Example sentences of "[noun] [not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Department not in a position to undertake this at present . |
| 2 | Laura was not tough , but possessed a strong character and would see this sort of action not as a sacrifice , but as an act of fulfilment , she was able to project herself through her husband . |
| 3 | The longing for home embodies the feeling of loss not of a place , but of time , and , if I understand your teaching aright , we must not cling to it , but turn outward to the real world . |
| 4 | As I had to go to Beskett this young woman had not long been married and she always used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey , cos I used to go on a bike not in a van , on a carrier bike , she used to ask me to call at her house in Palfrey to see if there were any mail from her husband and he was , there sometimes was sometimes there was n't nothing you know that he 'd written and er one day I 'd got back and er she was all in tears and er he , he had been killed in France and I was glad I did n't have to be the harbinger of the times you know she still lives in Palfrey now Mrs yeah . |
| 5 | In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government . |
| 6 | The theory of evolution was a modern heresy , we I earned ; for God , in this instance not without a taint of mortal sadism , had created the world perfectly finished as it is now , in an instant 's flash of concentration . |
| 7 | Attendance is slightly encouraged by the payment not of a salary but of an allowance for attendance . |
| 8 | The first genuine American station , Mount Clare in Baltimore ( 1830 ) , was a small octagonal street-corner building not unlike a tollhouse . |
| 9 | From a functionalist perspective , mental processes are inferred processes — they gain their status in our theoretical base not as a result of being directly observed or experienced , but from the way in which they enable us to understand and explain human behaviour . |
| 10 | Naturally this enforcement pattern could be justified by the inspectorate who see their primary function not as a kind of industrial police force , but more of a pastoral mission rounding up wayward factory owners and showing them the light and contentment to be gained from compliance with current standards of safety , health , and welfare required by law . |
| 11 | If we reject the idea that context is situation ( although I have accommodated the concept of situation in my definition of context ) we can treat deixis in poetry not as a kind of " pseudo-deixis ' , as some critics such as Culler ( 1974 ) have suggested , but simply as deixis framed by a particular genre . |
| 12 | This functionalist style views law not as a phenomenon which exists on an altogether different plane to government but rather as an instrument which is part of the apparatus of government . |
| 13 | The Jews of his day had come to see the Old Testament law not as a pointer to the life of trusting obedience in God which it was meant to be but rather a code to be scrupulously followed in every detail . |
| 14 | S. F Perry saw the exercise not as a disappointment but as an heartening indicator of future progress : |
| 15 | As I will suggest in chapter eight , the black sportsman sees sport not as a hobby , but as a central life interest , a sphere in which he might find scope for self-expression and a possible avenue out of his mundane , everyday existence . |
| 16 | In other words , it 's a question not of a sprint but a marathon . |
| 17 | Spenser wrote A View of the Present State of Ireland not as a vindication of Elizabethan policy towards Ireland but as a document highly critical of it under a necessarily respectful guise . |
| 18 | If anything , by this time I would have welcomed the security not of a rope , but of seeing Sgurr a Mhaim about a mile closer . |
| 19 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 20 | Now , as the party fodder turned up in their glittering clothes , I began to see that Eva was using the evening not as a celebration but as her launch into London . |
| 21 | Gulf War pollution not as a bad as expected |
| 22 | As Sikes , Measor and Woods have found in their life history interviews with secondary teachers , many teachers regard examinations not as a constraint but as a resource for motivating pupils at an age when their enthusiasm for school might otherwise be waning . |
| 23 | Comparable remarks could be made about Theseus and Achilles because they too at times wore women 's clothes and had their ideal relationship not with a woman , but with a man , as Gilgamesh did . |
| 24 | It would be important to promote a culture in which the discovery of mistakes is regarded by officers not as a method of policing their colleagues but as a means of improving the service and therefore as a source of professional pride . |
| 25 | There was then an open toughness about party tactics ; before the Buckingham Palace Conference in 1914 he had Central Office work out the electoral effects of excluding nine , six or four counties of Ulster from an independent Ireland the concern of a calculating pragmatist not of a bigot . |
| 26 | Predictably , perhaps , I regard this argument not as a demonstration that the acquisition of new concepts is impossible , but as another reductio ad absurdum of the representational theory of the mind . |
| 27 | Ultimately the process of creation is one of intuitively balancing formal elements , and , in the case of the most abstract tribal sculpture , the finished product has the quality not of a representation but a symbol — a re-creation rather than reinterpretation . |
| 28 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 29 | The documents here are proposed for use not as a sword but as a shield ; this is hardly a floodgate situation . |
| 30 | By contrast , the Co-operative Wholesale Agency , proposed in a report to a Co-operative Conference held in June 1851 in Manchester , was to pay one half of the net profits not as a bonus to its employees but as dividends to co-operative retail stores on their purchases from the Agency . |