Example sentences of "[noun] be [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 | Thus , the District gained little direct financial benefit from increased enrolments as the capitation fee which branches paid to District funds was calculated not on student enrolment but on WEA membership . |
| 3 | However , these youngsters are striving not for speed , but technical excellence . |
| 4 | And they pillaged Earth because their lives were based not on co-operation with Nature , but on money . |
| 5 | The first major teen icon whose work is grounded not in anticipation and impatience , but vacillation , resignation and looking back . |
| 6 | Then , as now , the obvious lesson is that socialist will in England is ignited not by misery but by buoyancy , not pessimism but optimism . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Convention is confined to international financial leasing , that is , to leasing which in economic terms is equivalent to a sale or purchase-money loan , the equipment being leased to a single lessee at whose request it was bought and the rentals being fixed not by reference to the use-value of the equipment as such but at a level which , taking into account cash-flows , tax-reliefs , and the like , will guarantee to the lessor the reim-bursement of his capital costs and desired return on capital . |
| 9 | Furthermore , many absences from services in the post-Reformation period were occasioned not by apathy or reluctance to forgo a morning 's work or relaxation , but rather by ill-health or family commitments ; when William Kirke of Stow-cum-Quy in Cambridgeshire , for example , was hauled before the church courts for absenteeism , he informed them that at the time his wife had been ‘ lying in childbed and also his children wanted succour ’ . |
| 10 | In Britain in the early days of cinema , prosecutions were brought not for obscenity , but for breaches of licensing conditions , and when certification became the rule in 1923 , legal actions ceased for half a century until sex suddenly became a burning media issue in most Western countries . |
| 11 | President Cerezo is accused not of murder but of neglect . |
| 12 | But Thursday morning 's meeting was dominated not by Law but by Baldwin . |
| 13 | This point was rapidly settled when folic acid was shown not to check but to accelerate the development of certain leukaemias . |
| 14 | Here , powers are devolved not by reference to a particular geographical area , but by reference to a particular function or service , such as transport or telecommunications . |
| 15 | One of the girls at school assured me that unbaptised infants were sent not to hell , but to limbo . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Their rank is determined not by place but by person . |
| 18 | In this way share prices are determined not by reference to estimations of fundamental value , but by a series of guesses about the behaviour of other market participants ; they result from ‘ [ s ] peculations on the speculations of other speculators who are doing the same thing ’ . |
| 19 | Industrial battles of this sort were almost an everyday event in Griffith 's America but here the bloody scenes are staged not as part of a labour or management film but as part of a vast , elaborate , confused , perhaps ultimately nonsensical and certainly eccentric plea for tolerance . |
| 20 | In unmodernised buildings the windows are made not with glass , but with translucent shells from the freshwater oyster . |
| 21 | Since the termites are responding not to magnetism but to heat , they build accordingly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Labour 's success was based not on equality of opportunity but on the assertion that a working man was more equal than others in his claim to represent the working-class electorate . |
| 24 | The Volvo team believes the missed signals and slow reactions were caused not by drowsiness but by ‘ heat stress ’ which affects a driver 's concentration , particularly in crowded city traffic . |
| 25 | Note that where assets are acquired not as part of a TOGC and VAT is payable , the VAT liability may be treated as capital expenditure for the purpose of writing down allowances for plant and machinery . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This time the illustration is taken not from farming , but from another common industry : fishing . |
| 28 | As the film progressed , he gradually began to hitch her skirt up , so that his hand was resting not upon skirt but upon stocking , and then his hand began to creep up the stocking . |
| 29 | Thus , German unification was achieved not by revolution , but by the political ingenuity of Bismarck and the arms of Prussia . |
| 30 | 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 . |