Example sentences of "not the [noun pl] ' " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The index linking of teachers ' pensions is actually that 's actually met by the government and not the teachers ' superannuation fund . |
| 5 | What eventually brought him to reconsider his theory was not the critics ' doubts . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | that while injury to Lonrho 's business was foreseeable it was not the defendants ' purpose to bring it about . |
| 10 | 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 ' . |
| 11 | The first point is that educating through a language which is not the parents ' own , does not produce a deviant development . |
| 12 | I do n't know , it 's not the parents ' fault . |
| 13 | The change of abode and servants was not the princes ' only misfortune . |
| 14 | 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 ' . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Inevitably , hygiene was not the guards ' top priority and we all got a dose of diarrhoea . |
| 17 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | They can be overstimulated by variety , and often it is the teacher 's ideas that are expressed and not the pupils ' . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ' … |
| 22 | The power of trade unions ensured that it was not the workers ' wages that suffered but the employers ' profits . |
| 23 | After the crash , the number of people shrank , but not the survivors ' pay-packets . |
| 24 | I interpret it that erm parents saw that they were being asked to do something false , and if I can just correct you on something , these were n't the Governors ' proposals to seek opting out , they were the proposals of a group of parents , some of whom happen to be parent-Governors , but when the Governors themselves came to vote on whether we thought |