Example sentences of "not on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
| 2 | Even if a job spreads over several days , the first half hour rate should be charged on the first day and not on the others . |
| 3 | Right , so I , I 've put , got the range names on the first two , but not on the others . |
| 4 | I 'm confident musicians will continue to judge our products on their performance , and not on the opinions of Mr.Peavey . |
| 5 | In deciding where to place contracts in 1992 – 93 , DHAs put much weight on the opinions of GPs , but not on the opinions of the public . |
| 6 | According to my account of differentiation theory , however , the effect of discrimination training depends not on the associations it creates but on the fact that it concentrates the subject , s attention on distinctive features of the stimuli . |
| 7 | Much of the power in both the House and the Senate resides not on the floor of the relevant house ( though the ultimate veto is there ) but rather in the various standing committees of each . |
| 8 | Oliver 's bag was not on the floor . |
| 9 | The purpose of of these four orders , which I must say I greatly welcome , it is one of the , the most beneficial things to come out of the B C C I er disaster er and er i if I can say in in effectively in answer to everything the honourable gentleman for Great Grimsby said and he and I have debated on many occasions , if fact usually on the television not on the floor of the house , but er an an an an because of it for not quite so long either , er but erm th the point I would make to his is that really what he was saying was th that what went wrong with B C C I is that Price Waterhouse knew there was fraud and did n't say so and that wha what Lord Justice Bingham pointed out was that there is a clear conflict of interest between the interest of the client who they work for and the public interest and that what needed , what was needed was some amendment to the banking act to clarify that and that is precisely what er this order actually does and you ca n't really er Madam Deputy Speaker , expect anyone to really seriously criticise the government when in actual fact not only have they come up with the regulation to deal with that but they 've also gone further and said we will apply this to financial services and to building societies and to insurance companies as well , just to be absolutely sure . |
| 10 | PEOPLE who help buy the homes they live in but whose names are not on the title deeds should be able to stop the legal owner selling over their heads , the Law Commission for England and Wales recommended yesterday . |
| 11 | They are not well off , but they are not on the breadline and it is to our credit that we have a structure that supports people when they are between jobs . |
| 12 | Rebate is only granted on the Council Tax itself and not on the Council water charge which is a separate liability . |
| 13 | Peggy was a little surprised to find that 48 , Beaconsfield Avenue was not on the council estate but was one of a terrace of small houses , with front iron-railed , enclosed gardens and all neatly kept . |
| 14 | Her mind was not on the film , however , and she left after an hour . |
| 15 | That 's where it 's jumped , not on the film itself . |
| 16 | But we 're not on the flats in the daytime , |
| 17 | You thus come into the activity as the central person — not on the edge of the outside fringe of a circle but as the instigator , the person with expertise to offer . |
| 18 | It is from this stance that there has been much recent emphasis on subject depth in the training of teachers , and a virtual embargo on teaching for those with degrees in subjects ‘ not on the school timetable ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm not on the run now , ’ she pointed out . |
| 20 | British people are not on the dole in Germany ; they are on the dole in Britain . |
| 21 | As for those remaining at Smiths they can only hope that the recession has done it 's worst — and that further job cuts are not on the horizon . |
| 22 | Or how about your every day football manager , suspect to the whims of ambitious chairmen and demands of football fans who hail you one minute and then call for your head if the glint of silverware is not on the horizon . |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing , ’ she croaked , ‘ but not on the top of a ladder . ’ |
| 24 | The Bill as introduced sought by clause 54(4) to tax in-house benefits on a different basis from other benefits , i.e. , not on the cost of the in-house benefit to the employer but on the open market price charged to the public . |
| 25 | In order to produce their results , they need to use the microcomputer and the equipment and the focus is therefore , not on the keyboard but on the screen . |
| 26 | Not on the settee |
| 27 | We 're not on the river , we 're not in the gym , we 're in a big old family house in London , because this is where Oxford 's runaway success is planned and carefully prepared year after year . |
| 28 | The system retains the principle of funding from general taxation , with treatment largely free at the point of use , and not on the ability to pay . |
| 29 | When it was taken up with the Headmaster he said that the boy 's name was not on the roll , they did not know of him . |
| 30 | British Telecom directories and area codes are also based on service delivery and not on the existence of defined regions . |