Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw this small sum not as a personal insult but as a gain for the charity I was supporting . |
| 2 | Procedure Audit can be used to examine and review any of these , not as a financial tool or a means of apportioning blame for failure , but as a device for assessing the effectiveness of a procedure and the efficient use of associated resources . |
| 3 | The older coherence of a specialized literate culture was challenged alike by these genuine initiatives and by the eventually widespread reproduction of imputed popular material , in speculative and profitable works designed for an expansion seen not as a changing culture but as a new and decisive market . |
| 4 | He even envisaged the absorption of East Germany into the Twelve , not as a new state but as an ‘ extension of the territory of an existing member ’ . |
| 5 | It would , for the first time , draw the outside world into the war not as a neutral peacekeeper but as an enemy of one side . |
| 6 | The ANC regarded Strydom not as a political prisoner but as a racist psychopath . |
| 7 | The announcement was made at a rally in Manila to celebrate the 92nd anniversary of the Philippines ' independence from Spain , during which Aquino emphasized that the new organization was designed not as a political party but as a vehicle for " all citizens who want to help the Philippine nation " . |
| 8 | They may be , indeed they usually are , based on freshly invented material or the composer may take a plainsong melody not as a cantus firmus but for plastic treatment through all the parts , as Gombert does in his ‘ Salve regina ’ . |
| 9 | They see urban decay not as a peripheral manifestation nor as a growing pain , but as a chronic condition of social polarization that is becoming firmly entrenched in British society . |
| 10 | Not only was there no capping of the excessive expenditure that Labour councils were bound to indulge in , but my right hon. Friend insisted that it should be introduced not as a phased tax but all in one year . |
| 11 | Most ancient and medieval writers thought of human life not as a continuous development but instead as punctuated by a number of sudden changes from one ‘ age ’ to the next . |
| 12 | In so doing it also crossed what the Swiss recognise as an ancient cultural frontier which in this part of the country runs not as a straight line but in a curve in clockwise direction , through the Brunig Pass , the centre of the highland massif known as the Napf , and the river Reuss which flows out from the Vierwaldstattersee at Luzern . |
| 13 | Rather than remove these reminders of Glasgow 's past , the city 's planners wisely insisted that the facade survived not as a real building but almost as a museum exhibit whose Stones of Venice had appeared two years earlier . |
| 14 | The alternative view sees constitutions not as a conscious creation but rather as an evolutionary consequence made up of ‘ substantive principles to be deduced from a nation 's actual institutions and their development ’ ( McIlwain , ibid . ) . |
| 15 | Megill writes not as a literary critic but as a philosophically trained historian of ideas . |
| 16 | Looking at contemporary art he discerns ‘ an attempt to reinstate the object not as a tonal equation or as a decorative symbol , but as the thing itself ’ . |
| 17 | Suppose that I have a sudden impulse to settle when I retire in the village where I was born ; but reality breaks in , I recognize that I had better remember it not as a nostalgic vision but as I indeed saw it before experiencing the city , admit to myself that it will have changed beyond recognition , try to anticipate living in it not as I am now but as an old man who no longer easily makes new friends , try to see myself through the villagers ' eyes as already a stranger who may no longer deserve a welcome . |
| 18 | Oxford recruits not as a whole University but by college . |
| 19 | It is seen not as a racial characteristic but as identical with race . |
| 20 | Gramsci saw the dichotomy between the two not as a centre-periphery relationship but rather as an aspect of the way in which the interests of monopoly capital used the state to keep the undeveloped areas repressed and passive ; Gramsci describes the south variously as ‘ a semi-colonial market ’ , a ‘ source of savings and taxes ’ and a ‘ pool of cheap docile reserve labour ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ If I knew where a deserter was it would be my duty , not as a military man but as a citizen , to report him if I could n't persuade him to give himself up . |
| 22 | If the charge on the property in favour of the husband is not for a fixed amount but is expressed to be equivalent , for example , to one third of the net proceeds of sale , then the husband has acquired a chargeable asset ( Marren v Ingles [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 983 ) and payment of the capital sum by way of redemption of the charge would appear to be a disposal for capital gains tax purposes ( TCGA 1992 , s22 ) . |
| 23 | Even though the problem shows that the full crime was consummated , the culprits may be convicted of attempt or incitement , so that it may be relevant to mention these crimes — though normally , of course , the indictment would be for the completed crime , not for a mere attempt or incitement . |
| 24 | Votes are not for a particular person but for a list put up by a party . |
| 25 | Thus , the administration referred to is not of a governmental nature and the other legislation to which I was referred is of no assistance . |
| 26 | What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) . |
| 27 | I questioned the bishop about this and found that the monument needed immediate attention but was not of a high priority and no funds were available . |
| 28 | As the importance of caring for carers has become more widely recognised , so too has the realisation that making better support for carers a reality is the responsibility not of a single agency but of many . |
| 29 | At the time of Domesday the manor was not unlike a small kingdom or a dominion within which the lord was a superior over subjects of different ranks , his power though being not absolute but according to custom and law . |
| 30 | ‘ He was not in a life-threatening condition and I was happy with him . ’ |