Example sentences of "not [noun sg] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I have to recognise by contrast is that even now James Joyce , born a hundred years ago , brings not unity but division , nor does this division merely reflect some such crude opposition as highbrow and lowbrow , or even informed and uninformed . |
| 2 | What comes their way is not Godot but Princess Lena . |
| 3 | Yet the Japanese term normally used for the transfer , ishin , is more correctly translated as ‘ renovation , — a term which implies not retrospection but a sense of renewal and looking forward . |
| 4 | Fur the modernists , on the other hand , history seemed not progress but nightmare , and the clock itself a threat . |
| 5 | Fforde 's error ( and Eccleshall makes the same mistake ) is simply that the ‘ orthodoxy ’ which Dicey and his friends in the LPDL espoused was not Conservatism but classical mid-Victorian Liberalism . |
| 6 | ‘ You must have rennet spilling out of your ears , ’ Algy said to Louise , who by now was beyond taking pleasure in such moves of friendliness and simply handed round the dish with her left hand behind her back as she had been taught , feeling mutinous and thinking proudly of a homeland where not junket but fondue was the commonplace . |
| 7 | The currency in this case is not money but prison sentences . |
| 8 | He was no doubt contemplating not futurity but baffled Eternity itself : a universal Revelation outside nature guaranteed by a Christ whom the laws of nature did not spare . |
| 9 | In terms of the basic values being transmitted in the process of political socialization , the most significant feature is not change but rather continuity . |
| 10 | Not admiration but anxiety , wonder , disgust , terror . |
| 11 | This sort of theatre was not literature but was visual , its effects created through sounds and images . |
| 12 | It is not automation but the failure to automate that risks jobs . |
| 13 | However , the temptation to sneak a look , at the answers can be irresistible , and after all the purpose of a network is not research but sharing . |
| 14 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 15 | On the logic of validation itself , Popper make the striking proposal that what counts is not confirmation but falsification . |
| 16 | He is admiring of the soldiers ' courage but not persuaded by their beliefs : training people to sacrifice themselves produces not altruism but a fascinated following of others to death not so much to help but merely to follow ( p. 88 ) . |
| 17 | When he emerged the next morning he found not uncertainty but widespread consternation . |
| 18 | The most radical possible objection to the argument from pleasure is not scepticism but the counterclaim that pleasure is evil , which condemns as wrong any choice in favour of the enjoyable . |
| 19 | Then it is not scepticism but a withdrawal from reality . |
| 20 | This time not disappointment but surprise . |
| 21 | The game the young man has been playing , however , is not baseball but exorcism . |
| 22 | not submission but resistance . |
| 23 | A theologian , Eric Mascall , in his book Christian Theology and Natural Science , wrote about such problems that the point is that , although a physicist knows the objective world only through the mediation of sensation , the essential character of the objective world is not sensibility but intelligibility . |
| 24 | I find it a bit hard to believe what said about being the boom 's coming ba not boom but picking up . |
| 25 | Just one relevant instance is Roland Barthes 's celebration of difference , so much difference in fact , as eventually to subvert repression itself , producing a concept of desire wherein there would be , for instance , not homosexuality but homosexualities ‘ whose plural will baffle any constituted , centred discourse ’ ( Roland Barthes , 69 ) . |
| 26 | His prose too is highly mannered in both his Latin and his English treatises ; it calls attention to itself and to the writer in striking contrast to the calm , lucid prose of our other mystics , who are all careful to make it clear that their word is not law but only their own opinion . |
| 27 | That was not indexation but a recognition of the fact that , if an exemption is to be made , it should be at a sensible and workable level . |
| 28 | The tensions of Sard Harker lead ultimately to the uniting of lover and beloved rather than to tragedy ; the prevailing note is not foreboding but a painful and frustrating postponement , again by the hazards of an overland journey . |
| 29 | I agree with J. L. Mackie 's comment that respect for law can express not identification but some other attitudes , such as acknowledgement on the part of tourists that each country is entitled to regulate its own affairs in its own way . |
| 30 | Here and there , limp bodies float in the shallows and great expanses of the beach are covered with a layer of brown grains that are not sand but eggs . |