Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most diurnal raptors it was difficult to obtain large enough samples , not through any shortage of pellet collections but because they contained so little bone . |
| 2 | This is not through any lack of distinction on the part of the writers of the time or those of their works that show the Greek influence ; nor is there any lack of such works . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ When police officers attended the scene it became apparent that the media were also in attendance — how they came to be in attendance is not known and not through any action on our part . |
| 4 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 5 | There can be little doubt that , in the aftermath of the crisis of 1916–17 , Nizan gradually , irreversibly began to perceive his father as a loser ; a loser not through any fault of his own , other than a selfconfessed lack of bourgeois schooling and culture . |
| 6 | One of the changes she made was to include a check in the action , abandoning what had become a ‘ bouncing ’ action , not through any fault in her father 's design but because the technique of those whose ‘ strength ’ knew ‘ no moderation ’ had superseded those whose playing was ‘ soft and melting ’ Between 1796 , when von Schönfeld used those words , and 1809 when Reichardt wrote his letter , the potential of the new instrument became generally accepted in Vienna . |
| 7 | The possibility of mutually advantageous trade which standard competitive theory would associate with point A is devoid of operational significance , not through any unwillingness on the part of workers or employers to exploit such an opportunity , but through their impotence to affect the only price that matters in this market , the real wage rate . |
| 8 | Higginson , crowning his " busy life among " the Stockport boys ' ventured to make some comments to the Governors in a letter on 14th June , " not through any belief that , in your present position in financial and other matters , you can act upon them soon ; but when and if the ability comes " . |
| 9 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 10 | The way to convince this Matron of my mother 's extreme need of a hospital bed is not through any show of carelessness on my part . |
| 11 | Lifeboats were called out 555 times to people who were in distress but not aboard any craft or vessel , and 185 lives were saved on these calls . |
| 12 | The girl was well enough — all the better for hating and fighting him ! — but not worth that risk . |
| 13 | The loan was refused after a valuation proved the house was not worth that amount . |
| 14 | ‘ Your family is not worth this £81.84 you have spent . ’ |
| 15 | It will be shown , as was already briefly hinted earlier on , that the concept of objective order is inseparable from the idea of a plurality of witnessing selves — a " self " to be understood here in the sense of an experienced unity of biographical time , not as some kind of substantival entity — and the idea of error ; and that the latter ideas in turn can be clarified only through a careful study of the nature of language . |
| 16 | Yes , in Vienna , a lady , I will not say her name but assure you that any conversation I had with poor little Mrs Crump was most decidedly not on this subject and not about this lady — she has clearly clutched at a reference and taken it for a confidence — in Vienna , this lady of , I may admit it , royal connection , formed an attachment for me which was not reciprocated but proved most difficult to disengage . |
| 17 | The recipient Party further undertakes to the supplying Party that it will not during that period use the same except in or for the said purposes . |
| 18 | For official purposes your working life is between 16 and 60 whether you are actually employed or not during those years . |
| 19 | However even the ‘ effective Cabinet ’ was not during this period a real political organism . |
| 20 | Not for many people it is n't . |
| 21 | Indeed , not for many years yet do we come upon any positive evidence of revival . |
| 22 | Not for many years has the complacency of the legal profession about the state of our legal system been so severely jolted as by the series of lectures delivered in the last fortnight by Sir Leslie Scarman , a distinguished Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 23 | You gets what you pay for which nowadays is n't a lot , not for that money . |
| 24 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | ‘ Not for that Judas ! |
| 26 | I know it 's against the rules but I was n't going to argue , not for that kind of money . ’ |
| 27 | Hastings ' previous dealings with the Tula tribe would seem rather to diminish the role played by force of personality in this affair , but the traveller and eccentric socialist R.B. Cunninghame Graham , who contributed an introduction to Hastings ' book , did not for that reason forbear to indicate that force of personality was precisely what it showed . |
| 28 | If counter-demonstrators determined to thwart the right of a person to speak unpopular opinions resort to force as a result of what he is saying , the speaker is not for that reason alone to be regarded as using threatening , abusive or insulting words or behaviour ‘ whereby it is likely that such violence will be provoked . ’ |
| 29 | Earlier this evening Graham I thought you erm made a complaint about the number of reports that are coming to committee er but it 's not for that reason that I wanted to dispose of this motion now erm but there are other reasons . |
| 30 | Not for that sort of er thing , no . |