Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In two lectures in 1857 he attributed crime not to personal depravity but the corrupting tendencies of the law . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The order of the points in the article corresponds to the progress of an article from submission to eventual publication not to perceived seriousness . |
| 8 | Use pick and fingers for this one , and set your amp not to full distortion but to a slight overdrive . |
| 9 | ‘ The idea of having a queen not in full communication with her husband is inconceivable . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She concluded that the research indicated the need not for social training , but for : |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , the issue is settled by positive evidence not by ingenious explanation of the failure to confirm the idea . |
| 16 | At times the FTC appears to spend much of its time worrying about how it can control the anti-competitive actions not of private business but of fellow bureaucrats who are busy promoting cartels . |
| 17 | This was a criticism not of Gothic design nor of church building but of extravagant expenditure . |
| 18 | Ivory tower allergists discount reactions to food unless an IgE mechanism has been proved , but denying them or attributing them to hypochondriasis is a sign not of scientific superiority but of a head in the sand mentality . |
| 19 | Neighbours not in direct danger were advised to stay in their homes . |
| 20 | Wales was conquered and subjected in the middle ages , Scotland 's parliament and administration were absorbed in 1707 , Ireland lost all but local administration in 1801 and the British upper classes reacted in horror at the prospect not of Irish independence but of an element of internal self-government when it was proposed by Gladstone in 1886 . |
| 21 | It occurs in kitchens , bathrooms , rooms not in general use , behind wardrobes and around windows . |
| 22 | Characters not of Good alignment suffer a -5 penalty to all tests here . |
| 23 | It was a fear expressed across the religious spectrum of antislavery and a major source of the conviction , particularly of Unitarians , that the slave trade was a subject not for sectarian difference but for the united opposition ‘ of the various denominations of Christians ’ . |
| 24 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 25 | As a people , the Basques are the oddity of Western Europe , because of their language , the eskuara as it is called , which is one of the great linguistic mysteries , being the only language of Western Europe not of Indo-European stock . |
| 26 | In 1988 the university purportedly terminated the applicant 's contract of employment not for good cause but on the ground of redundancy , giving him three months ' written notice . |
| 27 | To choose between individual partnerships which feed benefit into the school and large associations which have potential value for a larger community is a matter not of managerial choice from day to day but of planning and drafting at the level of the institutional development plan . |
| 28 | For instance , winking groups with other ways of warning or of doubting or of sharing complicity , depending on a context which is a matter not of physical description but of the form of social intercourse . |
| 29 | The contributors to Passion have expressed the desire to support the Project not for financial gain or fame ( although these are by-products on occasion ! ) . |
| 30 | Sixteen year olds not in full-time education will be entitled to a new traineeship lasting for up to two years , with an option of a further two years . |