Example sentences of "[verb] not [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The root of economic oppression , in the libertarian view , lies not in a given level of the productive forces , but in the ‘ relations of production ’ , in the way in which individuals and groups relate to one another in the process of producing wealth . |
| 2 | Is he aware that many of us are concerned because the next generation of inward investment will be attracted not by a low-wage economy or a low-wage work force , but by the best trained and educated work force in Europe ? |
| 3 | The solution was to add a form of the hormone progesterone so that the lining was shed not as a period but as an artificial withdrawal bleed . |
| 4 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 5 | While persecution varies in intensity from country to country and over time within one country , I can think of no Marxist-Leninist government which has not as a matter of official policy harassed , discriminated against and persecuted religious minorities . |
| 6 | The improvements have come not in a dramatic way but week by week over a number of months . |
| 7 | The spores of these plants develop into a thin filmy plant called the thallus which looks not unlike a liverwort and releases its sex cells from its underside where there is permanent moisture . |
| 8 | He looks not like a peasant from Saratov , but a Civil Servant Grade 5 who has just got off the train from Greenwich . |
| 9 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |
| 10 | That means a modified 2-litre Renault 21 Turbo engine , double wishbone suspension and a chassis le Quement said was designed not as a chassis ‘ but as a handling ’ ( sic ) . |
| 11 | The announcement was made at a rally in Manila to celebrate the 92nd anniversary of the Philippines ' independence from Spain , during which Aquino emphasized that the new organization was designed not as a political party but as a vehicle for " all citizens who want to help the Philippine nation " . |
| 12 | Lanham predicts the emergence of a new ‘ rhetoric of the arts ’ which will focus not on a set of ‘ Great Ideas ’ but on ‘ how knowledge is held ’ ( 286 ) , both on the medium and on the message , and of course , on their interaction . |
| 13 | Thus , it is argued that where conversion is probable , the debt should be reported not as a liability but as , or near , equity . |
| 14 | Megill writes not as a literary critic but as a philosophically trained historian of ideas . |
| 15 | Crakehall village hall , in Coronation Road , is an impressive building with , upstairs , an Arthur Daley room dedicated not to a nice little earner but to a much missed late resident . |
| 16 | This is particularly so for workers whose lives are related to work not as a vocation or as a career , but as a job for earning money to spend in private . |
| 17 | Another was for portfolios of firms to be owned not by a pension fund but by a specialist financial or management group : Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts or Hanson , which buy , break up and set strict financial controls for what remains ; Clayton & Dubilier or Forstmann Little , which exert direct supervision over managers ; Berkshire Hathaway , which is a more remote but patient investor . |
| 18 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |
| 19 | Many Shetlanders expressed concern about land being considered not as a resource for production , but as a resource to be treated simply as a kind of nonagricultural commodity i.e. something to be surrendered up from agriculture merely for money . |
| 20 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 21 | I know that my father did use it for a while , lighting the stove with it , but he has n't for a while . |
| 22 | He has n't as a matter of fact |
| 23 | Of course there is a deterring-effect if one knows that one 's going to go not into a discussion where various points of view will be weighed and gradually a view may be achieved , but into a huge argument where tremendous battle lines will be drawn up and everyone who does n't fall in line will be hit on the head . |
| 24 | Plant ecology developed not as a study of the factors affecting the lives and deaths of individual plants and their parts but as a study of the distribution of vegetation types and of particular species . |
| 25 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 26 | ‘ When Euston was first built ’ , reported a Victorian commentator in 1896 , ‘ it was regarded not as a railway station but as a spectacle . |
| 27 | There is a real risk of it being regarded not as a mate but a meal . |
| 28 | While it was generally recognized that the new novelists drew a great deal on their eighteenth and nineteenth century predecessors , this was regarded not as a fault but , on the contrary , all the more reason for admitting them as new bearers of the old standard ( Hansford Johnson 1949:235–3 , Wilson 1958:viii ) . |
| 29 | In both play and pamphlet the contemporary sexual metaphysic is turned inside out : gender division is recognized not as a divinely sanctioned natural order , but as the contingent basis of an oppressive social order . |
| 30 | The title Kirkby Hill Races is something of a misnomer , as it refers not to a race but to an election . |