Example sentences of "[verb] not [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this argument was rejected in the House of Lords and Lord Wilberforce ( at p372 ) said that to : … suppose that the assignments were made not by way of sale but by way of security would be to impose upon the parties a form of transaction totally different from that which they had selectednamely , one of saleand of which there was no evidence whatsoever that either of them desired … |
| 2 | Thus , as we have noted above , agreement on norms ( as consequence of close-knit and stable social patterns ) results not in uniformity of usage within a community , but on agreement on a pattern of stable differentiation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And they pillaged Earth because their lives were based not on co-operation with Nature , but on money . |
| 5 | The Statements of Attainment need to be in some ways " unpacked " in relation to the chosen programme of study and reordered not in sequence of difficulty but in terms of their place in the programme to ensure that opportunities for assessment are capitalised upon . |
| 6 | Ma was an expert knitter , a knitter by feel not by sight of pattern , a measurer by holding up , by arm-length , not by inches and tapes . |
| 7 | They differ not in respect of reaction patterns but in the economic characteristics of the market concerned , and it is a matter of fact , not logic , to decide which model is appropriate for any particular market under study . |
| 8 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |