Example sentences of "not on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Act Three 's just gone up , so she 'll be a while , but Miss Baird 's not on yet . |
| 2 | ‘ But even if you knew beforehand who was going to get — say — the fifth plate , how could you put poison on it and not on the other plates ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Not on stage , anyway . ’ |
| 4 | They focus not on areas of need but on areas where they want to be seen to be giving , and that 's usually where the spotlight happens for the moment to be falling . |
| 5 | Although they will grow on successfully when put out into the garden in spring or summer , the flowers you get in future years may well turn pink if you are not on an acid soil . |
| 6 | I then found my application for financial assistance for part-time study had been rejected ‘ because anthropology is not on the approved list of subjects ( in the Circular ) ’ ( Memo from HQ 1977 ) . |
| 7 | Your weight rests on the balls of your feet , not on the heels , so the calves are under tension . |
| 8 | Not on that date , nor on the ones that followed . |
| 9 | ‘ You 're not on the rota for cooking . ’ |
| 10 | The earlier traditions had focused not on experience as the key element in mind , but on intellect and thought ; it was this that made mind special and different from anything physical . |
| 11 | However loans can be available to meet the costs of fuel which are not on mains supply , such as coal , oil , paraffin , or bottled ( LPG ) gas . |
| 12 | This is when a phrase finishes on the second ( or weak ) and not on the first or third beat of a final bar . |
| 13 | A smaller SA system is available for people with smaller backs , but unfortunately not on the Condor . |
| 14 | The good news is that you are not on your own ; many owners share your problem . |
| 15 | I thought , ‘ Not on your nelly ! ’ |
| 16 | Raskolnikov has admitted to visiting the old woman on the first occasion but of course not on the second . |
| 17 | That is why , instead of taking the weakness of his desires to himself , Stavrogin continues in figurative , musing vein , sad and free , very beautiful in context : ‘ You can cross a river on a tree-trunk , but not on a chip of wood . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ . All quite true of course , but it has little or nothing to do with the passage in question , whoch focuses very markedly not on Aeneas but on his father Anchises : |
| 19 | The latest CBI surveys suggest that more stockbuilding has indeed occurred , although not on a scale sufficient to explain the trade figures . |
| 20 | Mr Porras is not on the list of 12 ‘ most wanted ’ suspects whose extradition is sought by the US . |
| 21 | He is a veteran campaigner against the screening system , but at 76 , time is not on his side . |
| 22 | BSB has its satellite in space but is not on the air , and Murdoch laid claim yesterday to reaching only 509,000 households in Britain . |
| 23 | The item is simply not on Neil Kinnock 's agenda . |
| 24 | In debating it today the Labour Conference should focus not on its tactical advantages but on the kind of political system it wishes to see . |
| 25 | Dr Geoffrey Wyatt , the paediatrician who was her ‘ partner in crime ’ to those who can not believe they were even remotely right , still works in Middlesbrough , though not on child abuse . |
| 26 | For once attention could be focused not on its divisions , but on its policies . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ Communism is not on the agenda today as a social formation . ’ |
| 28 | A libel trial is in large parts intensely soporific , if you are not on the receiving end . |
| 29 | Contact your ward councillor and try to interest him or her — even if they are not on the committee they may be able to influence the councillors who will take the decision . |
| 30 | At the time , in a cosmopolitan place , racism was not on the agenda . |