Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A popular modern interpretation of liberal ideas argues that private autonomy should be lost not through a special exercise of choice but rather through causing harm , or the risk of causing harm , to others . |
| 2 | We might , of course , do the opposite , and try to explain the depictions of temples on coins or patterns of coin loss from our knowledge of surviving temples or official statistics for the money supply , but in this case we would be using coins as secondary evidence and not as a primary source of new information . |
| 3 | At first glance , it seems hardly necessary to make another film about Van Gogh ; but Maurice Pialat , who began his career in the late 1960s , has found a new approach by showing the artist not as a great figure of his times but as a tormented , talented painter living in a village among ordinary folk . |
| 4 | It went on to note that many of the most effective schemes had come about through the voluntary sector as a result of individual enterprise or a one person crusade — not as a logical outcome of a strategic planning process . |
| 5 | He repeated the Comintern formula that " the united front can only be built up from below , by the workers themselves , not as a corrupt bargain of the reformist leaders and disorganisers of the struggle endeavouring to buy off the criticism of the revolutionaries , but as the solid class front of the workers " . |
| 6 | But Izzard became convinced that there was a mystery , and she has written her book not as a chronological narrative of Stark 's life , but in the manner of A J A Symons 's great Quest for Corvo , in which the reader is presented with the biographer 's discoveries in the order in which they are made , as if it were a whodunit . |
| 7 | If , and it was a very big ‘ if ’ , Riddle 's body had been substituted for the Scapegoat he felt sure that it was not as a convenient way of disposing of the body but to give more effective expression to the hatred which had inspired his killing . |
| 8 | Because every teacher group which decides to discuss disruption will need to find its own starting point , its own trigger for concern or anxiety , the materials are offered , not as a prescribed course of discussion , but as a resource bank from which groups are invited to select discussion units appropriate to their needs . |
| 9 | New York-based Judith Barry 's installation is also uninspiring , didactically retracing familiar issues to do with the dehumanising implications of technology , its potential to control rather than serve humankind. computer generated references to the history of communications fleet across the floorspace between two walls of words , one written as mirror writing but not as a direct reflection of the other . |
| 10 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 11 | However , despite being framed as a negative provision , the House of Lords held that the clause was unenforceable as it lacked certainty in that it was not for a fixed period of duration . |
| 12 | He could , Dalgliesh thought , have been judged an outstandingly handsome man were it not for a certain incongruity of feature , perhaps the contrast between the fineness of the skin stretched over the flat cheekbones and the strong jutting jaw and uncompromising mouth . |
| 13 | He admired gnarled oak , beeches and silver birch , but occasionally he complained bitterly about bad planting , as when looking towards Langdale from near Tilberthwaite : ‘ Langdale on the right would finish the whole into a pleasant landscape , were it not for a frightful plantation of firs blotting out the pass on Wrynose . ’ |
| 14 | Were it not for a severe epidemic of puerperal fever ( ‘ childbed fever ’ ) in Aberdeen , which lasted from December 1789 to March 1792 , Gordon might well have been forgotten . |
| 15 | But it does make one very depressed er that people can vandalise and er infiltrate er a sacred place and take all sorts of things which quite honestly are not of a great deal of value to anybody else . |
| 16 | They greeted Tommaso unselfconsciously , not like a grown-up visitor of the opposite sex with whom they should use manners . |
| 17 | If the engagement period is to be protracted because the couple are young or studying , there may be a big party not unlike a small-scale version of the wedding at which the future bride has a chance to display her ring to well-wishers and acquire presents for the new home , for which the guests must be thanked . |
| 18 | I was in something not unlike a mild state of shock . |
| 19 | Ronnie Peterson , off-track , was a model of milk-drinking virtue and not unlike a whole set of happy-family cards ; James was no model of deportment anywhere , least of all in his marital and other personal relations . |
| 20 | Not with a wishy-washy kind of love , but with the strong love that has no favourites , does n't pamper or fuss , but in which children can feel secure . |
| 21 | But the essential point here , whether or not we describe it in terms of the network model , is that we are concerned not with a superficial survey of the communities , but with obtaining depth of coverage . |
| 22 | She looked across at the film star , not with a great deal of pity . |
| 23 | In trying to meet his responsibility to govern , a president must deal not with a select group of leaders but with a multiplicity of party and committee leaders . |
| 24 | ‘ Not in a greedy kind of way , ’ she said at last . |
| 25 | But not in a boastful sort of way , only because I asked her . ’ |
| 26 | The root of economic oppression , in the libertarian view , lies not in a given level of the productive forces , but in the ‘ relations of production ’ , in the way in which individuals and groups relate to one another in the process of producing wealth . |
| 27 | The universe , viewed in those pre-chloroform days , was dark and painful and horrible , and wherever else the human race derived its image of a loving , moral creator , it was not from a simple contemplation of nature . |
| 28 | Gorbachev then announced his resignation offer because " 70 per cent of the speakers are criticizing me , not from a personal point of view but on behalf of the people " . |
| 29 | ‘ I have made this decision with some regret — but not without a great deal of thought . ’ |
| 30 | The tales were lively , not without a strong hint of bawdiness , but they had brought vividly to life the glittering courts of former days — so different , as Alianor was wont to say with a sigh , from the subdued , uneasy court of the present king . |