Example sentences of "not [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps I 'll do it by process of elimination ; find out what I 'm not bit by bit until I know who I am . ’ |
2 | Struggling throughout his life with his own infirmity of will , and with a haunting sense that he was like some great tree possessing ‘ pith within the Trunk , not heart of Wood ’ , he was consistently drawn , for good and ill , to those possessing stronger personalities than his own . |
3 | So we were able to tell how many tickets of certain classes were sold each day but not route by route , we 'd lost that that facility because the waybills just were n't big enough and of course the , wa everything got mechanical but now I mean I do n't profess to know anything about what happens now but I was introduced to it when I went down there for a retirement and believe me it 's , it 's all electronics now they can tell how a ticket machine is issuing tickets at any particular one day by this , this electronic business , this computers . |
4 | So it 's not kind of country cottage style . |
5 | The Thatcher years were not kind to Lord Weinstock , GEC 's legendary managing director . |
6 | And so , the media was not kind after Sharon 's slaughter by the Manson disciples , hence Nicholson 's remark about Sharon having been murdered in the newspapers . |
7 | From the early summer of 1916 , the growth point of pacifist protest was not resistance to conscription , but the demand for a negotiated peace . |
8 | The words used by the testator did not set up a trust , for they represented not testation with respect to his own property ( which would , of course , have been legitimate ) but an attempt to deprive one of his daughters of her right to free testation . |
9 | Ramsey asked the pointed question whether William Temple would have been able to write if he had been Bishop of London and not Archbishop of York . |
10 | Slipper of the Yard objected to some passages in Delano 's book but did not resort to litigation . |
11 | If you are not sure about the right way to connect something in a mains power supply circuit , do not resort to trial and error . |
12 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
13 | Even in the Petitioners case , where less emphasis is placed upon status , the Court does not resort to treaty arguments and indeed could not do so , for there was no treaty right of petition . |
14 | But Locke 's real target in Book 1 is not innateness of ideas , but innateness of knowledge . |
15 | Is not dread of thirst when your well is full , the thirst that is unquenchable ? |
16 | On such a view , in so far as pragmatics is concerned with context , it can be claimed that by definition pragmatics is not part of competence , and thus not within the scope of grammatical descriptions . |
17 | That 's that 's that 's not that 's not part of part of our er our proposal . |
18 | That the accounts department is not part of B S 5750 except in its relationship with er , researchers . |
19 | At the moment , the Convention is not part of Britain 's domestic law . |
20 | These , however , are not part of Aarau 's medieval history , but were painted in the 1950s by Felix Hoffmann , a local artist . |
21 | Lt Cot Hocevar stated that he knew of these plans , but that he considered that Carinthia was not part of Austria . |
22 | Ambitious New Yorkers , please note : Northern Ireland is not part of New York city , nor yet of the United States , nor even of South Africa . |
23 | Note that the operations performed in this algorithm are not part of mathematics . |
24 | Being beholden to anybody was not part of Dominic 's grand strategy . |
25 | Under the Lateran Treaty of February 11 , 1929 , he says , the ecclesiastical state is deemed to be not part of Italy , and therefore not part of the EC . |
26 | They say by the end of the year NeXT and Microsoft will probably be the only companies not part of COSE . |
27 | Down in Yugoslavia — not part of Russia 's empire but a barometer of East-West storms — things are falling apart without causing the superpowers one Yugojitter . |
28 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
29 | And so you have then a political system in which you , which you have a presidency er faced by a powerful legislature , a president who is not part of legislature but who has to lead the legislature without any significant controls over it a very difficult and demanding task . |
30 | ( Elections in Berlin , which was not part of Brandenburg , would be held on Dec. 2 , 1990 . ) |