Example sentences of "of [noun] not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : Sir , when you consider that I had no prospect before me but dishonour , you will allow that I should have seemed very little in earnest in my profession of honesty not to endeavour to get away . |
| 2 | WARNING — Aspects of play not covered by the rules will have to be fought out between the parties . |
| 3 | Another important aspect of assessment not addressed by this study is that of physical disorder . |
| 4 | In a statement on 14 May 1980 the DRA Government asserted that it was necessary ‘ in the process of a political settlement [ around Afghanistan ] to take into account the military-political activity in the region of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf on the part of states not belonging to this region ’ . |
| 5 | Specific instructions of this type are unlikely to provide material for challenge because of : ( 1 ) the policy of the court in allowing final determination by experts on all matters including construction of documents ( see 13.9 ) and ( 2 ) the practice of experts not to issue decisions accompanied by reasons ( see 14.7.7 ) . |
| 6 | I was surprised how things had changed — as I walked in I was given a big plastic number 33 ( shame I did n't turn up later as I could have stolen the number 38 to replace my house number which has seen better days ) and was given a list of reasons not to give blood . |
| 7 | It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ … |
| 8 | When one calculates , for example , the beginning of the universe , using the methods you described , surely you 're making great assumptions about the laws of physics not having changed ? |
| 9 | ‘ No , of course not blackmail ! ’ |
| 10 | The 76-year-old Euro-MP , who currently lives in West Germany , said he would of course not rule out a run some time in the future but for the moment he feels he can do more to promote his country in the European parliament . |
| 11 | And some carers and dependents find it difficult to adapt to a role reversal — the old person of course not wanting to relinquish her dominant role and the carer finding it difficult to cope with becoming the decision maker . ’ |
| 12 | You could of course not send the benefit statement . |
| 13 | I am of course not speaking of those from the interior it is necessary to be more guarded with them particularly those of the Namoi and Juden ( ? ) parts , which I am now about to visit . |
| 14 | Her regular shopping trip to get the food for the Sabbath was something she always enjoyed as the prelude to the best part of the week with its special evening meal , its rituals , her zeide 's stories of his life in Lithuania — no matter how oft repeated — and of course not having to go to work in her father 's store . |
| 15 | The amendment will of course not remove anyone during their period of office if they lose their job . |
| 16 | In everyday conversation , this rarely happens , and even if it does , there is certainly no guarantee that the sentence will have come to an end — because , after the pause , there may be a conjunction , such as the word because — or one such as or — which , as in the case of relative pronouns , can keep a sentence moving on , along with any parentheses and subordinate clauses that the speaker thinks fit to introduce , and of course not forgetting the coordinate clauses which in fact make up the vast majority of the cases that we encounter when we start analysing real conversational speech , and which , as I said at the outset , provide a great deal of the interest when we go in search of English — if you recall . |
| 17 | As Templeman LJ put it : As between Scherings and [ the expert ] if [ the expert ] had obtained the information from sources other than Scherings , then it would of course not have been confidential in his hands , but , by agreeing to advise Scherings and by accepting information from them to enable him to advise Scherings , [ the expert ] placed himself under a duty , in my judgment not to make use of that information without the consent of Scherings in a manner which Scherings reasonably considered harmful to their cause . |
| 18 | ’ The guidelines give examples of structured and unstructured CPE and of activities not considered to be CPE . |
| 19 | In every street in Kuwait there is a resistance , there are young guys , women , kids , you know there are many different kinds of resistance not to carry their weapons , but to say no to them . |
| 20 | It is obviously capable of overlapping other sections of the Act ; equally , it is obviously intended to catch exclusions of liability not covered by the other sections of the Act . |
| 21 | The population of monarchs clearly benefits from teaching each generation of birds not to eat them . |
| 22 | The auxiliary use of need has also been found in the following type of sentence not listed by Jacobsson : ( 23 ) By co-vary , we mean that the more a language has of one of the processes , the less it need have of the other . |
| 23 | me , my mate and paul had a terrible night out after the spurs game : first we were supposed to meet two fellow norw. at a pub ( the black lion ? ) and they never showed up — then we went downtown to the marquee which was empty ( 8 quid out of the window ) and a not the place to go at a saturday nite ( no live music , just house — which i quite like — but there has to be some people around ) — then standing in queue at ‘ the borderline ’ for a couple of hours not getting in … and it was bloody cold ( hi paul ) — the wind just froze my balls of ( well nearly ) … the meet-up was cozy though — no problems finding the guys ( or rather : just look for mr cantona ) and time for a couple of pints before and after the game and no problem wearing a leeds outfit at the pub … i was not sporting my leeds away scarf when among the newcastle crowd though ; - ) |
| 24 | The only explicit courses in initial training for subject specialists other than language teachers mentioned were a PGCE unit for drama students at a Polytechnic ( for nine students : no. of hours not listed ) , and a 20 hour course for 10 PGCE students of economics at a College . |
| 25 | ‘ Why should the char of Buttermere not outsell the char of Windermere ? ’ |
| 26 | British consumers will have to find £90m to meet the EC 's directives over the next few years ; might this large amount of money not have been better spent , say , in building hospitals and schools ? |
| 27 | Sums of money not required for immediate use can be put into a deposit account on which the bank will pay interest . |
| 28 | The entry charge now stands at £3 per climber , with threats to confiscate the equipment of climbers not paying . |
| 29 | Why were the majority of clubs not asked for their thoughts on the changes ? |
| 30 | The semblance of UPH not owning it was created by allowing Smyth to put his nominees onto the board of Chestvale after he gave an undertaking to put the loan notes in place . |