Example sentences of "not [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All aspects of the influence of photography throughout society will be examined , commerce and industry as much as artistic use of photography and of the divide in photography , be it real or not between the many genres of photography . |
| 2 | The coolness between the two men , but not between the sisters , continued until one day when Edward was obliged to seek medical advice . |
| 3 | However , the very persistence of the demand for relevance and usefulness , the dissatisfaction with whatever is seen as ‘ useless ’ , should lead , as I have suggested , to a more fundamental distinction , not between the useful and the useless , the relevant and the irrelevant , nor between the arts and the sciences , but between the practical and the theoretical . |
| 4 | Mike Benton in his article on the rhynchosaurs ( 7 April , p 9 ) suggests that the so-called battle for survival really took place between the food-source plants and not between the animals themselves . |
| 5 | Not between the relationship . |
| 6 | But for ministers , shadow ministers and most MPs on both sides of the House , the division that comes to mind is not between the executive and the House but between the government and the Opposition . |
| 7 | But not between the last two words : |
| 8 | The tragedy is that , whatever the direction that market forces blow , when they are left to their own devices , the choice for workers in such industries is not between the status quo and redeployment , but between the status quo and loss of their jobs . |
| 9 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 10 | I walked along , trembling with anger and misery , not through the London of beautiful houses and clean streets that I 'd dreamed of , where people wore only elegant , expensive clothes , nor between buildings that soared into the clouds , but in the darkness past trees planted at infrequent intervals and council houses with their unlit windows , all alike ; I passed people asleep , protected from the cold in cardboard boxes , and rubbish in untidy heaps or neatly tied up in black plastic bags and empty milk bottles with traces of sour milk lingering in them , and I marvelled once again that the dairies were trusting enough to leave them lying about . |
| 11 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
| 12 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
| 13 | She now believed that her sister had died , if not through the direct actions of the people downstairs , then at least through her unhealthy associations with them . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The siphuncle in most ammonoids runs not through the middle of the whorl but along the outer edge . |
| 16 | It trailed across the dust , occasionally halting in dark brown cakes , from room to room , not through the doors sealed up with breeze-blocks but through holes in the walls , holes through which we crawled , troglodytes all . |
| 17 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 18 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 19 | Choosing to overlook the actual blatancy of British power and concentrate instead upon its supposed attenuation , they produced the definitive celebration of the attempt to govern , not through the threat or application of physical force , but through the power of personal influence alone . |
| 20 | In his last public statement as Home Secretary , he announced : ‘ Once again the terrorists have tried to make their point through violence and not through the ballot box . ’ |
| 21 | How then were they kept alive and fresh in the hearts and minds of English folk , if not through the chapman ? |
| 22 | Expectation is generated not through the effervescence of the enthusiasts , but through the intercession of the people of God . |
| 23 | A sudden wave of fear that a new world war was in the making found expression not through the LNU — whose recruitment declined sharply during 1933 — but in some rather less disciplined eruptions of protest . |
| 24 | All protection is carried out through the power of the ‘ thoughts ’ of individuals , and not through the physical bellicosity of men in groups . |
| 25 | So , when you cut a punchcard at the bottom , cut into the card and not through the holes . |
| 26 | Their relation to the totality emerges not through the form of synecdoche — the typical detail which can then be generalized as metaphor — but should , according to Lukács , be drawn out through the narrative which inscribes and extends a connection between such moments of empirical reality and the general laws of history as a totality . |
| 27 | Like Sartre , he sought to constitute Marxism as a form of truth , but attempted to prove its truth not through the dialectic of history but rather as a science , authenticating Marx 's ‘ immense theoretical revolution ’ epistemologically through a demonstration of its scientificity . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 30 | He argued that the incident must be looked at , not through the eyes of the reviewing court , but through the eyes of a reasonable man . |