Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was descended ( though not through the male line ) from the family that had built the ships for the old Fowey Gallants of fourteenth-century fame , whose piratical seamen who had dared disobey the Sovereign by plundering Frenchmen and had had their fleet confiscated and sent to Dartmouth for their pains . |
| 2 | The variations on this particular theme are pretty well endless : the financial side of a firm 's affairs may , for example , be treated quite separately from administration and its director of finance may report straight back to the partners and not through the managing partner or any management committee . |
| 3 | It recognises that the newer and better way to govern the law-breaker is not through the expiring system of the cell and the lash , but rather through the mind and the heart ( Bridgwater , 1909 , p. 9 ) . |
| 4 | This exhibition seeks to explore the question of mass-produced , sexual imagery , not through the written word , but through the visual language of the artist . |
| 5 | All protection is carried out through the power of the ‘ thoughts ’ of individuals , and not through the physical bellicosity of men in groups . |
| 6 | ‘ Not through the main street ? ’ |
| 7 | Whatever may be the attitude of any individual teacher , if s/he does not receive adequate support from the school in implementing change , s/he is likely to give up , or decide that the innovation is not worth the extra time and energy required . |
| 8 | If the surveyor states that the property is most definitely not worth the agreed price and the building society will not advance you the money you need , you have three choices : abandon the property and look again , or go to another building society and hope that another surveyor will not make the same judgement , or go to your vendor 's estate agent , explain the situation and hope that the vendor will drop the price . |
| 9 | It will provide you with two sides of an A4 sheet giving you very little detail about the property except that it is or is not worth the agreed purchase price . |
| 10 | Voluntariness will be understood , however , not as the decisive act by which an individual surrenders private autonomy , but rather as a deliberate entry into market relations under which certain obligations will arise in order to sustain and regulate an advanced division of labour . |
| 11 | Not as the prime objective , though that might well be a consequence . |
| 12 | By the time Khrushchev sat down , Stalin stood revealed not as the dear father but as the mass murderer of his people . |
| 13 | In South East Asian or Middle Eastern groups the concept of leaderless groups is absurd ( if for different reasons ) but this is not so in collective cultures ( Norway , Finland , Denmark ) where a leader can be seen as a facilitator not as the final word . |
| 14 | Unlike most doctors , he saw it , not as the final enemy , but as a fascinating enigma , each cadaver , which he would gaze at with the same intent look as he must once have fixed on his living patients , a new piece of evidence which might , if rightly interpreted , bring him closer to its central mystery . |
| 15 | ‘ . Primitive and child are again linked , but not as the second childhood of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 16 | In the Old Testament the Devil is usually portrayed as an adversary , not as the supreme evil being . |
| 17 | Britain 's importance now lies in being part of one of the world 's great trading blocs , the European Community , not as the ever-dependable ally of the Reagan and Bush years . |
| 18 | They would n't mellow into CD middle age , at least not as the original band . |
| 19 | ‘ For , ’ she put down , ‘ I want to go there as humble McAllister who keeps the house clean , dressed the doll and made and embroidered the baby clothes , not as the American Princess doing the gracious , ladling our Papa 's money , not one penny of which I have earned , smiling and patronising those not so fortunate as myself , and then leaving them to go home to the embassy — to forget them ! ’ |
| 20 | A person who approaches anywhere near this ideal affects us , not as the natural man freed of civilized restraints , but as cold and inhuman , rational to the point of emotional impoverishment . |
| 21 | From this perspective Levinas proposes the possibility that the much lamented ‘ subject ’ be brought back not as the ontological subject which seeks to reduce everything to itself but as an ethical subject defined in relation to the other : ‘ Ethics redefines subjectivity as this heteronomous responsibility in contrast to autonomous freedom ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I want you to regard me not as the last Viceroy winding up the British Raj ’ , he told Nehru , ‘ but as the first to lead the way to the new India . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Self-government ’ was thus conceived not as the inevitable prelude to letting India go , as it appeared at the time and has appeared since to eyes less clouded than Montagu 's by belief in the possibility of voluntary servitude , but as the natural means of keeping it . |
| 24 | The meeting at Evanston clinched the sense of scepticism which Ramsey felt , not about the ecumenical movement , but about its inflated claims and its mode of organization . |
| 25 | She looked shocked , but not about the dead body . |
| 26 | In the A major Quartet , among 20-odd entrances of the complete theme ( with the upbeat ) , twice Mozart wrote a stroke : at the start of the development for the first violin , four bars later for the imitative entrance of the cello , but not for the similar entrance in between , of the middle strings . |
| 27 | An ambitious lecturer in an English Department is writing for his peer group , not for the general public . |
| 28 | Text c is intended for specific addressees , not for the general public , and it is hard for the general public to interpret without access to shared presuppositions and previous experience which can not comfortably be forced into the framework proposed by Lewis . |
| 29 | The Ego wants us to develop talents and acquire knowledge , not for the sheer joy and challenge of playing the clarinet , reading Proust or rewiring the house , but so that we will be flattered and admired . |
| 30 | " Those papers are alright to read when you 're sitting on the toilet , but not for the financial news , " he once shouted . |