Example sentences of "not [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The siphuncle in most ammonoids runs not through the middle of the whorl but along the outer edge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At break I was on duty in the corridor telling people to get out and go around to the canteen not through the school . |
| 7 | NatWest put in £250,000 but not through the Money Advice Trust . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Or no — not through the water . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Expectation is generated not through the effervescence of the enthusiasts , but through the intercession of the people of God . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The way forward is not through the law but through the understanding of addictive disease . |
| 15 | Er aye but not er not industrially , you know not through the union . |
| 16 | ‘ Not through the post , luvvy . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | How then were they kept alive and fresh in the hearts and minds of English folk , if not through the chapman ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 " . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | As well as making claims about the efficiency of markets , the theory denies the existence of producer power , at the same time drawing a reassuring analogy with democratic control in the political sphere : corporate behaviour is no more than a reflection of the popular will , expressed not through the ballot box , but via individual purchase decisions . |
| 26 | Two senses of door may be observed in 48 , which can be truthfully answered either ‘ Yes ’ or ‘ No ’ in the following situation : the door in question has a ‘ cat-flap ’ , and is standing open ; the cat goes through the cat-flap , but not through the doorway : |
| 27 | she 's going over at half past eleven and she said to me if it 's not worth the money I 'm not changing and er , I shall tell him that I 've certainly got to go on the books you know |
| 28 | Otherwise you could be changing status now only to change back again very shortly and it is not worth the upheaval for what would only be a marginal difference . ’ |
| 29 | Believing revanche to be either unrealizable , or not worth the price to be paid , it looked to colonies , social progress and economic expansion for French achievement . |
| 30 | Not worth the licence fee as Derek says . |