Example sentences of "not [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More important one should realize that attempts at accommodation between the two new Republics , French and Vietnamese , were taking place not between two sovereign states but between two political forces in the same country , each in the throes of revolution , each unwilling to concede sovereignty to the other . |
| 2 | that 's the reason they went out with those particular mailings , not through any great process of choice . |
| 3 | Commonly enough , melodies are accompanied by harmonies which create atmospheric colour , not through any specific movement of parts ( i.e. rhythmic designs ) but through the beauty of the harmonies themselves and their special relationship with the melody . |
| 4 | He took slightly more interest in his two sons , Arthur and Alan , but not through any natural preference for them ; it was simply that with them he knew better what questions should be asked . |
| 5 | And Fry and the other new pop stars ( Human League , Kid Creole , Soft Cell , Culture Club ) also realized that pop works not through any old combination of sound , image and personality , but through their combination as a commercial package . |
| 6 | This was not through any idealistic belief in unity for its own sake , but because of the way these states viewed their national interests . |
| 7 | Favours are won through reciprocity , not through militant industrial action . |
| 8 | ‘ Once we unite the economy and build one apparatus … all this notorious self-determination is not worth one rotten egg . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It 's not about these young chaps in particular , it 's about bottom , ’ boomed McAlpine , who is being described as Neil Kinnock 's speechwriter after the Labour leader , in his resignation statement , quoted his article praising the contribution of the Tory tabloids to the election victory . |
| 10 | For example , a region of the brain that showed increased electrical activity during sexual behaviour , but not during other motivational processes or comparable movements , would have a sexual function ascribed . |
| 11 | Certainly not for that hapless lad sleeping in a narrow stone cell at this moment . |
| 12 | North replied , without a second thought , ‘ Not for one fleeting moment . ’ |
| 13 | Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive . |
| 14 | It is not for such radical views , strongly held through they were , that she is remembered , but for the understanding support she gave to thousands of working-class women , giving them the confidence to venture into public life . |
| 15 | It was a genuine mix-up , but it worked out for me — — and not for poor old Mr Munro . |
| 16 | The staff are great but , like many venues around the world , it was built for the architect 's vision , not for practical multi-purpose use into the twenty-first century . |
| 17 | ‘ Windows was not considered robust enough , Novell 's NetWare was considered good for sharing files but not for these new applications . |
| 18 | ‘ Windows was not considered robust enough , Novell 's NetWare was considered good for sharing files but not for these new applications . |
| 19 | The Morton group are seriously looking at adding more units to their press in order to give more colour capacity but this would be reserved primarily for advertisers and not for further editorial colour . |
| 20 | Ken particularly used to enjoy the murder trials — not for any morbid curiosity , but for the drama unfolding . |
| 21 | In the complex interactions between myself and the countless others with whom I am remotely or directly engaged , my self-awareness and the self-regarding inclinations which it generates may occupy only a small part of my field of awareness , and not for any moral reason ; I feel myself spontaneously pulled towards admiration as well as pride , submission as well as power , masochism as well as sadism , judging myself from other viewpoints as well is judging others from mine . |
| 22 | In fact , as we have already indicated , there can be little doubt that the most important and overriding purpose of comparative studies is not for any practical policy implications which may be derived . |
| 23 | ‘ I would like to think that Sparky still has it as his major ambition to play here and not for any other club . ’ |
| 24 | but erm then became , we got round to the erm question of getting the children into similar schools to the ones that they 'd been in and erm I came into this , in fact I came into all sorts of things erm well by accident then I suppose anyway not for any other reason but erm Mr erm who was the Secretary for Education , he had a Personal Assistant a chap named erm erm he was a very likeable chap erm and er a rather ec bit of an eccentric really because erm he 'd been erm , he 'd trained as a doctor and erm he 'd left the course before completing it . |
| 25 | They will be designed not for any particular proportion of the ability range but for all candidates whatever their ability relative to other candidates who are able to reach the standards required for the award of particular grades in each subject . |
| 26 | My colleagues and I will vote against the Bill , and not for any obscure reason . |
| 27 | We 're resistant to it not for any dogmatic reason but we do n't feel that local democracy is necessarily improved by the County Council d d ducking it 's decision . |
| 28 | Directors owe a duty of care and skill ; a duty of loyalty ; and a duty to act bona fide in the best interests of the company and not for any improper purpose . |
| 29 | Thus the duty of care prevents directors from acting wholly unreasonably ; the duty of loyalty ensures that their decisions are not biased ; and the duty to act bona fide in the interests of the company and not for any improper purpose is almost identical in its formulation as a standard of review to the administrative law test striking down decisions which are taken for an improper purpose . |
| 30 | The duty of loyalty has generally been invoked to prevent directors from having a personal financial interest in a decision , whilst the duty to act not for any improper purpose has sometimes been invoked to rule out decisions where directors have some other sort of personal but not directly financial interest in the decision . |