Example sentences of "[vb pp] not on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peasants ' " redemption dues " were calculated not on the basis of the land which came into their possession but on the basis of the rents and services that they owed under serfdom . |
| 2 | For example , in ‘ Japan ’ the primary stress is on the last syllable , but when we add the stress-carrying suffix ‘ -ese ’ the primary stress is on the suffix and the secondary stress is placed not on the second syllable but on the first : ‘ Japanese ’ . |
| 3 | But the frequency with which women were thus brutalised depended not on the category of entrant they fell into but on whether Immigration Officers wanted to use these methods , and on the attitude of the Minister responsible . |
| 4 | It would also help convince them that politicians have decided not on the basis of the best orchestrated campaign but by seeking to occupy the high moral ground , wherever it might be found . |
| 5 | The followers or ‘ administrative staff are selected not on the basis of status or qualification , but according to personal devotion . |
| 6 | Yet in Roman law discretion is regularly interpreted not on the subjective criterion of an individual 's own opinion but on the objective standard of what a good man would think in the circumstances . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The dissemination of these views in adult education is based not on a class or race or gender analysis of inequality but on notions of feckless , unconfident , incompetent individuals who , because of learning difficulties or lack of social and life skills , are inadequate in their day-to-day lives . |
| 9 | He first of all asked for a mandate based not on the distortions of a month 's electioneering but on his 16 months in the leadership , not least his performance on the international stage . |
| 10 | In Britain , most juries would find it depraving and corrupting to solicit members of the public to become voyeurs of an actual rape , murder , and dismemberment , but a new criminal test based not on the effect of the work , but on the circumstances of its production could provide one more useful link in the chain of criminal provisions which modern media law requires . |
| 11 | Once again , it is necessary that the separate items should be demonstrably reliable and valid , since specific interpretations may well be based not on the accumulation of correct and incorrect responses , but on the child 's pattern of scores . |
| 12 | It is based not on the mythico-religious system resistant to challenge but on the exchange relations of the commodity market including the labour market . |
| 13 | It is against a background of near hysteria that we set out to propose an alternative account of what is happening on the football terraces — an account based not on the second-hand rhetoric of myth-creating media men but on our faith in people 's ability to render their own social action intelligible and meaningful . |
| 14 | It had resulted in the allocation of funds based not on the best interests of justice but on value for money . |
| 15 | So , underlying this chapter is a theory of ageing based not on the analysis of biologically determined differences in senescence or individual adjustments to the ageing process but , instead , on the social creation of dependent status and on the structural relationships between older people and younger adults and between different groups of older people , especially men and women . |
| 16 | The Community Charge was to be based not on the household , but on the individual . |
| 17 | That reform will be based not on the discriminatory attitudes of Mr. MacSharry but on a sensible policy of supporting agriculture fairly throughout the Community , bringing agriculture closer to the market and ensuring that the environment is a central concern of the CAP . |
| 18 | Turning now to the income-related benefits , as the House knows , the uprating is , in this respect , based not on the full retail prices index , but on what is known as the Rossi index , which , in essence , is the RPI less housing costs but which we have this year brought more exactly into line with what the benefits are intended to cover by including in the calculation 20 per cent . |
| 19 | After all , the increase in turnover and sales in the past year is based not on the Smart Rope — which will not go into full production until the end of the year — but on intensive and intelligent marketing of the company 's traditional products . |
| 20 | The treatment of intonational subordination is based not on the work of Brazil but on Crystal and Quirk ( 1964 ) , pp. 52–6 and Crystal ( 1969 ) , pp. 235–52 . |
| 21 | By 1952 , however , the attention of ‘ pro-Europeans ’ was focused not on the ECSC but on the European Defence Community ( EDC ) . |
| 22 | Mr. David Pannick , appearing for the applicants , submitted that the language of section 9(4) focused not on the historic question of how the relevant information was acquired by the intended witness , but upon the contemporaneous question of the capacity in which the evidence is to be given . |
| 23 | Whilst Field does not emphasise an ethnic dimension to this underclass , it is clear that public fears are focused not on the elderly , sick or female , but on the young , especially young men — and particularly young black men . |
| 24 | Life is centred not on the neighbourhood or the street but on the home . |
| 25 | And it 's got to be continued not on the subject of existing gears , which is what it this last conversation is about |
| 26 | The controversy immediately focussed not on the substantive issue ( although all the major parties apart from the UNR opposed the change ) but on the procedure which de Gaulle had proposed . |
| 27 | Frequently , this orthographic evidence for variation in Middle English is rejected not on the grounds that the scribe was literally an Anglo-Norman ( which is what Skeat argued ) , but that uses such as variable h are originally scribal importations from French or Latin usage . |
| 28 | The study by Arnoult ( 1953 ) , mentioned in the preceding section of this chapter , included a condition in which the subjects were tested not on a discriminative motor task but on a task which required them to make a judgement about whether two stimuli presented together were the same as or different from one another . |