Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be noted , however , that the disambiguation required by the present project is not between multiple word senses , but instead between multiple interpretations of the input . |
| 2 | The problems of the older cities were to be resolved — if resolved they ever were — on the spot and not through planned decentralization . |
| 3 | Virtue was manifested by acting virtuously , not through passive reflection . |
| 4 | Cavaillès developed these ideas into a theory of science as such , which , he argued , changed not through empirical discovery but through the theoretical reworking of its own concepts in the ‘ pure ’ sciences . |
| 5 | The second of the views we have noted derives from a claim that the route to indubitable knowledge is not through empirical experience of the external world , but through logical , that is rational , principles which are beyond doubt . |
| 6 | But dominion in the Atlantic cable ventures came about not through technological pre-eminence but via another British near-monopoly at that time : capital . |
| 7 | Many adult smokers continue smoking not through unfettered choice but because they are addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes . |
| 8 | He envisaged an emancipation from reification would come not through abstract reflection alone but through ‘ praxis ’ : |
| 9 | The national independence of both Germany and Italy came not through agrarian revolution , but through the force of arms of established powers . |
| 10 | Hence , our data strongly suggest that the inhibiting effects of indomethacin is not through cyclo-oxygenase inhibition . |
| 11 | The working hypothesis reached by the counsellor has to be transferred to the counsellees , not through direct transmission , but by helping them achieve their own insights . |
| 12 | To dismiss the doctrine of consideration as not worth serious attention because |
| 13 | He did indeed believe in the autonomy of art , but as the exultation of the conflicts of history and not as pure commentary . |
| 14 | Do n't let it become the jealously guarded property of one person — treat it as one more tool for teachers to use , not as specialist equipment only the technician is allowed to touch . |
| 15 | Getting acceptance of the technical specification by these functions is the first hurdle for the project manager ; the process should be viewed as a form of insurance that the proposals are not going to give rise to problems in these areas , not as unwarranted interference with the job . |
| 16 | Not as wild boar running free and doing untold damage to the countryside , as in Italy , France and Germany ; but as farmed wild boar which should ease your mind , even if it causes the farmers untold headaches . |
| 17 | Many of the limitations appear not as abrupt cut-off points , distinguishing what we can do from what we ca n't , but as limitations of rate . |
| 18 | It was not as fast ascent . |
| 19 | But it is vital that this is seen not as legitimizing self-centredness , introspection or social irresponsibility , but as a means to ever deeper exploration of life in its totality . |
| 20 | Is the Home Secretary aware that the argument is not about bogus asylum seekers ? |
| 21 | The aim would be to help people ‘ who never find love , it 's not about casual sex . ’ |
| 22 | The suggestion made was that it was not about economic development , but about buying off the nationalist community . |
| 23 | They are not about industrial democracy at all . |
| 24 | A third is that many of the buy-outs and recapitalisations succeeded because the managers knew something the shareholders did not about future cash flows . |
| 25 | You have already noticed that some people speak more clearly than others , but this chapter is not about good articulation . |
| 26 | It was about sex — not about sexual politics — but another show was about to go on the road , and Oz had got there first . |
| 27 | Effectiveness , by contrast , is not about relative performance but about achieving pre-set targets or objectives . |
| 28 | David Helton replies : I agree that there 's some quite beautiful romantic poetry in the Bible — a tribute to King James 's translators as much as anyone — but the statement of mine that you object to actually read : ‘ After page one , the Bible is not about raw nature very much . ’ |
| 29 | It was not about special food for diabetics , but that there was no food to give them and family members had to go out to get something because there was nothing available and these were insulin-dependant diabetics . |
| 30 | Mobility training is not about improving flexibility - it is about ensuring a smooth action throughout the range of movement . |