Example sentences of "[adj] not [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask this not because I believe that he does n't care passionately about Mahler 's music — you only have to hear the vocal exhortations with which he galvanises the Boston players at the most intense moments in the score to realise this . |
| 2 | I say this not because any holder of judicial office should ever regard it as an affront to be overruled by an appellate court but merely to emphasise that as a practical matter the chances are that the visitor probably will get it right . |
| 3 | All this not because these are inherently interesting and broadly educative studies ( though they are ) but because they are in the mid-eighties , whatever may have been the case at an earlier period , indispensable . |
| 4 | I say this not as any kind of boring Hemingway boast , merely to point out that if you are having trouble conceiving , my advice to you would be to rush out and buy a pair of green suede baby shoes . |
| 5 | Unlike other family dependants … women are economically dependent not because they need care but because they give it . |
| 6 | Well , no , I 'm afraid not and it 's , it 's a sad state of affairs , I mean when you see |
| 7 | Di did that not because erm as capitalist countries we would perceive anything communist as being the enemy and so it , it 's actually in our interests to , to , to lump them all together rather than question because |
| 8 | It 's true that that is a common feature really from the time of for the last five hundred million years , from the time of the earliest fish to ourselves and to the birds and everybody else , but it 's like that not because there is some kind of profound law of form , which says that 's the kind of organism which is in permitted by the laws of development to arise , erm I mean the law form would be something like erm a law of physics which says that if objects move round the sun they 're going to do so in ellipses with the sun at one focus . |
| 9 | Do n't do that not when I 'm reading the paper right . |
| 10 | She got out as soon as she could , and found work in the weaving sheds — " she was a good weaver ; six looms under her by the time she was sixteen " — marry , produce nine children , eight of whom emigrated to the cotton mills of Massachusetts before the First World War , managed , " never went before the Guardians " .1 It was much , much later that I learned from One Hand Tied Behind Us that four was the usual number of looms for a Lancashire weaver ; Burnley weavers were not well organised , and my great-grandmother had six not because she was a good weaver but because she was exploited . " |
| 11 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 12 | I voted Tory not because I want to earn lots of money ( I am on the dole ) , but precisely because I object to the facile cynicism as witnessed above . |
| 13 | He is suspicious not because Read uses too much anthropological material , but because he uses too little . |
| 14 | Not cos like in physics we 're doing these not or nor gates like . |
| 15 | The person in question was a relative of hers and was killed or died I 'm sure not whether he was killed or died but certainly served in the forces in the four fourteen eighteen war in he was buried in . |
| 16 | So addicted were they to this practice , which relieved their frugal existence by exporting their products to the more populous dales , that they earned a reputation as ‘ the terrible knitters of Dent ’ : terrible not because their handiwork was slipshod but because of their complete dedication to the craft . |
| 17 | The exaction in this case was accordingly unlawful not because of what the corporation did but because of what the plaintiff did not do . |
| 18 | Here the support of the infinitive ( specified by him ) is involved in the wanting not as its subject but as its direct object . |
| 19 | In 1 , dogs and animals are within the scope ( ’ field of action ’ ) both of the negative not and the universal quantifier all ; in 2 , scarlet and red are within the scope of not , and form part of a conditional clause ; in 3 , cars and vehicles are within the scope of all , and are part of a conditional clause : |
| 20 | Tories opposed the new credit system set up in the 1690s not because they objected to this type of economic enterprise , but because the benefits to be accrued from it largely passed them by . |
| 21 | Within Christianity bread and wine are sacramental not because they just happened to be on the table for a Jewish meal but because they were signs of the covenant . |
| 22 | A women quoted in Ethel Elderton 's 1914 study declared that she 'd ‘ rather swallow the druggist 's shop and the man i n't than have another kid ’ . |
| 23 | I want our house valued now well not just yet , we want the garden finished first not that it matters a lot . |
| 24 | Bradley and Gelb find against that possibility : Not , then , a special case ; successful not because it is Basque , but essentially because it is co-operative . |
| 25 | O. clavigera can easily be distinguished from O. globifera by the following characters : the plates of the dorsal side are thin not as well developed as in O. globifera ; the spinelets of O. clavigera often have an enlarged rugose tip , those of O. globifera are all of one kind , low and rugose , nearly granuliform ; the apical and oral papillae of O. globifera are shorter and not as rugose as those of O. clavigera ; the oral shield is more regularly rhombic in O. globifera than O. clavigera and the tentacles scales of O. globifera are large rounded while those of O. clavigera are small and spine-like . |
| 26 | The true moral seems to be that a choice is difficult not because we can not decide which is the better but because we can not bear to give up the one that has not been chosen . |
| 27 | This observation is necessary not because the lines quoted are of great importance to her poetry , but to give a balanced view of her own conflicts as a domestic servant . |
| 28 | All these economies were necessary not because the women 's husbands were unwilling to share the money but usually because none was available . |
| 29 | The foetus may become handicapped not because it is genetically abnormal or have a metabolic defect , but because it contracts a disease or infection while in the womb . |
| 30 | This could be by one side wearing party hats and the other not or the teams could be divided according to sex . |