Example sentences of "[not/n't] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big glass and the notes for the big glass , he wrote , not the big glass by itself and the notes by themselves , the big glass and the notes for the big glass , the notes for the big glass and the big glass , he wrote , never the one alone or the other alone , for neither by itself has any meaning , neither by itself will have any force , but always both together , not as text and gloss , not as image and caption , but always as exchange and delay , mirror and reflection . |
| 2 | The big glass and the notes for the big glass , he wrote , not the big glass by itself and the notes by themselves , the big glass and the notes for the big glass , the notes for the big glass and the big glass , he wrote , never the one alone or the other alone , for neither by itself has any meaning , neither by itself will have any force , but always both together , not as text and gloss , not as image and caption , but always as exchange and delay , mirror and reflection . |
| 3 | For all was not as it seemed . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not as though a gentleman would only bring one or two pairs of shoes with him to a house-party . ’ |
| 5 | When this picture was fully developed , even space was represented not as being qualitatively the way it is in vision , but as a structural isomorph of visual and tactile space . |
| 6 | We act upon reality as we represent it to ourselves , not as it physically is . |
| 7 | They see themselves not as author and illustrator , with separate roles , but as a partnership of ‘ book-makers ’ , contributing equally to the process . |
| 8 | But it was not enough to give me a complex , not as it would have been in America . |
| 9 | Yet the general position had improved enough for the government to proceed to its second level campaign — the creation of nation-wide cultural uniformity through mass education as the chief instrument of modernization in a period when technical means and financial resources were not as yet adequate for fast modernization through industrialization . |
| 10 | Rather however than acknowledge that the Irish state , which refused any longer to play the Commonwealth game and declared itself a republic , was therefore a foreign country , Britain proceeded to divide the world not as hitherto into two portions — British subjects and aliens — but into three — British subjects , aliens and Irish . |
| 11 | Eliot 's ‘ word , / Swaddled ’ , with its suggestion of Christ 's ‘ swaddling clothes ’ ( Luke 2 : 12 ) places us firmly within the area of fertility and birth , but Christ in ‘ Gerontion ’ comes not as baby but as frightening beast , associated , like totemic animals , with fertility . |
| 12 | General hints at fertility ceremonies may be present , demonstrating another continuity in theme between this and earlier poetry ; but it is important to see that , though its death and rebirth are also related , Christianity is presented by Eliot as an escape from Frazerian cycles of fertility ( in the way that the Buddhist ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ hinted at such an escape ) , not as its mere continuation . |
| 13 | Just as he reacted strongly against Richards 's suggestion that The Waste Land had severed poetry from belief , which carried the implication that the poem was a cultural museum , so Eliot campaigned now for the preservation of London 's churches not as museum pieces , but as centres of religion . |
| 14 | Thus ‘ gay is to straight not as copy is to original , but , rather , as copy is to copy ’ ( p. 31 ) . |
| 15 | It 's not as though we were n't making money at the time either . |
| 16 | A little scared , since they were then all very young and had believed the stuff about painless childbirth , and a little over-excited by their own courage and naughtiness , but completely present for her — not as grown-ups to a child , but as women . |
| 17 | According to Marx 's theory the many different units were willing to unite and contribute their labour to work for the despot because this appeared , not as working for him , but as working for ‘ the higher unity ’ , which , they wrongly believed , was the source of their continued existence . |
| 18 | It is not as she thinks a desire to ‘ make the most of it ’ , to somehow claim importance , but rather a recognition that in this oppressive society women need the care and emotional support of other women . |
| 19 | Simultaneously the status of the professional improved as players began to assert themselves not as ‘ club servants ’ or ‘ skilled workmen ’ but as entertainers who should be paid in accordance with their market value . |
| 20 | FIVE children lying bloody and broken in the road below a high tenement window in Glasgow helped substantially reinforce ambulanceman Jack Kirkland 's belief that his colleagues should be treated as dedicated professionals and not as cab drivers . |
| 21 | Bruce Alexander thus plays the lycanthropic Ferdinand not as some howling lunatic but as a haunted , guilt-ridden creature . |
| 22 | It was not as I had expected at all because living in the kind of commune that Mary Finnigan 's house was , there was n't a lot of time for romance . |
| 23 | ‘ Not as of an hour ago , no . ’ |
| 24 | As such he is popular , but not as an ideologue : with his late actor brother , Yujiro ( known as Japan 's James Dean ) , he formed one of the country 's most glamorous families . |
| 25 | Come here to see me if you will ; mother asks you , and I want you , but it is for you to come or not as you feel best , or as you like . |
| 26 | It is not as though there always was a clear conception of what such a science would be like , and as though all that was lacking was success in producing it . |
| 27 | Interests in land for a term of years ( leaseholds ) were originally regarded , not as interests in the land , but as contractual rights . |
| 28 | It was patently obvious to Klepner , now that he had read the plan , that the European trade environment was not as he had been led to believe . |
| 29 | ‘ The group has issued a communiqué setting out its general aims , but has not as yet made any specific demands . |
| 30 | However , the Court of Appeal has now attempted to rectify the anomaly by holding that the prosecution must prove intention or recklessness as to physical harm , not as to a mere assault . |