Example sentences of "[pron] [not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , trying to ration the pain into manageable portions , I slid my hand out again , and then after a while , hardly believing it , I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also , and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow . |
| 2 | He saw them not as a party of racial obsession but as a right-wing ginger group to keep the Conservative party on the proper lines . |
| 3 | For although his authority was supreme , he preferred to regard himself not as a dictator but as a partner , acting together with directors , players and everyone else in the club in a common purpose . |
| 4 | His first words were a salute to the people of South Africa , to whom he declared : " I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you , the people . |
| 5 | I says what was wrong with you not on a corporation t er a corporation bus ? |
| 6 | The Government found itself not in a majority of 87 but in a minority of 92 . |
| 7 | In Poland in 1982 , the best-off fifth of ‘ employee households ’ — anybody not on a farm or retired — got 31% of total ‘ employee ’ income . |
| 8 | It was not surprising that the police and the courts saw him not as a threat , scarcely even as a nuisance , but an eccentric example of English political freedom . |
| 9 | Although there was not one single reason why Harry might suddenly see her not as a sister or friend but as a woman he might fall in love with , deep down inside she still hoped that this unlikely miracle could occur . |
| 10 | This ill-informed comment might be laughed off were it not for a threat , prominently reported in the national press , that the Moi University medical students might not be eligible for full registration upon qualification because of their ‘ sub-standard ’ education . |
| 11 | This unusual system would give the scallop superb eyesight , were it not for a design fault . |
| 12 | Althusser shared Sartre 's opposition to Stalinism 's emphasis on economism and technical determinism , dissociating himself from it not through an assertion of individual agency but through a reformulation of the Marxist thesis of determination by economic relations — redefined as a causal rather than a historical relation . |
| 13 | But now Josie was gradually coming to realise that Lucy was treating it not as a metaphor for anything , but as the literal truth . |
| 14 | The alternative approach of the evaluative typology that Barthes sets out in S/Z privileges the writing of the text , and sees it not as a structure or as a copy of a structure ( poetics ) , but as a practice . |
| 15 | Thermodynamics by contrast is a highly mathematical branch of physics , concerned with relations of heat and work , and conservation of energy really functions in it not as a law but as an axiom : as one of the bases for the deductive , mathematical system . |
| 16 | seeing it not as a game between two teams but between his team and the opposition , a position which not only gave him a particular involvement , but also particular rights of commentary and criticism on the team , the management and the club . |
| 17 | erm So I think you want to regard it not as a sort of glamorous place where the troops were drilling and the drums were beating , but a slightly chaotic and rather dirty place , despite the kings existence . |
| 18 | It was conceived of by all those who participated in it not as a coalition government as generally understood , but as a temporary , emergency government , formed for a single limited purpose : to balance the budget through drastic economies and increases in taxation . |
| 19 | To achieve changes , he suggests selling it not as an end in itself , but as a way to make money . |
| 20 | Why is it not in a state of complete disorder at all times ? |
| 21 | People without the ready money to buy a necessity of life like a house , who had to borrow it not from an individual with the distasteful label ‘ money-lender ’ , but a non-profit mutual cooperation body called a building society , were respectable . |
| 22 | Anyone not on a sheet of paper or who steps off , drops out of the game . |