Example sentences of "not [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol Wilson , who had joined in Music Publishing and signed Sting 's songwriting to the company ( but not Sting as an artist ) had developed her own label , DinDisc , under the Virgin umbrella , which in 1980 gave the company one of its best-selling artists , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark . |
| 2 | Not bricks as such , no . |
| 3 | Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such . |
| 4 | Not auditions as such . |
| 5 | Police said a warning given 30 minutes before the explosions identified Liverpool and not Warrington as the target . |
| 6 | I believe that when Milton Friedman defends capitalism as a necessary but not sufficient condition to ensure a free society , it is not capitalism as an ideology to which he refers , but the guarantee by the state to respect private property rights . |
| 7 | It was the vested interests of arms manufacturers , not capitalism as such , which they were trying to break . |
| 8 | However much specific capitalist abuses figured in their thinking about the causes of war , the principal enemies remained secret diplomacy , militarism and the delusions of economic nationalism , not capitalism as such . |
| 9 | But our focus is primarily upon people , not places as such ; the male survivors of the next generation of Titfords succeeded in wrenching themselves away from the town which had been home for their ancestors for over a hundred and seventy years — and we have no choice but to follow them . |
| 10 | Thus monarch in 14 has queen but not king as a synonym , whereas in 15 it has king but not queen : |
| 11 | It is not disturbance as such but uncontrollable disturbance which leads to uncertainty . |
| 12 | Today , the fact that Maxwell 's theory can give an accurate account of the behaviour of a wide range of electromagnetic systems is a generally accepted part of scientific knowledge , and assertions about the existence and properties of radio waves will not rate as novel predictions . |
| 13 | There a local Northern Ireland MP occupied a council house in protest at the eviction of a Catholic family and reallocation of their house to a Protestant woman who did not rate as a priority for rehousing . |
| 14 | Strangers do not rate as human beings at all . |
| 15 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |
| 16 | Size clearly has something to do with its effect , he wrote , but not size as reflection of ego . |
| 17 | IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge . |
| 18 | But the plan was foiled after a 750lb bomb — not 500lb as earlier reported - was found in the bucket of a JCB digger on a building site , and four hijacked and unoccupied cars , with keys in the ignition and driving licences behind the sun visors , were found in a street near by . |
| 19 | With Kiesling he argues that it is that femininity signifies inferiority to Thomas , and not femininity as such , which makes a woman unsuitable . |
| 20 | Does Phil not class as dis |
| 21 | In Nigeria they are called Medical Extension Officers as they feel that they are not assistants as such but great contributors to health care . |
| 22 | are you sure it was n't Chris as a baby ? |