Example sentences of "[not/n't] as a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can it ever come to life again , not as a bait and hook for politicians to use , not as a shouting for soccer fans ? |
| 2 | This book shows something of what has emerged out of religious interpretations of death , not as a history of death but as an indication of what lies at the root of the major religious traditions , lending to each its characteristic style . |
| 3 | Both his Chancellors — the two most important figures in the Conservative Party — thought of him , not as a man of promise , but as a man who deserved some reward by virtue of his service . |
| 4 | Mr Smith said : ‘ People should enjoy , as a right of citizenship and not as a privilege of wealth , the opportunity of a good education , the chance to find a decent job with decent pay , the opportunity to buy or rent a decent home . |
| 5 | He praised the US Environmental Protection Agency — ‘ an independent body of scientists who undertake research and research evaluation as a service to government ( but not as a spokesman for government ) . |
| 6 | Leapor 's appeal to the imagery of retirement is somewhat conventional , yet she uses that ideal of landscape not as a pretext for improvement but as a defence of existing topography . |
| 7 | Ruppia maritima or R. cirrhosa occurs in the Outer Hebrides as a species of brackish lochs , and perhaps not as a constituent of saltmarsh as referred to by Adams(1981) and in the NVC . |
| 8 | This is conceived not as a set of hardware but as a comprehensive information system focused on the needs identified by the ESSC ( see above ) and anticipating somewhat those of IGBP . |
| 9 | Churchill , Eden , Macmillan , and Home had been political grandees ; all emerged through the ‘ magic circle , and not as a result of election by MPs . |
| 10 | This includes training , using varieties resistant to certain pests , forecasting and biological control , using pesticides only in response to problems , not as a matter of course . |
| 11 | It is noteworthy that at this time ( when secularised education was patronised by nearly all the governments of Europe including those that were nominally Catholic ) this query was dealt with as a matter of discipline by the Congregation of propaganda , and not as a matter of doctrine by the Congregation of the Inquisition . |
| 12 | Generalizing is a matter of saying what else things identified by the same concept have in common , not as a matter of logic but as a matter of fact . |
| 13 | The power to grant injunctions , which now arises under section 37 of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , is a discretionary power , which should not as a matter of principle be fettered by rules . |
| 14 | The Act does not as a matter of law preclude a court from holding that an action for negligence lies in favour of a person who could formerly have brought an action based on loss of services but in view of the current law on economic loss it seems most unlikely that such a development will occur . |
| 15 | And , indeed , this must be done , not as a matter of sympathy with Ireland , but as a demand made in the interest of the English proletariat . |
| 16 | ‘ But not as a matter of influence as such . |
| 17 | A reserve of justice remained with the King , and so those who could not get relief in the King 's ordinary courts might , with some hope of success , petition the King and his Council for redress , if not as a matter of right at least as a favour . |
| 18 | When appropriate , members of the family can pray for each other , not as a matter of form , but as a genuine response to Christ 's centrality and reality in the life of the family . |
| 19 | I saw her on only one day twenty-two years ago : I have thought of her every day since ; not as a lover of course ( for years past ) but as a spirit apart , unlike anyone else that ever was … |
| 20 | This theoretical concern is more readily seen if we consider the series , not as a piece of psychiatry or social psychology , the only social sciences to have considered character thus far , but instead as something more akin to interpretative sociology . |
| 21 | However , official teaching has gone the other way , becoming increasingly restrictive in its emphasis on the grounds that the sharing of communion is acceptable only as an expression , and not as a cause of unity . |
| 22 | It was evident that the ‘ lads ’ experienced school not as a process of enlightenment , but as a source of oppression . |
| 23 | And I suppose , in our case , John and I should exchange high-fives in squalid thanks to this human talent for forgetting : forgetting , not as a process of erosion and waste , but as an activity . |
| 24 | God gave his inheritance to Abraham by promise , not as a reward for law-keeping ( Gal. 3:18 ) . |
| 25 | Many Shetlanders expressed concern about land being considered not as a resource for production , but as a resource to be treated simply as a kind of nonagricultural commodity i.e. something to be surrendered up from agriculture merely for money . |
| 26 | The V&A 's act can be seen , therefore , not as an act of censorship , but as a healthy reaction to artistic production flawed by error . |
| 27 | Thus — and this is a critical point — refusal of consent is seen not as an assertion of will , but rather as a symptom of unsoundness of mind . |
| 28 | Keir Hardie favoured the general strike , not as an instrument of class struggle and revolution , but because he believed it could make a valuable contribution to maintaining the peace of bourgeois Europe . |
| 29 | The tremendous sense of liberation is in seeing this not as an obstacle to faith , a rock of doubt which blocks progress , but as a part of the essence of life itself . |
| 30 | But I simply want to make the the point of planning principle that you do n't as a matter of approach walk away from constrained sites and say , ah well we do n't like that because there 's some constraint , we 'll go and we 'll reallocate an another piece of land somewhere else , and er that 'll come forward more easily . |