from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

htmlelement = """
<tbody>
  <tr style="">
     <td><a>27A-TAX DISTRICT</a> 27A</td>
  </tr>

  <tr style="">
     <td><strong>Parcel Number</strong> 720</td>
  </tr>
</tbody>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlelement,"lxml")
item = soup.select_one("tr:not(a)").text
print(item)

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

htmlelement = """
<p class="vital">I should be printed</p>
<p>I should not be printed</p>
"""
soup = BeautifulSoup(htmlelement,"lxml")
item = soup.select_one("p:has(.vital)").text
print(item)