Example sentences of "not [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not between the relationship . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The coolness between the two men , but not between the sisters , continued until one day when Edward was obliged to seek medical advice . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The siphuncle in most ammonoids runs not through the middle of the whorl but along the outer edge . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Many of the more intractable problems involved with merger of solicitors ' firms will be within the province of the accountancy profession : and the best advice as to how to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable will be obtained not through the pages of any book but from a fellow professional who has actually and successfully observed the process at first hand . |
| 9 | At break I was on duty in the corridor telling people to get out and go around to the canteen not through the school . |
| 10 | NatWest put in £250,000 but not through the Money Advice Trust . ’ |
| 11 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 12 | So , when you cut a punchcard at the bottom , cut into the card and not through the holes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 15 | Or no — not through the water . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Expectation is generated not through the effervescence of the enthusiasts , but through the intercession of the people of God . |
| 19 | This Act set out to enlarge the range of civil remedies for wrongful acts done in contemplation or furtherance of ‘ industrial disputes , ’ but through the new statutory concept of unfair industrial practices , not through the law of tort . |
| 20 | The way forward is not through the law but through the understanding of addictive disease . |
| 21 | Er aye but not er not industrially , you know not through the union . |
| 22 | ‘ Not through the post , luvvy . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | How then were they kept alive and fresh in the hearts and minds of English folk , if not through the chapman ? |
| 27 | Thus we might , in the case of names , allow a representation like : The explicit omission of round brackets conveys the claim that the name identifies some entity directly , not through the mention of some properties . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Djaballah said on Nov. 27 that " the Islamic state would be established by all the potential existing in Algeria , and not through the potential of one single party " . |