Example sentences of "not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 … . |
| 2 | Hence we investigate transitions not between individual words but grammatical categories . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The choice in the Third World is not between foreign exploitative private capitalism and domestic altruistic communitarian enterprise , in the food or in any other industry . |
| 6 | The internal rhymes however operate not between even lines but between odd and even , 1 and 2 , 3 and 4 , and so on . |
| 7 | The problems of the older cities were to be resolved — if resolved they ever were — on the spot and not through planned decentralization . |
| 8 | Virtue was manifested by acting virtuously , not through passive reflection . |
| 9 | Cavaillès developed these ideas into a theory of science as such , which , he argued , changed not through empirical discovery but through the theoretical reworking of its own concepts in the ‘ pure ’ sciences . |
| 10 | The second of the views we have noted derives from a claim that the route to indubitable knowledge is not through empirical experience of the external world , but through logical , that is rational , principles which are beyond doubt . |
| 11 | At the time , however , they were accepted ( indeed assiduously pored over and frequently quoted by Citrine and others ) as embodying two widely-approved aspirations : firstly , a general desire to spread the benefits of cheap electricity widely ( with the ‘ public interest ’ implicitly seen as overriding the tyranny of the profit-and-loss account ) ; and secondly ( but not entirely consistently ) the view that these economic objectives should be pursued not through political or civil service channels but by the ‘ business ’ board of a public corporation with some genuine independence . |
| 12 | But dominion in the Atlantic cable ventures came about not through technological pre-eminence but via another British near-monopoly at that time : capital . |
| 13 | Humans ca n't catch it and pass it on , especially not through solid glass.in But he refused to give ground on this issue . |
| 14 | Many adult smokers continue smoking not through unfettered choice but because they are addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes . |
| 15 | He envisaged an emancipation from reification would come not through abstract reflection alone but through ‘ praxis ’ : |
| 16 | The national independence of both Germany and Italy came not through agrarian revolution , but through the force of arms of established powers . |
| 17 | Favours are won through reciprocity , not through militant industrial action . |
| 18 | That is the way that we build jobs surely , not through bureaucratic regulations . |
| 19 | Hence , our data strongly suggest that the inhibiting effects of indomethacin is not through cyclo-oxygenase inhibition . |
| 20 | The working hypothesis reached by the counsellor has to be transferred to the counsellees , not through direct transmission , but by helping them achieve their own insights . |
| 21 | I sell Amway products because the company operates only by direct selling ( not through retail shops ) , and I saw being a distributor as a chance for me to raise funds for NCT ( and my kids ' playgroup ! ) |
| 22 | After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers . |
| 23 | Not worth challenging . |
| 24 | Not worth worrying about . |
| 25 | I reckon it 's not worth worrying about ! |
| 26 | so fortunately I was at home before he did so I thought we 'll have something quick then , just had a roll , you know , and I thought well I , i it 's not worth worrying about it and sort of |
| 27 | To dismiss the doctrine of consideration as not worth serious attention because |
| 28 | across the board trouble is when you get these differential spend all the interpretation on them , not that you 're rewarding the good teachers but that some teachers are not worth rewarding . |
| 29 | He wanted to see a mixed economy of care and he considered it essential that the social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services , not as monopolistic providers . |
| 30 | It is vital that social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services — not as monopolistic providers . |