Example sentences of "[noun] are [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , these youngsters are striving not for speed , but technical excellence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In unmodernised buildings the windows are made not with glass , but with translucent shells from the freshwater oyster . |
| 6 | Since the termites are responding not to magnetism but to heat , they build accordingly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In the period following the execution of the Demoiselles Picasso 's art was informed by two main principles or types of tribal art , the one flatter , more abstract and remote from European art , in which the basic planes of the face are differentiated not by relief but by the directions of the striations or hatchings with which they are covered , the other more solid , sculptural , three-dimensional and naturalistic . |
| 9 | I wonder how many of Expotel 's customers are aware that Expotel 's recommendations are based not on hotel quality but on the self-interested payment up-front of this ‘ sweetener ’ , plus exclusive corporate rates ? |