventually brought him to reconsider his theory was not the critics ' doubts .
7 It is in a practical sense their assets and not the shareholders ' assets that , through the medium of the company , are under the management of the directors pending either liquidation , return to insolvency , or the imposition of some alternative administration .
8 He is often said to be fixing a ‘ tariff ’ period ; and there is no harm in using that expression provided that one realises that it is the Home Secretary 's tariff , not the judges ' tariff .
9 Williams argues in this issue that there should be scope for a third verdict ( in addition to ‘ guilty ’ or ‘ not guilty ’ of abusing market power ) , where the market situation , though not the firms ' conduct , is not conducive to competition or economic efficiency , and on this basis is to be declared to be against the public interest .
10 that while injury to Lonrho 's business was foreseeable it was not the defendants ' purpose to bring it about .
11 It followed , or so it seemed to us , that while steps should be taken to clear the streets of soliciting prostitutes , the behaviour of consenting male adults in private was their affair and not the laws ' .
12 The first point is that educating through a language which is not the parents ' own , does not produce a deviant development .
13 I do n't know , it 's not the parents ' fault .
14 Certainly not the Ketterings ' ancestors as they appeared to be mostly of sly Italian clerics .
15 The change of abode and servants was not the princes ' only misfortune .
16 Labour made a net gain of 39 seats on Thursday , chiefly because its share of the vote increased by four points , from 31 to 35 per cent , but most of this modest gain was at the Liberal Democrats ' expense , not the Tories ' .
17 In a match made in heaven , if not the sponsors ' dreams , Faldo will play Ballesteros in the semi-finals today and Rafferty will meet Ian Woosnam .
18 Inevitably , hygiene was not the guards ' top priority and we all got a dose of diarrhoea .
19 It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss .
20 We did not make it clear that the table showed not the banks ' actual ratios but a hypothetical estimate of what they would have been had the banks not borrowed subordinated loans to boost their capital ( as Japan 's finance ministry let them do after June ) .
21 They can be overstimulated by variety , and often it is the teacher 's ideas that are expressed and not the pupils ' .
22 High Court judge , Sir Nicholas Browne-Wilkinson V- C , was not concerned about ‘ a detailed analysis of much conflicting evidence or documentation ’ , because at this stage there was only a preliminary question of whether or not the plaintiffs ' statement of claim should be struck out .
23 The difficulty was the lack of system : local government 's lack ; not the Webbs ' !
24 However , John Magill , national director of accounting and audit at Touche Ross , said : ‘ We have already given the Department of Trade and Industry access to all our papers because , in our view , it is their job to investigate on the investors ' behalf , not the liquidators '
25 The power of trade unions ensured that it was not the workers ' wages that suffered but the employers ' profits .
26 After the crash , the number of people shrank , but not the survivors ' pay-packets .
27 There was no amorous intent about it , because Matt had assured her that Silas was not a ladies ' man .
28 George could not face a life on his own , though I do n't think he would consider marrying because he is not a ladies ' man .
29 the expert sailers say its not a beginners ' boat but will give an exciting performance … they think it will be a good test of skill … and it 's a great boat to sail … it 's fantastic … just the craft to be in
30 And thirdly the objective was no longer what Marx had acclaimed the objective of er a party following his leadership should be , no longer the objective which Lenin , in the Russian Revolution , claimed was the objective for the Russian Bolshevik Party not a workers ' revolution which would then spread and become international , worldwide .
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