Example sentences of "not [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | No no , not really , not , not between not between a married couple no . |
| 2 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 3 | Jesus liberated not through a programme of political activism , but simply through his spoken word . |
| 4 | A popular modern interpretation of liberal ideas argues that private autonomy should be lost not through a special exercise of choice but rather through causing harm , or the risk of causing harm , to others . |
| 5 | James Coats , junior ( 1841–1912 ) , was a member of the Paisley family of industrialists J. & P. Coats , whom most of us know best as the makers of sewing cotton but he appears to have made the presentation of these libraries Personally and not through a trust established in connection with the firm . |
| 6 | She rarely smiled but this was not through a lack of good nature : her responsibilities had given her a serious expression . |
| 7 | To cover costs for the first £320 you may either pay us a non-refundable damage/loss excess waiver of £32 per yacht ( £7 each for a Share a Yacht or Pot Luck ) , or lodge ( direct with us , not through a travel agent ) a security deposit of £320 per yacht ( £70 each if sharing ) at the time of making your final payment . |
| 8 | forty , twenty five watts or less , forty watts nominal the ones I 'm running not through a hundred watt channel , er |
| 9 | The individual Jew must make his own pact with the Almighty , and pray directly to Him , not through an agent . |
| 10 | Althusser shared Sartre 's opposition to Stalinism 's emphasis on economism and technical determinism , dissociating himself from it not through an assertion of individual agency but through a reformulation of the Marxist thesis of determination by economic relations — redefined as a causal rather than a historical relation . |
| 11 | Jalloud also invited a French examining magistrate , Jean-Louis Bruguière , to return , " but not aboard a warship " . |
| 12 | The male contestants , the jury found , were not worth a mention . |
| 13 | A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight . |
| 14 | ALL THE PAIN THAT MONEY CAN BUY : The Life of Christina Onassis by William Wright Gollancz , £5.99 MANY MIGHT think that Christina Onassis 's 37 years of life , notable only for her four marriages and succession of lovers , is not worth a full-scale biography , certainly not one of almost 400 pages . |
| 15 | His Poems , think them all not worth a Straw . |
| 16 | The whole of French music is not worth a sou … |
| 17 | Cheap reels are not worth a second thought . |
| 18 | Solidarity with the Spanish Republic undermined the pacifism of many on the left , and Russell knew that he was swimming against the tide when he urged the friends of peace to ‘ avoid the crusading spirit … in relation to Spain , on the grounds that even the best cause is not worth a great war . ’ |
| 19 | It is not worth a mention but for the fact its distribution and promotion is funded by our own dear British Film Institute . |
| 20 | ‘ Not worth a damn , no . |
| 21 | So before you decide that you 're not worth a hundred and fifty thousand pound do actually sit down and work it out . |
| 22 | She 's not worth a second thought . |
| 23 | The love of old men is not worth a lot , |
| 24 | After the inglorious fall of his Government , accompanied as it was by a whole series of faux pas , Ramsay MacDonald 's future , crowed the wiseacres of London , was not worth a single cent . |
| 25 | It 's it 's not worth a marriage no more because the C S A and because of people like them sat there that think they know it all . |
| 26 | I 've taken all that you 've and to be honest there 's not , there 's not a , it 's not worth a , it 's not worth a light , it 's you , I 'm be getting rid of that straight away ! |
| 27 | I 've taken all that you 've and to be honest there 's not , there 's not a , it 's not worth a , it 's not worth a light , it 's you , I 'm be getting rid of that straight away ! |
| 28 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 29 | I have also campaigned for the Government to give AIDS greater recognition , not as a disease affecting specific sectors of the community , but as a social problem for which there must be adequate welfare provision . |
| 30 | I have also campaigned for the Government to give AIDS greater recognition , not as a disease affecting specific sectors of the community , but as a social problem for which there must be adequate welfare provision . |