Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [prep] [noun] and not " in BNC.

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1 There 's millions of junkies and not one of them ever wanted to be a junkie . ’
2 The question is one of degree and not of kind , for , were Christianity not to some extent shaped by those cultures in which it existed , it would not speak a language understood by the majority of those whom it addressed .
3 If you are being honest with yourself and with her and you really are terribly pressed for time , you will never be short of concrete reasons to give , and she will find these much more acceptable and less hurtful than vague excuses , provided , of course , that your overall treatment of her is one of care and not neglect .
4 But he is open to God and not afraid to follow what God says .
5 We hear of the sexual revolution which is supposed to have happened sometime in the 1960s and liberated women from the constraints of Victorian ideology with its oppressive double standard in which non-marital sex is alright for men and not for women .
6 Learn to look for what is positive in others and not for what is negative .
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