Example sentences of "[verb] not [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The root of economic oppression , in the libertarian view , lies not in a given level of the productive forces , but in the ‘ relations of production ’ , in the way in which individuals and groups relate to one another in the process of producing wealth . |
| 2 | Is he aware that many of us are concerned because the next generation of inward investment will be attracted not by a low-wage economy or a low-wage work force , but by the best trained and educated work force in Europe ? |
| 3 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 4 | The improvements have come not in a dramatic way but week by week over a number of months . |
| 5 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |
| 6 | The announcement was made at a rally in Manila to celebrate the 92nd anniversary of the Philippines ' independence from Spain , during which Aquino emphasized that the new organization was designed not as a political party but as a vehicle for " all citizens who want to help the Philippine nation " . |
| 7 | Megill writes not as a literary critic but as a philosophically trained historian of ideas . |
| 8 | Crakehall village hall , in Coronation Road , is an impressive building with , upstairs , an Arthur Daley room dedicated not to a nice little earner but to a much missed late resident . |
| 9 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |
| 10 | No water flows from the sprinklers here , and clearly has n't for a long time . |
| 11 | But this is the room eventually we 're going to use I mean not for a long time yet , as a working medieval kitchen . |
| 12 | To say ‘ the Word was made flesh ’ , then , refers not to a simple identity of God and Jesus but to a relationship in which God lovingly identifies himself in and with a real human person , 80 that that person can truly be called the Word , the self-communication and self-objectification of God in human terms … . |
| 13 | This term refers not to a single theory but rather to a set of assumptions underlying a particular approach to the study of perception and cognition . |
| 14 | In practice women and men are involved in different ways in giving and receiving support , but much of this is explained not by a cultural definition of what counts as women 's business or men 's business , but by three other factors . |
| 15 | He was looking not for a new policy for Britain , but for a political protege for himself , someone who would be more gracious and romantic than Chamberlain . |
| 16 | I recently met Mrs Kjaersgaard in London to discuss our common objective to forge a link between parliamentarians across Europe who wish to see Europe united not by a single government but with a free market . |
| 17 | The state is seen not as a neutral body , but as the key agency in the promotion of the interests and values of the ruling class in capitalist society . |
| 18 | The older coherence of a specialized literate culture was challenged alike by these genuine initiatives and by the eventually widespread reproduction of imputed popular material , in speculative and profitable works designed for an expansion seen not as a changing culture but as a new and decisive market . |
| 19 | Officers were no longer members , and increasingly education came to be seen not as a separate or specialized concern of local government but as a service to be considered alongside housing , transport , or rubbish collection . |
| 20 | It is seen not as a racial characteristic but as identical with race . |
| 21 | More importantly , they show how , even in what is regarded as the most basic type of communication , the context that is relevant to the disambiguation of deixis should be seen not as a physical setting that is fixed and given once and for all , but rather as a cognitive space that is actively constructed by participants in the course of the interaction . |
| 22 | He was born in another age , the age when we played not for a million dollars in prize-money , or television sets , or holidays in the sun , but for the simple , exhilarating pleasure of golf itself . |
| 23 | Equally , hostility towards peasants who had left the commune came not from a proletarianized peasantry presaging a movement beyond capitalism to socialized large-scale farming , but from ‘ traditional ’ households who desired a redistribution of the land amassed by their more successful neighbours . |
| 24 | Urban Programme funding has , therefore , all too often operated not as a last resort , supporting imaginative projects , but as a substitute for resources cut from other budgets . |
| 25 | Grunwald , for example , writing originally in Germany in 1934 , argued that the sociology of knowledge was founded not in a secure epistemology but in a metaphysical assertion of the relationship between knowledge and social being . |
| 26 | Britain 's church life has been compared not to a virgin landscape but to a garden which has been planted already . |
| 27 | After the banning of the CPSU these liberal groups decided to form a new left-wing party based not on a new programme but on the liberal and , in essence , social democratic programme of the CPSU . |
| 28 | The success of this particular work pattern relied not on a formal structure , but on the economics of the time and the close personal relationships created within the team . |
| 29 | Oxford recruits not as a whole University but by college . |
| 30 | Not only was there no capping of the excessive expenditure that Labour councils were bound to indulge in , but my right hon. Friend insisted that it should be introduced not as a phased tax but all in one year . |