Example sentences of "not [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rarely smiled but this was not through a lack of good nature : her responsibilities had given her a serious expression . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Jesus liberated not through a programme of political activism , but simply through his spoken word . |
| 5 | Jalloud also invited a French examining magistrate , Jean-Louis Bruguière , to return , " but not aboard a warship " . |
| 6 | ‘ Not worth a damn , no . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The male contestants , the jury found , were not worth a mention . |
| 10 | It is not worth a mention but for the fact its distribution and promotion is funded by our own dear British Film Institute . |
| 11 | His Poems , think them all not worth a Straw . |
| 12 | The love of old men is not worth a lot , |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | The whole of French music is not worth a sou … |
| 15 | The firm is able to act within the FSA but unlike traditional lead advisers ( i.e. the merchant banks ) is governed by an Institute and not as a member of the Stock Exchange or Securities and Futures Authority . |
| 16 | Not as a member of the human race , but you matter to God as an individual , as a person with all your strengths , your weaknesses , with all our peculiarities and our points , as individuals , we matter to God ! |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm ready to go with you to India , but as a sister , not as a wife . ’ |
| 18 | For although his authority was supreme , he preferred to regard himself not as a dictator but as a partner , acting together with directors , players and everyone else in the club in a common purpose . |
| 19 | Now , as the party fodder turned up in their glittering clothes , I began to see that Eva was using the evening not as a celebration but as her launch into London . |
| 20 | Mind you , he had told Sean he was speaking as a brother , not as a policeman , you understand . |
| 21 | A fixed charge may of course be attacked as a preference where it is given to secure past value but not as a transaction at an undervalue since the assets of the company are not diminished by the creation of the charge . |
| 22 | This is particularly so for workers whose lives are related to work not as a vocation or as a career , but as a job for earning money to spend in private . |
| 23 | A student of mine who saw the Hollywood film Witness , which featured the Amish community , wondered whether we should think of their way of life not as a residue of the past but the way of the future ! |
| 24 | After a break during the Franco-Prussian war , in which he was actively involved , though not as a combatant , his thoughts on tragedy took final shape in 1871 . |
| 25 | If Britain had an interest in European co-operation it was as a way to withstand Soviet pressure and underpin British independence , not as a way to control Germany . |
| 26 | Some only found out when their supplier told them that they could no longer buy tetra unless they could certify that it was going to be used in a ‘ non-dispersive manner ’ — ie not as a solvent even in a closed system . |
| 27 | ‘ But there are powerful arguments for custody , not as a sentence of first resort but certainly as one weapon in the ‘ armoury ’ . |
| 28 | It was not surprising that the police and the courts saw him not as a threat , scarcely even as a nuisance , but an eccentric example of English political freedom . |
| 29 | If the whites in Southern Africa could see this , not as a threat but as an opportunity — if they could grasp the truth that by a change of will and spirit they could deprive the Communists of their best propaganda weapon — there still might just be time for things to move in a new direction . |
| 30 | There is another way of understanding the cold war , not as a conflict but as a kind of collusion , although the term ‘ collusion ’ perhaps implies too much conscious purpose . |