Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Levinas , like Habermas , posits an authentic language of expression which abhors the distortions of ‘ rhetoric ’ , Derrida argues that such alterity is constituted not through dialogue but rather through the operation of language itself : Levinas ' transcendence-as-surplus is therefore redefined as a Derridean supplement . |
| 2 | The first major teen icon whose work is grounded not in anticipation and impatience , but vacillation , resignation and looking back . |
| 3 | Then , as now , the obvious lesson is that socialist will in England is ignited not by misery but by buoyancy , not pessimism but optimism . |
| 4 | The South is talking not of aid and advice , but of a new economic order , with just and equal sharing in trade , finance and technology . |
| 5 | President Cerezo is accused not of murder but of neglect . |
| 6 | Where we often have great difficulty with Community proposals is when co-operation is replaced not by agreement but by majority voting on issues of concern to us . |
| 7 | Their rank is determined not by place but by person . |
| 8 | In English , gender is determined not by form but by meaning : the word table , unlike mensa , would always be neuter in this system ( the correct pronoun would be ‘ it ’ ) because it refers to an inanimate object . |
| 9 | Decades have their spirits , their haunting obsessions , their characteristic aspirations ; and though this book is governed not by chronology but by groups , by issues and by congeries of like minds , it is still possessed , always and inevitably , by a sense of evolving time . |
| 10 | This time the illustration is taken not from farming , but from another common industry : fishing . |
| 11 | The money is paid not under duress in the strict sense of the term , as that implies duress of person , but under the pressure of seizure or detention of goods which is analogous to that of duress . |
| 12 | The money is paid not under duress in the strict sense of the term , as that implies duress of person , but under the pressure of seizure or detention of goods which is analogous to that of duress . |
| 13 | At the same time , listener response is grounded not on individuality — the private feelings privileged in bourgeois art — but on |