Example sentences of "not on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reliance first of all , not on a working class mass base but on a peasant mass base . |
| 2 | Module not on a working DC |
| 3 | If the module is not on a working DC , it must be contained in a user-supplied package . |
| 4 | Generally speaking , If the service is scheduled along a fixed route , the vessel is a ‘ liner ’ ; if the service is not on a fixed route and is unscheduled , the vessel is a tramp . |
| 5 | Extreme centralism and bureaucratic conservatism which characterise the USSR often plunge it into detailed consideration of procurement policy , but not on a continuous basis . |
| 6 | A number of products or components are made at the same time , but not on a continuous basis . |
| 7 | Exuberance will characterise them , according to Robert Stern , simply because ‘ unlike the corporations of more recent times , the owners are not on a theological mission ’ . |
| 8 | There was a lower success rate when the angle to be measured was not on a labelled part of the scale ( Table 4.14 ) . |
| 9 | It should be borne in mind that the company would be assessed to tax by reference to its accounting period ending on normal incorporation tax principles and not on a preceding year basis . |
| 10 | The arrangement of things into classes , such as the class metal , or the class man , is grounded indeed on a resemblance among the things which are placed in the same class , but not on a mere general resemblance ; the resemblance it is grounded on consists in the possession by all those things of certain common peculiarities ; and those peculiarities it is which the terms connote , and which the propositions consequently assert ; not the resemblance . |
| 11 | According to the party statutes a quorum depended not on a simple majority of central committee members being present at a plenary session but on all the LCY 's constituent republican and provincial Leagues of Communists ( LCs ) being represented . |
| 12 | The merest blemish on a Rolls Royce might render it unmerchantable whereas it might not on a humbler car . |
| 13 | Most secondary market transactions in eurobonds occur in over the counter ( OTC ) trading , i.e. not on a recognised exchange ( partly for historical reasons but also due to the non-standardised nature of the instruments ) . |
| 14 | For , as George Gilder has written , ‘ All of us are dependent for our livelihood and progress not on a vast and predictable machine , but on the creativity and courage of the particular men who accept the risks which generate our riches . ’ |
| 15 | Now in modern evolutionary biology , sex again is based on a scientific quantitative definition , not on a subjective human or qualitative one . |
| 16 | Her remarks about cost-efficient cooking were devoid of self-pity , merely a pragmatic evaluation of what was possible and what not on a small fixed income . |
| 17 | ‘ Uh-huh , ’ she said , ‘ not on a first date . ’ |
| 18 | After the banning of the CPSU these liberal groups decided to form a new left-wing party based not on a new programme but on the liberal and , in essence , social democratic programme of the CPSU . |
| 19 | In intuitive terms , we might also say that what follows + but + is not on a separate speaker 's topic , but continues the talk ‘ about ’ 'my drink' . |
| 20 | Labour 's defence spokesman David Clark said , any reductions should be justified on defence criteria , not on a passing whim of the treasury . |
| 21 | A phoneme is the smallest unit of speech sound , and the correspondence between phonemes and letters is not on a direct one-to-one basis . |
| 22 | He 's still my coach now , obviously not on a full time basis because my home 's in Michigan . ’ |
| 23 | Well , not on a sloping one , anyway . |
| 24 | Bromley points out that there is a great difference between the truly independent street seller and seasonal workers , who work for a regular wage though not on a permanent basis and who would be included in the informal sector category ( Bromley 1979 ) . |
| 25 | Treaty involves two factors : physical location and the exercise of an economic activity , both , if not on a permanent basis , at least on a durable one . |
| 26 | He is allocated specialists from the service departments to form the project team , but not on a permanent basis . |
| 27 | We 're not talking about local authority homes , we are not talking about the voluntary sector , we are talking about the private homes which are run by private companies , or individuals , not on a voluntary basis , but on a profit basis . |
| 28 | If the one-tier board structure were used , then the executive directors would ‘ manage ’ and the non-executive directors would ‘ supervise ’ ; to some extent , the boards of UK-listed companies are already moving towards this division , albeit not on a prescribed legal basis , with the establishment of audit committees of non-executive directors to whom the auditors report any matter of concern in the company 's draft accounts , and with the determination of the remuneration of executive directors by a committee of non-executive directors , who also deal with ethical matters and conflicts of interest . |
| 29 | As Dr Berg has put it : " Certainly the home market grew in the eighteenth century , but its expansion was based on changing social relations and not on a national trend of rising living standards . " |
| 30 | Maybe not on a white charger , as the old man had hoped , but in circumstances as strange as anything his grandfather had encountered . |