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

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1 Just , well I du n no , cos they 're not on every day are they ?
2 I am used to gifts , she thought , used to returning them politely , if not on every occasion at least on most .
3 Pack animals , called tavalams , continued to serve villages not on a road , and cattle were also used to pull carriages .
4 ( 3 ) That ( per Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. and Lord Griffiths ) on the true construction of section 63 of the Finance Act 1976 the taxpayers were assessable on the extra cost of providing the benefit , and from the point of view of expense incurred it could not be said that its provision involved significant extra cost to the school ; that ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) reference should be made to Hansard to resolve the ambiguity in section 63 , and that the Parliamentary history disclosed that the Act of 1976 was passed on the basis that the effect of sections 61 and 63 thereof was to assess in-house benefits , and particularly concerning education for teachers ' children , on the marginal costs to the employer and not on a proportion of the total costs incurred in providing the service both for the public and the employee ; and that section 63 should be construed accordingly ( post , pp. 1036C–E , F–G , 1039B , C , G , 1040B , 1042C–D , 1063A , H — 1064A , C , 1067A ) .
5 Unreferenced module is known to LIFESPAN and not on a DC : X
6 That was removed from 16 to 18-year-olds who were not on a Government course or in full-time education .
7 I knew it was not on a gramophone ; someone was playing it .
8 Not on a Sunday it is n't breakfast time .
9 And I thought you might want to go some time anyway er , not on a Sunday .
10 Most of them broke when I peeled the real leaf off the chocolate which I 'd painted on — not quite up to Mum 's standards of patience and perfection , but who ever saw lots of perfect leaves ( not on a tree ) anyway .
11 Bring up some needles on the ribber bed only and have the first needle on a red mark and the last needle in a space ( not on a mark ) .
12 Egon Zehnder has established a reputation for high quality and absolute discretion , charges fees based on work to be undertaken and not on a contingency or percentage of salary basis , and has retained practically all its senior staff .
13 In the same way assurance of faith depends on our grasp of God and his faithfulness and not on a mastery of all the doubts that are ever likely to assail us .
14 The absence of a Committee on a particular subject ( for example , agriculture or poverty ) does not mean that the Government do not attach importance to it ; and the fact that a particular Minister is not on a Committee does not mean that he does not attend when his interests are affected .
15 and it 's not on a bike either
16 O also thought , because of the man 's posture , and the huge overcoat in which he was wrapped , that he looked like a queen in a tragedy which O had seen , who in a terrible moment of despair had sat down , not on a throne or on the marble palace steps , but just right there on the floor .
17 You 're not on a register .
18 This means trying the schedule out , not on a sample of people for whom it is intended in its final version , but on people who may well be one 's colleagues at work ; that is , people who are likely to know something about survey work itself and schedule design .
19 Oh no , he says , er , he says , I 'm not on a hiking holiday , he says er , I 'm just back from Iceland .
20 The latest CBI surveys suggest that more stockbuilding has indeed occurred , although not on a scale sufficient to explain the trade figures .
21 There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment .
22 The housing proposals will generate some additional traffic but not on a scale which would cause capacity or safety problems .
23 ‘ … This form of selection depends , not on a struggle for existence in relation to other organic beings or to external conditions , but on a struggle between the individuals of one sex , generally the males , for the possession of the other sex .
24 The emphasis here is not on a description of the evidence but on its interpretation .
25 Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’
26 Then she roared , like a Montreal trucker stuck in a lane : ‘ You 'll be lucky if his name 's not on a tombstone — like his friend who killed himself . ’
27 I do n't know what their motivation is but we 're certainly not on a nostalgia trip .
28 Anyone not on a sheet of paper or who steps off , drops out of the game .
29 God is not ‘ up there ’ — not on a cloud , not in an upstairs heaven and not waiting to be glimpsed through the end of Laplace 's powerful telescope .
30 In the same way , it is possible to screen explicit safer-sex videos from abroad at the Institute for Contemporary Arts ( ICA ) as part of a one-off cultural event , but not on a routine basis to punters in gay bars .
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