Example sentences of "not [prep] its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art of a purpose , not for its own sake , was his rubric . |
| 2 | Not for its own sake , naturally , but because apart from any useful function that may be fulfilled , it encourages a proper disregard of Self . |
| 3 | The Formalists evaluate literary form for its perceptibility and not for its mimetic capacity . |
| 4 | Two of the 29 who held the inquiry were members of the Medical Defence Union but not of its managing body . |
| 5 | The exquisite fragrance we like to remember is a product of the ripened maturity of their faith and not of its earlier stages . |
| 6 | The basic limitation on the sovereignty of any Warsaw Pact country is , obviously , the imposition of a regime not of its own choosing . |
| 7 | In a clear reference to past failures by an Association which has , in years gone by , been unwilling to respond positively either to anything which is not of its own making , or anybody who is not on its payroll , Pickard went on to state , ‘ If we do not respond , for whatever reasons , keep knocking at the door until someone answers . ’ |
| 8 | Its major weakness was not of its own making ; rather it lay in the narrow geographical confines to which it was addressed : the Administrative County of London , whereas territorially what was in fact London spread far wider than that . |
| 9 | He argued that the institution was now facing financial penalties not of its own making . |
| 10 | While there was general agreement as to the impossibility of imposing obligations on a third State by treaty , there were two major schools of thought with respect to rights ; some members felt that a treaty could not of its own force create rights for non-parties ( and thus would require acceptance by a non-party through a form of collateral agreement ) , while others ( including all four Special Rapporteurs ) rejected this view . |
| 11 | Gorbachev nevertheless apparently conceded that " one of the options " was German membership solely of NATO , but not of its military command ( as was the case with France ) . |
| 12 | And Lord Hodson was concerned primarily with the substantive merits and demerits of the Bill , not with its legal technicalities . |
| 13 | She skirted a hen house , not in its first youth but stalwart enough to keep out foxes . |
| 14 | The importance of Stonyditch Point as the end of the spit for a long period is emphasised by the position of Orford , which was well situated as a port when the Ness ended at Stonyditch Point and not in its present position some miles to the south . |
| 15 | Indeed , it may not be going too far to say that without J. G. Crowther New Scientist would not be here , certainly not in its present form . |
| 16 | The annal concerned can not in its present form be strictly contemporary , for nobody would have identified Swegen by referring to him as Cnut 's father at this date , but this is not an adequate reason for rejecting its information . |
| 17 | But much of it is equally applicable to debentures and many of the statutory provisions expressly apply equally to them , though it is clear that when they do so ‘ debentures ’ is usually used in its narrow sense of debenture stock or a series of identical debentures and not in its wider meaning of a single mortgage , charge or bond . |
| 18 | Its appeal , however , lies not in its fragrant bouquet but in its potency : some teenagers call it ‘ liquid crack ’ . |
| 19 | Thus , a director must account to the company for any commissions he receives on company contracts , because he receives them only by virtue of his position as a director , and he could have been induced to encourage the company to enter into a contract which is not in its best interest . |
| 20 | A book not in its correct place on the library shelf may be : |
| 21 | If a letter was not in its correct place , it was not counted . |
| 22 | I use the word not in its snobbish sense , but as a scientist uses it . |
| 23 | What may , however , be justiciable is the procedural aspect : recitals to Community legislation on matters not within its exclusive jurisdiction which made no reference to the principle of subsidiarity might well be susceptible to challenge . |
| 24 | If a company hires out equipment for a given time on payment of a fixed fee , its profit derives from the contract of hire and not from its continued forbearance from seeking to recover that equipment during the contract period . |
| 25 | Foreign visitors sometimes suppose that the region gets its name not from its environmental character but from the complexions of so many of its inhabitants , immigrant families from India , Pakistan and the Caribbean , drawn here in the boom years of the fifties and sixties , when jobs were plentiful , and now bearing the brunt of high unemployment . |
| 26 | The presence of aggression rooms where workers can relieve their frustration on plastic effigies of managers might indicate that loyalty is ‘ perishable and the tremendous fuss about loyalty results not from its spontaneous presence but the need to nurture it ’ ( Woronoff 1983 p.68 ) . |
| 27 | Mansfield Park , for example , is no less a great house because it has recently arrived , or because the income that supports it is drawn from the West Indies and not from its own land . |
| 28 | This case is not without its tragi-comic precedent . |
| 29 | In the developed world , the harnessing of fossil fuel energy as well as other scientific developments , and their application to agricultural systems , has opened up a new range of agricultural possibilities : but all this has happened over a relatively long time period and is not without its environmental implications . |
| 30 | Leaving aside for one moment the arguments advanced earlier about the morality of insider dealing , the use of inside information to compensate managers and entrepreneurs is not without its practical difficulties . |