Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [not/n't] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 We must sustain the infrastructure of the arts in this time of recession by spreading the funds available to all forms of the arts and not to a select few with a special clout .
2 A policy basis for this rule might be that the preferable way to protect employment rights is by an action for unfair dismissal before an Industrial Tribunal or by an ordinary action for breach of contract ; and that in cases with no clear public element recourse should be had to such alternative remedies and not to an AJR in the High Court .
3 Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker .
4 ‘ It 's very different only qualifying for 30 minutes and not for an hour .
5 How do we ensure that management is seen as a set of empowering activities and not as a control activity ?
6 Thus the WFS data on abstinence in many countries significantly underestimated the prevalence of post-partum abstinence , since most women in these countries observe the custom for health reasons and not as a contraceptive measure .
7 In the critical approach to knowledge , both the commonsense view and the academic view of the world are seen as views and not as an absolute account of the world .
8 I , I , I think Chairman that on the , the case to which you refer as , as I recollect it was very much on the specific wording of the er restriction which erm was found to fail , because it applied to a number of houses and not to a specific property and er clearly care will have to be given by the districts that happens in imposing conditions to make sure that it will erm appertain to each individual property within a development so that the occupancy condition can be can be informed .
9 The frequency of sessions should be determined by the patient 's needs and not by a rigid ( e.g. weekly ) schedule .
10 Talk is primarily for the participants and not for an outside audience .
11 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 .
12 He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates .
13 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 . "
14 The concentration of phospholipids was also higher in the cholesterol gall stone patients but not to a significant degree .
15 For the Formalists originality is constituted only by a reworking of the available devices and not by a personal vision in the lived experience of writers .
16 It was impossible not to feel that she had been badly treated , but the bad treatment came from the intransigent doctors and not from a Prime Minister who , as she must have known , was immensely supportive and would not willingly have been associated with any slight on her .
17 At one time it was thought that the section only applied to express agreements and not to an implied agreement .
18 However , so long as the figures are seen as illustrations of typical developments and not as a catalogue of all possible types of flow , this may not matter much .
19 I write to you in the full possession of my faculties and not as a madman but as the brother you know .
20 She would have preferred a romantic candlelit dinner for two , but even more , she wanted Josh to see David as one of life 's pluses and not as an interloper .
21 He approved of Clarkson 's travels to secure witnesses for the Privy Council hearings but not as a focus for popular agitation .
22 Mark Rees ' comments in these directions seem particularly confused and confusing ; ’ I was attracted to women but not as a lesbian I felt totally wrong in that role .
23 Here , indications for hydrothermal activity along Hercynian striking fractures were found , so that a strong but short heat supply may be assumed , leading to local coalification maxima but not to a significant loss of reservoir porosity .
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