Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may be , indeed they usually are , based on freshly invented material or the composer may take a plainsong melody not as a cantus firmus but for plastic treatment through all the parts , as Gombert does in his ‘ Salve regina ’ . |
| 2 | The orthodox clerics were distinguished from the Presbyterians and from those dubbed Puritans not by a differing theology of salvation , but rather by the fact that they did not share the intensified spirituality displayed by the latter two groups , a spirituality which Lake and R. T. Kendall have labelled ‘ experimental ’ predestinarianism . |
| 3 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 4 | the independent film movement aims to understand the cinema not as a profit-making machine confined to the realm of ‘ mass entertainment , but as one of the central means whereby a society consciously speaks to and thus understands itself … |
| 5 | As the importance of caring for carers has become more widely recognised , so too has the realisation that making better support for carers a reality is the responsibility not of a single agency but of many . |
| 6 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 7 | She does her weekly shopping not in a huge supermarket but in the camp 's NAAFI and in an effort to actually go out and meet people Sue has got herself a day job . |
| 8 | Exploitation of the press , radio and television would be more than ever indispensable , as would awareness that image matters not in a figurative sense only : votes can be won and lost by hair-styles , complexions , teeth and apparel . |
| 9 | It refers only to the cause of a difference not to a whole course of development . |
| 10 | The same idea can be used with contingency tables , but the effects are usually derived by making comparisons not with a typical value such as the grand median but with one of the categories that has been chosen as the base for comparison . |
| 11 | It would , for the first time , draw the outside world into the war not as a neutral peacekeeper but as an enemy of one side . |
| 12 | The alternative view sees constitutions not as a conscious creation but rather as an evolutionary consequence made up of ‘ substantive principles to be deduced from a nation 's actual institutions and their development ’ ( McIlwain , ibid . ) . |
| 13 | Looking at contemporary art he discerns ‘ an attempt to reinstate the object not as a tonal equation or as a decorative symbol , but as the thing itself ’ . |
| 14 | The ANC regarded Strydom not as a political prisoner but as a racist psychopath . |
| 15 | Such efforts , like the one supported by Kurt Schmoke , the mayor of Baltimore , build on programmes from parts of Europe and Australia which treat drug-taking not as a criminal matter , but more as an issue of personal choice and public health . |
| 16 | Most ancient and medieval writers thought of human life not as a continuous development but instead as punctuated by a number of sudden changes from one ‘ age ’ to the next . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But Izzard became convinced that there was a mystery , and she has written her book not as a chronological narrative of Stark 's life , but in the manner of A J A Symons 's great Quest for Corvo , in which the reader is presented with the biographer 's discoveries in the order in which they are made , as if it were a whodunit . |
| 19 | I saw this small sum not as a personal insult but as a gain for the charity I was supporting . |
| 20 | They see urban decay not as a peripheral manifestation nor as a growing pain , but as a chronic condition of social polarization that is becoming firmly entrenched in British society . |
| 21 | Landform inheritance ( e.g. Pain , 1978 ) is therefore a concept emphasized by some researchers in environments of this kind , and Ollier ( 1979 , 1981 ) proposes evolutionary geomorphology not as a cyclic approach with a sequence of stages but suggests that the earth 's landscapes as a whole are evolving through time and this is analogous to the concept of an evolving earth as used in some geology books ( e.g. Windley , 1977 ) . |
| 22 | It gives expression not to a technical aspect of the division of labour but to its social aspect . |
| 23 | The man behind Shoom — a club that is now so legendary that if all the people who claim to have been there in its formative months really had attended , it would have been held in Wembley Stadium not in a sweaty south-east London basement — he resolutely refused to cash in on the boom that became known as acid . |
| 24 | Wilson found it agreeably ‘ refreshing ’ to face a customer not across a football-field-sized desk in a corporate headquarters but bobbing gently up and down in a houseboat on the Regents Canal , or over a pleasant weekend at Branson 's Oxford home . |
| 25 | ‘ They have been treated , therefore , as persons in a different situation from mere contractors for then they would have been exempt , but in truth they are purchasers who have acquired an interest not in a mere chattel , but in a subject of a permanent nature … ’ |
| 26 | If the engagement period is to be protracted because the couple are young or studying , there may be a big party not unlike a small-scale version of the wedding at which the future bride has a chance to display her ring to well-wishers and acquire presents for the new home , for which the guests must be thanked . |