Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was descended ( though not through the male line ) from the family that had built the ships for the old Fowey Gallants of fourteenth-century fame , whose piratical seamen who had dared disobey the Sovereign by plundering Frenchmen and had had their fleet confiscated and sent to Dartmouth for their pains . |
| 4 | The variations on this particular theme are pretty well endless : the financial side of a firm 's affairs may , for example , be treated quite separately from administration and its director of finance may report straight back to the partners and not through the managing partner or any management committee . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All protection is carried out through the power of the ‘ thoughts ’ of individuals , and not through the physical bellicosity of men in groups . |
| 8 | ‘ Not through the main street ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If the mother objects to abortion on moral or religious grounds , the tests are virtually pointless , and certainly not worth the additional risks that they raise . |
| 11 | Whatever may be the attitude of any individual teacher , if s/he does not receive adequate support from the school in implementing change , s/he is likely to give up , or decide that the innovation is not worth the extra time and energy required . |
| 12 | If the surveyor states that the property is most definitely not worth the agreed price and the building society will not advance you the money you need , you have three choices : abandon the property and look again , or go to another building society and hope that another surveyor will not make the same judgement , or go to your vendor 's estate agent , explain the situation and hope that the vendor will drop the price . |
| 13 | It will provide you with two sides of an A4 sheet giving you very little detail about the property except that it is or is not worth the agreed purchase price . |
| 14 | Voluntariness will be understood , however , not as the decisive act by which an individual surrenders private autonomy , but rather as a deliberate entry into market relations under which certain obligations will arise in order to sustain and regulate an advanced division of labour . |
| 15 | Not as the prime objective , though that might well be a consequence . |
| 16 | By the time Khrushchev sat down , Stalin stood revealed not as the dear father but as the mass murderer of his people . |
| 17 | In South East Asian or Middle Eastern groups the concept of leaderless groups is absurd ( if for different reasons ) but this is not so in collective cultures ( Norway , Finland , Denmark ) where a leader can be seen as a facilitator not as the final word . |
| 18 | Unlike most doctors , he saw it , not as the final enemy , but as a fascinating enigma , each cadaver , which he would gaze at with the same intent look as he must once have fixed on his living patients , a new piece of evidence which might , if rightly interpreted , bring him closer to its central mystery . |
| 19 | From there they were accustomed to having something like a bird's-eye view , seeing their husbands and the other male members of their families not as the tall figures they were familiar with and on whom they relied but as the busy little children they often privately felt them to be . |
| 20 | ‘ . Primitive and child are again linked , but not as the second childhood of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 21 | In the Old Testament the Devil is usually portrayed as an adversary , not as the supreme evil being . |
| 22 | Britain 's importance now lies in being part of one of the world 's great trading blocs , the European Community , not as the ever-dependable ally of the Reagan and Bush years . |
| 23 | They would n't mellow into CD middle age , at least not as the original band . |
| 24 | ‘ For , ’ she put down , ‘ I want to go there as humble McAllister who keeps the house clean , dressed the doll and made and embroidered the baby clothes , not as the American Princess doing the gracious , ladling our Papa 's money , not one penny of which I have earned , smiling and patronising those not so fortunate as myself , and then leaving them to go home to the embassy — to forget them ! ’ |
| 25 | Others interpreted the troop withdrawals in the east not as the tactical manoeuvres devised by Hitler , but as moves ‘ dictated ’ by the Russians , and many were disappointed that no precise details were given about retaliation . |
| 26 | A person who approaches anywhere near this ideal affects us , not as the natural man freed of civilized restraints , but as cold and inhuman , rational to the point of emotional impoverishment . |
| 27 | From this perspective Levinas proposes the possibility that the much lamented ‘ subject ’ be brought back not as the ontological subject which seeks to reduce everything to itself but as an ethical subject defined in relation to the other : ‘ Ethics redefines subjectivity as this heteronomous responsibility in contrast to autonomous freedom ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ I want you to regard me not as the last Viceroy winding up the British Raj ’ , he told Nehru , ‘ but as the first to lead the way to the new India . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Self-government ’ was thus conceived not as the inevitable prelude to letting India go , as it appeared at the time and has appeared since to eyes less clouded than Montagu 's by belief in the possibility of voluntary servitude , but as the natural means of keeping it . |
| 30 | Or perhaps , not about the right things at the time or perhaps concentrating on . |