Example sentences of "and not [subord] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 But if anarchists are right to think that it can never be made , this is for contingent reasons and not because of any inconsistency in the notion of a rational justification for authority , nor in the notion of authority over moral agents .
2 If the reason for dismissal is your employer 's desire to run the business cost-effectively and not because of any reduction in the number of employees needed to carry out your particular functions , you will not be redundant .
3 It is true that during the 1991/92 presidential year a certain amount of friction occurred between Moorgate Place and the district societies , but it should be made clear that this was almost entirely due to the funding problems and not because of any breakdown in the relationship between the national president and the district society presidents .
4 I 'd only once asked for a transfer and not because of any discontent or fall- out with the club .
5 As a formality , and not because of any expectations , Talbot and Carrington applied their stethoscopes to each cylinder in turn .
6 After condemning the ‘ Baudelairean ’ atmosphere of the nineteenth century ( ‘ it is the triumph of romantic disorder ’ ) , and its cult of individual genius , Jacob goes on to stress the objectivity of modern poetry ( which is by contrast ‘ a universal poetry ’ ) and the fact that a work of art ‘ is of value in itself and not because of any confrontation one can make with reality ’ .
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