Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intel was the last to join the RISC bandwagon , Slater notes — repeating a comment made some time ago by Intels ' Dave House , that RISC was ‘ the last hope of the have-nots ’ — now it seems Intel is the have-not of the RISC marketplace . |
| 2 | But it is fair to say that the real chemistry is not between actor and part , but between the idea of the star as entrepreneur and the idea of the king as a self-made man . |
| 3 | It is fair to say that the real chemistry is not between actor and part , but between the idea of the star as entrepreneur and the idea of the king as a self-made man . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It would be better to ask young people to show what they could do against explicit criteria so that the challenge would be between the person and the task , not between individuals , with one person 's success being another 's failure , ’ the report says . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For Blake , the true antithesis was not between life and death , but between fallen and unfallen , youth and age , innocence and experience . |
| 7 | No one thought the speaker should have added that they would not hew wood for Lord Salisbury ; the divisions within the Council which would become so painfully evident over the Boer War were between Gladstonian Liberals and Liberal Imperialists , with the odd Liberal Unionist added for decoration , not between Liberals and Conservatives . |
| 8 | Thus the immediate issue at stake was not between Moscow and a former Tsarist dependency , but between the Soviet Republic and a hostile Great Power . |
| 9 | The choice was not between dependence and independence , but between dependence on Moscow or dependence on the bourgeois governments of the capitalist world . |
| 10 | ‘ There was a war , not between us and the Lebanese , but between us and the Palestinians , who tried to conquer Lebanon and take Lebanon and occupy it . |
| 11 | Thus the first of these groups learned a discrimination between A and C but not between A and B ; the second learned a discrimination between A and B but C and A received the same treatments . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The coolness between the two men , but not between the sisters , continued until one day when Edward was obliged to seek medical advice . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The crucial distinction to be drawn within the curriculum is , as I have argued , not between arts and sciences but between the practical and the theoretical . |
| 16 | The key distinction is not between ‘ electronic ’ and ‘ non-electronic ’ artefacts ; it is between those artefacts which can be organised for use via telecommunication connection and those which can not [ Lester ( 1985 ) ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Not between us . ’ |
| 19 | He feels that the choice is really between hi sā and ahi sā , and not between doing one 's duty or not doing one 's duty . |
| 20 | The internal rhymes however operate not between even lines but between odd and even , 1 and 2 , 3 and 4 , and so on . |
| 21 | 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 … . |
| 22 | most public co-operation is between men , and not between men and women , or between women ; |
| 23 | Fergus ' London also remains haunted by his IRA past , which Jordan shows as a conflict not between factions , but between different kinds of humanity — with Fergus himself seeming shockingly sympathetic after the media black-out on real-life terrorists . |
| 24 | It does not replace each nation 's own system for the control of the export of ‘ national treausres ’ from its respective boundaries , but runs parallel with it , only affecting goods being exported from the EEC , not between member States . |
| 25 | The relevant — and revealing — comparison is not between CDs and cassettes , but between Britain and America . |
| 26 | As early as 1976 , the Layfield Committee was distinguishing not between counties and districts , but between ‘ major spending authorities ’ and the rest in their discussions of the possible introduction of a local income tax ( Layfield 1976:196 ) . |
| 27 | To suggest that the struggle was not between science and religion but over cultural leadership may expel the conflict through the front door , but it still returns through the back . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Not between the relationship . |