Example sentences of "[noun] not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To read and write , to borrow books and debate , to study the sciences and learn a foreign tongue — all these were so many steps not of economic advancement but of human dignity . |
| 2 | To emphasise their changed attitude to Germany the Allies were politically represented in West Germany in future not by Military Governors , but by High Commissioners . |
| 3 | Ladislav explained that the constantly changing maze of roadworks and diversions in Prague was the result not of ambitious renewal programmes , but of bureaucracy gone mad . |
| 4 | The familiar adage is that ethnographic research provides depth by sacrificing breadth but , as Finch ( 1986 ) argues , it is possible to build an element of generality into this type of research not by random sampling , which is usual in quantitative research , but by constructing individual projects in the mould of similar ones in different settings so that comparisons can be made and a body of cumulative knowledge established . |
| 5 | If people are aware of the fact that ( torture ) is the fault not of bad people but of bad systems — social , economic , political — then they will be more careful , and will examine the systems and try to change them , not the people . ’ |
| 6 | In two lectures in 1857 he attributed crime not to personal depravity but the corrupting tendencies of the law . |
| 7 | Wage or salary levels commensurate with skills and responsibility and workload not with perceived social status or the traditional position in the hierarchy . |
| 8 | In 1983 temporary workers not in special schemes made up 5.5 per cent of the total labour force not in special schemes ; in 1986 they made up 5.6 per cent [ see Table 1.13 ] . |
| 9 | It 's as if we are taking part not in real life but in a piece of reportage on the British constitutional system ’ ( 22 October 1964 ) . |
| 10 | In response to a shortage of sites for further airfield construction , and also to save on huge construction costs , typically about £500,00 , a scheme was submitted to the Air Ministry whereby aircraft could take-off not on conventional runways , but by means of centrifugal launchers . |
| 11 | The fact that all five wrote of their understanding of " mystical " experience not in Latin but in English is a sign of their times . |
| 12 | Alternatively , it may be done through linking rewards not to individual efforts but to organizational success and service . |
| 13 | In the spirit of the infra-red camera whose false colour makes an image of the scene not in optical brightness but temperature , the Discocam records each element in a false colour corresponding to distance . |
| 14 | The order of the points in the article corresponds to the progress of an article from submission to eventual publication not to perceived seriousness . |
| 15 | Use pick and fingers for this one , and set your amp not to full distortion but to a slight overdrive . |
| 16 | ‘ The idea of having a queen not in full communication with her husband is inconceivable . |
| 17 | I am sure you would agree that , when an hon. Member uses the term filibuster to describe our proceedings , that is a slur not on Labour Members but on the Chairman of the Committee in question . |
| 18 | Indeed , in another passage in the Ali differentiates the haric elli ( and 40-akce ) and dahil grades of medreses on the basis not of geographical location but of their builders — the 40-akce and medreses being the foundations of the families of pre-Ottoman rulers and [ Ottoman ] vezirs and emirs , the medreses the foundations of the families of Ottoman sultans — method of classification which accords rather better with the actualities of his time ( late sixteenth century ) but which provides no apparent explanation for the terms themselves . |
| 19 | The Prince looked upon the towns as part of his patrimony and those townsmen not on monastic or boyar land as his tenants . |
| 20 | These ‘ philosophical naturalists ’ searched for the order of Nature not in natural laws of the kind familiar to the physicist , but in universal patterns linking the diverse forms of living structure , patterns that were seen as a direct product of the Creator 's rational thought . |
| 21 | In 1983 temporary workers not in special schemes made up 5.5 per cent of the total labour force not in special schemes ; in 1986 they made up 5.6 per cent [ see Table 1.13 ] . |
| 22 | Mr Smith inspired conference not with powerful platform oratory but with a sincere concern for the future of Britain and the well-being of all its people . |
| 23 | They agreed on the direction of change , Yel'tsin suggested in October 1990 , but not about its tempo ; Gorbachev , for his part , professed to see the difference not in personal terms but as one between ‘ two different political lines and programmatic aims ’ . |
| 24 | The new pattern of variety was an adornment to what Michael Chanan has called ‘ the night-time city ’ , and the whole beauty of the format was that everything took place not in sordid cellars or popular drinking places but in buildings that had much of the appearance and many of the conventions of legitimate theatre . |
| 25 | Such a notion — anathema in the West — is commonplace in Japan , where most art sales take place not in independent galleries or auction rooms , but in omnibus retail outlets like Takashimiya , Mitsukoshi and Seibu . |
| 26 | She concluded that the research indicated the need not for social training , but for : |
| 27 | Indeed , one wonders if the play was written as a conservative response to the controversy , since it directly addresses the most challenging claim or implication of the radical transvestite , namely , that gender division and inequality are a consequence not of divine or natural law but of social custom . |
| 28 | Above all , the reader is led into the inevitable decline from triumph to despair not by authorial direction but obliquely through Judd 's halting attempt to understand what has happened . |
| 29 | The results suggest that in 1981 , for a married couple with two children ( wife not in paid work ) in the basic band for income tax and below the national insurance ceiling , the overall marginal tax rate on gross employee remuneration ( GER ) was 53 per cent . |
| 30 | They have exercised control over procedural rights not by rigid prior categorisation , but rather by admitting that natural justice or fairness applies and varying the content of those rules according to the facts of the case . |