Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More important one should realize that attempts at accommodation between the two new Republics , French and Vietnamese , were taking place not between two sovereign states but between two political forces in the same country , each in the throes of revolution , each unwilling to concede sovereignty to the other . |
| 2 | The choice in the Third World is not between foreign exploitative private capitalism and domestic altruistic communitarian enterprise , in the food or in any other industry . |
| 3 | that 's the reason they went out with those particular mailings , not through any great process of choice . |
| 4 | The most important development in English ecclesiastical architecture , however , during the post-Restoration period came about not through any new religious initiative , but as a result of the ever-present danger of fire . |
| 5 | Commonly enough , melodies are accompanied by harmonies which create atmospheric colour , not through any specific movement of parts ( i.e. rhythmic designs ) but through the beauty of the harmonies themselves and their special relationship with the melody . |
| 6 | He took slightly more interest in his two sons , Arthur and Alan , but not through any natural preference for them ; it was simply that with them he knew better what questions should be asked . |
| 7 | And Fry and the other new pop stars ( Human League , Kid Creole , Soft Cell , Culture Club ) also realized that pop works not through any old combination of sound , image and personality , but through their combination as a commercial package . |
| 8 | This was not through any idealistic belief in unity for its own sake , but because of the way these states viewed their national interests . |
| 9 | Favours are won through reciprocity , not through militant industrial action . |
| 10 | ‘ Once we unite the economy and build one apparatus … all this notorious self-determination is not worth one rotten egg . ’ |
| 11 | Not about this deep |
| 12 | ‘ It 's not about these young chaps in particular , it 's about bottom , ’ boomed McAlpine , who is being described as Neil Kinnock 's speechwriter after the Labour leader , in his resignation statement , quoted his article praising the contribution of the Tory tabloids to the election victory . |
| 13 | For example , a region of the brain that showed increased electrical activity during sexual behaviour , but not during other motivational processes or comparable movements , would have a sexual function ascribed . |
| 14 | Were it not for certain agreeable female attributes , you could very nearly pass yourself off as his double . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah but dad , not for that long . |
| 16 | I mean , he 's been into court but not for that long . |
| 17 | Certainly not for that hapless lad sleeping in a narrow stone cell at this moment . |
| 18 | North replied , without a second thought , ‘ Not for one fleeting moment . ’ |
| 19 | Gravity is the weakest of the four forces by a long way ; it is so weak that we would not notice it at all were it not for two special properties that it has : it can act over large distances , and it is always attractive . |
| 20 | It is not for such radical views , strongly held through they were , that she is remembered , but for the understanding support she gave to thousands of working-class women , giving them the confidence to venture into public life . |
| 21 | It was a genuine mix-up , but it worked out for me — — and not for poor old Mr Munro . |
| 22 | The staff are great but , like many venues around the world , it was built for the architect 's vision , not for practical multi-purpose use into the twenty-first century . |
| 23 | ‘ Windows was not considered robust enough , Novell 's NetWare was considered good for sharing files but not for these new applications . |
| 24 | ‘ Windows was not considered robust enough , Novell 's NetWare was considered good for sharing files but not for these new applications . |
| 25 | The Morton group are seriously looking at adding more units to their press in order to give more colour capacity but this would be reserved primarily for advertisers and not for further editorial colour . |
| 26 | It made little difference that these needles had been for injections and not for some sinister Chinese purpose . |
| 27 | Alternatively , this node can also characterise a text which returns as much satisfaction ( pI ) as effort committed , and a conception of an author writing , not for conventional financial and aesthetic returns , but for different , perhaps programmatic , reasons . |
| 28 | Maybe we should listen out for the noise in the voices of Kristin Hersh , Tim Buckley , Prince , Michael Jackson — the way they chew and twist language not for any decipherable , expressive reason , ( that 's to say , not to accentuate more deeply the conventional mannerisms of ‘ passion ’ ) , but for the gratuitous voluptuousness of utterance itself . |
| 29 | Ken particularly used to enjoy the murder trials — not for any morbid curiosity , but for the drama unfolding . |
| 30 | In the complex interactions between myself and the countless others with whom I am remotely or directly engaged , my self-awareness and the self-regarding inclinations which it generates may occupy only a small part of my field of awareness , and not for any moral reason ; I feel myself spontaneously pulled towards admiration as well as pride , submission as well as power , masochism as well as sadism , judging myself from other viewpoints as well is judging others from mine . |