Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] not [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For appeals against sentences imposed by magistrates are heard not by the Court of Appeal , but by the Crown Court . |
| 2 | Even those within the scheme are finding their rights to benefit in practice are limited not by the fact of marriage per se ( as in the 1930s ) , but by their caring responsibilities . |
| 3 | Seeking to economise its use , Daedalus reflected that most wooden structures are limited not by the strength of wood , but by its stiffness . |
| 4 | In some birds , females are attracted not by the quality of a male 's territory , but by the male himself . |
| 5 | The followers or ‘ administrative staff are selected not on the basis of status or qualification , but according to personal devotion . |
| 6 | To think they are , shows that they are governed not by the Spirit but by the attitudes and outlook of their unregenerate days ( 3:1,3 ) . |
| 7 | The police are directed not to the Polytechnique , but to a nearby student residence , and do not arrive at the Polytechnique until nearly twenty minutes past five . |
| 8 | The conditions under which women , particularly married women , acquire maintenance from the state are determined not by a desire to maintain their incentives to take waged work , but by a concern that they will continue their unwaged work for caring for their families . |
| 9 | For example , Marx 's economic theory insists that behind the surface phenomenon of wildly fluctuating market prices for goods and services there lies an underlying and controlling structure of values , which are determined not by the supply and demand forces which obsess ‘ bourgeois ’ economists , but by the laws of the labour theory of value . |
| 10 | Successive Chancellors have had to acknowledge that , too often , the parity of the pound and the level of interest rates are determined not in the Treasury or even the Bank of England , but in the Bundesbank . |
| 11 | An open school is one where parents are encouraged to visit and participate , where they are perceived not as a problem but more as a solution to problems . |
| 12 | Thus courage and temperance , are conceived not as a restriction on our freedom but as requirements for its full development . |
| 13 | the Guardian of March 1 reported that at a meeting between the government and members of the opposition in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , angry debate had erupted over demands by the opposition that martial law be declared not by the government in exile , but by an emergency national unity government reflecting various political views . |
| 14 | In physical absence , being separated by ‘ injurious distance ’ , the theme of nine or ten consecutive sonnets ( 43 to 51 or perhaps 52 ) , to think of the Friend is again a consolation against misery , since he is ‘ present-absent ’ ( 45 ) in thought or image : After the parting , the reunion ( 97 ) : Now the poet juxtaposes with great deliberation ‘ actual time ’ and ‘ actual weather ’ against personal climate , those subjective feelings which are controlled not by the calendar but by our individual experience . |
| 15 | As deputy lieutenants are chosen not by the Queen or the Downing Street appointments secretary , but by the existing lord lieutenant , ‘ subject to the non-disapproval of the Queen ’ , most of the lieutenancy is a self-electing little clique . |