Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun sg] [conj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other curious example was Kaffe Fassett and that knitting series which was not about knitting but about colour , Glorious Colour . |
| 2 | We bought , we bought him a load of revision books erm from Smith 's er not for maths but for chemistry , biology , physics , ma , not maths something else , Cherry went and bought four of them and Helen had got one for French anyway , so we told him he 's got to erm get down to some serious |
| 3 | Stahl belongs to that dyed-in-the-wool amateur breed who follow the sun not for money but for fun . |
| 4 | Gustave Doré 's mid-nineteenth-century caricature depicts Russian landowners gambling not for money but for bundles of serfs . |
| 5 | They are designed not for experimentation but for implementation . |
| 6 | Caroline modelled not for Valentino but for Fabbiano and designers like him , whose careers would last only fractionally longer than the lives of fruit flies , whose successes were dependent not on talent but on flash and dash . |
| 7 | The Yorkshire Annual Report for 1920 recalled that " November 1918 found all Party organizations the worse — not for War but for inactivity " . |
| 8 | She and the film show us in corruscating detail the real difficulties of the character 's position , and asks us not for approval but for understanding and perhaps the grace of mercy . |
| 9 | It is when they first suffer for Christ that the earliest apostles return to their friends , pray ( not for safety but for boldness ) , and find the place shaken by the Holy Spirit ( Acts 4:29–31 ) . |
| 10 | In October the hills around here are alive , to the sound not of music but of shotguns . |
| 11 | And in all this system , these rudimentary ploys , these crude but , oh , so effective mind games , I discerned the hand not of Goreng but of Rebus . |
| 12 | That is the prospect not of success but of disaster later . |
| 13 | His attachment to the ‘ theory of courage ’ made him believe that the Western world in his lifetime had been short not of wit or of strength , but of will . |
| 14 | That still leaves cases in which the judgment was given in terms not of money but of performance . |
| 15 | Liberals were left to pretend that what they were saying was the fruit not of compromise but of virtue . |
| 16 | It was a winter not of discontent but of change and new ideas — a change of direction for me and a widening of horizons . |
| 17 | International politics , he claimed , was the domain not of morality but of power politics . |
| 18 | The number systems we use as yardsticks should be thought of as being made not of wood but of elastic which can be stretched or shrunk to our convenience . |
| 19 | He writes , not of tiredness but of toothache , as follows : |
| 20 | That suggestiveness , though , is much aided by devices not of sense but of sound . |
| 21 | The script kept sending out these little signals ( 'It 's only when there 's land around that sea travel becomes really interesting' ) but it was possible to take them as evidence not of exhaustion but of apprehension about the project . |
| 22 | ‘ Male Ventriloquism ’ was judged to be good work and discounted by the examiners as probably largely by Roland , which was doubly unjust , since he had refused to look at it , and did not agree with its central proposition , which was that Randolph Henry Ash neither liked nor understood women , that his female speakers were constructs of his own fear and aggression , that even the poem-cycle , Ask to Embla , was the work , not of love but of narcissism , the poet addressing his Anima . |
| 23 | But the fires were bonfires and the bells told not of danger but of joy . |
| 24 | But perhaps the new assertiveness of British Muslims should be seen as a sign not of isolation but of integration . |
| 25 | She should come with him to the United Reform Church in Florence and hear messages not of vengeance but of forgiveness . |
| 26 | When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son . |
| 27 | With The Smiths it was a question not of desire but of longing — the yearning to belong to or with someone , to belong somewhere . |
| 28 | President Cerezo is accused not of murder but of neglect . |
| 29 | It was a South African sjambok , a heavy whip nine feet long , the lash not of leather but of rhinoceros hide . |
| 30 | In any building claiming to be classical ( and in many others , of course ) the key principle is one of symmetry ; using the word in its narrow modern sense not of harmony but of parts arranged equally about a line or plane . |