Example sentences of "not [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | It recognises that the newer and better way to govern the law-breaker is not through the expiring system of the cell and the lash , but rather through the mind and the heart ( Bridgwater , 1909 , p. 9 ) . |
| 3 | All protection is carried out through the power of the ‘ thoughts ’ of individuals , and not through the physical bellicosity of men in groups . |
| 4 | With the co-operation of Sir Landon Ronald and the LSO he plays the E flat Concerto as a work of true musical substance and stature , not as a mere vehicle for heart-on-sleeve display . |
| 5 | It had absorbed the autonomist Right-On thinking and described itself not as a political party as such , but as ‘ The Revolutionary Socialist Organization ’ . |
| 6 | Leese 's view was that the chief function of the IFL was a training organization for an élite of anti-semitic propagandists , not as a political party in its own right . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Landform inheritance ( e.g. Pain , 1978 ) is therefore a concept emphasized by some researchers in environments of this kind , and Ollier ( 1979 , 1981 ) proposes evolutionary geomorphology not as a cyclic approach with a sequence of stages but suggests that the earth 's landscapes as a whole are evolving through time and this is analogous to the concept of an evolving earth as used in some geology books ( e.g. Windley , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 12 | Even when , towards the end of the war , they decided to join the ILP , they embraced socialism , not as a radical break with previous assumptions , but as a natural extension of their pre-war New Liberal commitment to social reform and co-operation with labour . |
| 13 | To read them in an historical frame of mind is to see the death of Rassendyll , by an assassin 's bullet , not as a fortunate escape from prolonged misery but as the formal seal on a pact of honour . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And he has made it clear that an all-German election should be held next year at the earliest , not as a quick substitute for the West German one in December . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A block should be used as a deflection , not as a head-on challenge to an oncoming technique . |
| 20 | He is fundamental , that is , not as a privileged object in a world of objects , but as an existential subject ; someone who can " transcend " the world of objects , and is able to understand the difference between being and not-being . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is possible that he now established Anna 's brother , Aethelhere ( see Appendix , Fig. 5 ) in his place , to judge from Aethelhere 's presence in Penda 's army at the Winwaed , if not as a dependent ruler at least as an ally ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 23 | Voluntariness will be understood , however , not as the decisive act by which an individual surrenders private autonomy , but rather as a deliberate entry into market relations under which certain obligations will arise in order to sustain and regulate an advanced division of labour . |
| 24 | ‘ . Primitive and child are again linked , but not as the second childhood of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 25 | Britain 's importance now lies in being part of one of the world 's great trading blocs , the European Community , not as the ever-dependable ally of the Reagan and Bush years . |
| 26 | ‘ Self-government ’ was thus conceived not as the inevitable prelude to letting India go , as it appeared at the time and has appeared since to eyes less clouded than Montagu 's by belief in the possibility of voluntary servitude , but as the natural means of keeping it . |
| 27 | In the critical approach to knowledge , both the commonsense view and the academic view of the world are seen as views and not as an absolute account of the world . |
| 28 | Dawson was interested in history ‘ not as an inorganic mass of isolated events , but as the manifestation of the growth and mutual interaction of living cultural wholes ’ . |
| 29 | Since the Greeks looked back on the Mycenaean past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ of gods and heroes , they tended to regard history as a decline from this ideal state and not as an ultimate order of reality . |
| 30 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |