Example sentences of "[verb] not [prep] a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another was for portfolios of firms to be owned not by a pension fund but by a specialist financial or management group : Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts or Hanson , which buy , break up and set strict financial controls for what remains ; Clayton & Dubilier or Forstmann Little , which exert direct supervision over managers ; Berkshire Hathaway , which is a more remote but patient investor . |
| 2 | ‘ When Euston was first built ’ , reported a Victorian commentator in 1896 , ‘ it was regarded not as a railway station but as a spectacle . |
| 3 | There , despite the identical name of ‘ collective agreements ’ , it is regarded not as an adversary process but rather as a means of ensuring the full cooperation of management and workers in carrying out the economic and social plans and improving the management of undertakings ( ILO , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | When somebody tried to do so , he was treated not like a party politician challenging his leader but like a soldier threatening to desert . |
| 5 | By contrast , the films made to exploit the vitality , comic talent and phenomenal singing voice of Grace Fields are at their best when set not against a showbusiness background , but in the midst of depressed working-class communities where Fields stands as a beacon of cheerfulness and hope . |
| 6 | It was here that the performance abandoned all semblance of script , but was nonetheless skilfully held together by the actors , who guided without being intrusive and did not for a moment step out of their roles . |
| 7 | For example , supposing that the flow investigated becomes more complicated than might be expected because of an instability , this fact would be discovered not by a stability analysis but by the observation , in the laboratory or on the computer , that a complicated flow occurred . |