Example sentences of "not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the grammatical and lexical oppositions in a language are not between equal members of a pair , but between two entities one of which is more marked than the other … . |
| 2 | Hence we investigate transitions not between individual words but grammatical categories . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I visited them all , working through the morning , planting the dead wasp in its paper coffin not between two of the more important Poles , as I had intended originally , but under the path , just on the island side of the bridge . |
| 5 | It should be noted , however , that the disambiguation required by the present project is not between multiple word senses , but instead between multiple interpretations of the input . |
| 6 | But for Eliot now the choice was not between civilized and primitive society but between Christian , non-Christian , and anti-Christian orders.a Anthropology links with Conrad to counter the optimistic vision of a modern noble savagery , but the whole is seen in a new , explicitly Christian framework . |
| 7 | The choice in the Third World is not between foreign exploitative private capitalism and domestic altruistic communitarian enterprise , in the food or in any other industry . |
| 8 | The internal rhymes however operate not between even lines but between odd and even , 1 and 2 , 3 and 4 , and so on . |
| 9 | That 's the real distinction between people : not between those who have secrets and those who do n't , but between those who want to know everything and those who do n't . |
| 10 | The problems of the older cities were to be resolved — if resolved they ever were — on the spot and not through planned decentralization . |
| 11 | Virtue was manifested by acting virtuously , not through passive reflection . |
| 12 | Cavaillès developed these ideas into a theory of science as such , which , he argued , changed not through empirical discovery but through the theoretical reworking of its own concepts in the ‘ pure ’ sciences . |
| 13 | The second of the views we have noted derives from a claim that the route to indubitable knowledge is not through empirical experience of the external world , but through logical , that is rational , principles which are beyond doubt . |
| 14 | At the time , however , they were accepted ( indeed assiduously pored over and frequently quoted by Citrine and others ) as embodying two widely-approved aspirations : firstly , a general desire to spread the benefits of cheap electricity widely ( with the ‘ public interest ’ implicitly seen as overriding the tyranny of the profit-and-loss account ) ; and secondly ( but not entirely consistently ) the view that these economic objectives should be pursued not through political or civil service channels but by the ‘ business ’ board of a public corporation with some genuine independence . |
| 15 | But dominion in the Atlantic cable ventures came about not through technological pre-eminence but via another British near-monopoly at that time : capital . |
| 16 | Humans ca n't catch it and pass it on , especially not through solid glass.in But he refused to give ground on this issue . |
| 17 | Many adult smokers continue smoking not through unfettered choice but because they are addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes . |
| 18 | He envisaged an emancipation from reification would come not through abstract reflection alone but through ‘ praxis ’ : |
| 19 | The way to convince this Matron of my mother 's extreme need of a hospital bed is not through any show of carelessness on my part . |
| 20 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 21 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 22 | For most diurnal raptors it was difficult to obtain large enough samples , not through any shortage of pellet collections but because they contained so little bone . |
| 23 | The most important development in English ecclesiastical architecture , however , during the post-Restoration period came about not through any new religious initiative , but as a result of the ever-present danger of fire . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Higginson , crowning his " busy life among " the Stockport boys ' ventured to make some comments to the Governors in a letter on 14th June , " not through any belief that , in your present position in financial and other matters , you can act upon them soon ; but when and if the ability comes " . |
| 26 | This was not through any idealistic belief in unity for its own sake , but because of the way these states viewed their national interests . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | There can be little doubt that , in the aftermath of the crisis of 1916–17 , Nizan gradually , irreversibly began to perceive his father as a loser ; a loser not through any fault of his own , other than a selfconfessed lack of bourgeois schooling and culture . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One of the changes she made was to include a check in the action , abandoning what had become a ‘ bouncing ’ action , not through any fault in her father 's design but because the technique of those whose ‘ strength ’ knew ‘ no moderation ’ had superseded those whose playing was ‘ soft and melting ’ Between 1796 , when von Schönfeld used those words , and 1809 when Reichardt wrote his letter , the potential of the new instrument became generally accepted in Vienna . |