Example sentences of "[noun] not [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also possible that acid base transport systems regulate cell proliferation not via changes in pH i but via secondary effects on intracellular Na or Cl - concentrations or cell volume . |
| 2 | Kirk was n't about to look a gift horse not with Peterborough so desperate for points . |
| 3 | The only Arab member of the anti-Iraq coalition not in attendance was Morocco . |
| 4 | Defendant not in possession |
| 5 | 15 December 1991 for candidates not including Oxford or Cambridge among their entries . |
| 6 | The last dates for the receipt of applications are : candidates including Oxford or Cambridge among their entries by 15 October 1993 ; candidates not including Oxford or Cambridge among their entries by 15 December 1993 . |
| 7 | France now offered Germany a road to the future not as part of a German-Soviet alliance or as an American bastion in Europe , but as part of a European entity . |
| 8 | performance also improves if the evaluation stems partly from the employee and is a prelude not to recrimination , but to further goal setting . |
| 9 | And er some of the things that er all assignment details are sent to the to the estate agent not to home . |
| 10 | It is a shame that Leigh Delamere should be associated in the public mind not with Joseph Neeld and his eccentricities but the drab utilitarianism of the M4 services nearby . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | From a sample of 162 eventual fellows of the society who had been over sixteen in 1642 , and therefore old enough to have taken sides in the civil war , and discounting foreigners not in England during the war years ( and a further 22 for whom there is inadequate documentation ) , 38 fought for , or supported , Parliament , while 85 were royalist in 1642 . |
| 13 | Nazism was the result not of inflation , but of the counter-inflationary measures that did so much damage . |
| 14 | The problems that have beset the project , however , are a result not of misjudgement or incompetence but of real difficulties associated with infrared astronomy , which have meant that IRAS has required certain aspects of space technology to be developed well beyond previous limits . |
| 15 | I shou 'd like a cloth one best if you please — I beg of your Sir to be so good as not to fail me this Cardinal by Wednesday , without fail , but let it be full yard long I beg , or else it will not do fail not on Wednesday , and in so doing you will very much oblige me . |
| 16 | We must consider the mandate not in party terms but in personal terms . |
| 17 | Wright not for sale |
| 18 | Slum youths hurled bricks and fired shops not in support of Jeffersonian ideals , but because of their poverty . |
| 19 | But the emphasis on control rather than competition in the relationships , and the sponsors ' proprietorial pride , indicates their resemblance to relationships not with sons , but with high-achieving , perpetually infantilized daughters . |
| 20 | We identify words not by virtue of any intrinsic qualities in them , but by virtue of their difference from one another , and it is therefore their differences which allow words to give meaning to things by dividing up the continuum of experience . |
| 21 | ( ( P' , Q' , R' ) is simpler than ( P , Q , R ) if each of its components is a ( not necessarily proper ) syntactic subcomponent of the corresponding component of ( P , Q , R ) , except possibly for changes of variables not in x . |
| 22 | The wider impact of this decision was to define the scope of judicial review not in terms of the source of the power being exercised but rather by reference to the functions of judicial review and its appropriateness in particular cases . |
| 23 | In the second the press is restrained by its own professional Code of Practice not to misrepresent or mislead the public . |
| 24 | That question asks us to change our focus and consider our legal practice not in cross-section but over some stretch of time . |
| 25 | We discussed the concept of ‘ protection ’ as protection into emotion not from emotion . |
| 26 | Delta Airlines , the only other major US carrier not in play , also fell about a dollar . |
| 27 | As Jakobson put it , ‘ we are dealing in essence not with thought but with verbal facts ’ . |
| 28 | In The Independent of 23 July 1987 Baroness Cox argues that black parents are motivated to demand their own separate schools not by dissatisfaction or frustration with the way that racism is institutionalized in state education , but because they want ‘ a good old-fashioned British education ’ for their children . |
| 29 | Money was the key not to happiness — they were too fine for that — but unashamedly the answer to material necessity . |
| 30 | Constant purchasing power ( CPP ) accounting uses nearly all the same conventions and standards as historical cost ( HC ) accounting , except that it measures profit or loss not in terms of money but against a yardstick of maintaining purchasing power capital . |