Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well , if a thesis that it is difficult to make sense of allows a conclusion that is repugnant , then the rational course would seem to be to take this as another reason for distrusting the thesis : not as a reason for admitting the repugnant conclusion . |
| 32 | The functionalist view I advocate is that mental phenomena emerge as a result of the way that the neurons etcetera are functionally organized in the brain , not as a result of the physical properties of neurons per se . |
| 33 | From a functionalist perspective , mental processes are inferred processes — they gain their status in our theoretical base not as a result of being directly observed or experienced , but from the way in which they enable us to understand and explain human behaviour . |
| 34 | Can it ever come to life again , not as a bait and hook for politicians to use , not as a shouting for soccer fans ? |
| 35 | Can it ever come to life again , not as a bait and hook for politicians to use , not as a shouting for soccer fans ? |
| 36 | This book shows something of what has emerged out of religious interpretations of death , not as a history of death but as an indication of what lies at the root of the major religious traditions , lending to each its characteristic style . |
| 37 | Megill writes not as a literary critic but as a philosophically trained historian of ideas . |
| 38 | Third , the centre has collapsed as a political force — although not as a constituency — and this obliges both major parties to compete more assiduously for middle-of-the-road votes . |
| 39 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 40 | Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker . |
| 41 | Society reacted to it , the organs of law reacted to it and eventually but not as a result of direct cause and effect — it is something more subtle than that — it went out of fashion . |
| 42 | In both play and pamphlet the contemporary sexual metaphysic is turned inside out : gender division is recognized not as a divinely sanctioned natural order , but as the contingent basis of an oppressive social order . |
| 43 | Churchill , Eden , Macmillan , and Home had been political grandees ; all emerged through the ‘ magic circle , and not as a result of election by MPs . |
| 44 | It was conceived of by all those who participated in it not as a coalition government as generally understood , but as a temporary , emergency government , formed for a single limited purpose : to balance the budget through drastic economies and increases in taxation . |
| 45 | It was clearly proposed not as a permanent arrangement , but as a temporary measure of co-operation between different individuals , who , it was hoped , would be supported by their parties . |
| 46 | My grandfather built the village in 1895 — not as a company town . |
| 47 | It is seen not as a racial characteristic but as identical with race . |
| 48 | That means a modified 2-litre Renault 21 Turbo engine , double wishbone suspension and a chassis le Quement said was designed not as a chassis ‘ but as a handling ’ ( sic ) . |
| 49 | Supremely , however , this generous desire to show us the best in an author is manifested in his long chapter about Spenser , and there he marks himself out not as a kindly eccentric , but as a pioneer of modern taste . |
| 50 | He even envisaged the absorption of East Germany into the Twelve , not as a new state but as an ‘ extension of the territory of an existing member ’ . |
| 51 | Ministers actually grappling with policy are wary of Sir Leon Brittan 's suggestion this week that East Germany be integrated into the EC , not as a new member , but as an extension of an existing member , West Germany , which already provides the Krenz regime with special access to the West . |
| 52 | A high bank with a ditch on one side , it was built between the estuaries of the Dee and Severn in the late eighth century by Offa , king of Mercia , not as a defence against the Welsh but to control trade across the border . |
| 53 | I saw this small sum not as a personal insult but as a gain for the charity I was supporting . |
| 54 | But Bill Alexander 's powerful new production of The Duchess of Malfi at The Swan treats him not as a lurid Jacobean sensationalist but as a sombre , death-haunted melancholic . |
| 55 | But , interestingly , she treats ‘ I am Duchess of Malfi still ’ not as a ringing , operatic cry but as a simple statement of fact . |
| 56 | ‘ But not as a matter of influence as such . |
| 57 | And he has made it clear that an all-German election should be held next year at the earliest , not as a quick substitute for the West German one in December . |
| 58 | At first glance , it seems hardly necessary to make another film about Van Gogh ; but Maurice Pialat , who began his career in the late 1960s , has found a new approach by showing the artist not as a great figure of his times but as a tormented , talented painter living in a village among ordinary folk . |
| 59 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 60 | The fact that he could get such good results by orthodox bowling also left one wondering why he occasionally indulged in a bouncer war , for it obviously did his reputation no good and was not as a rule very productive . |