Example sentences of "[adj] not [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ask this not as a government minister might , faced with the seemingly interminable demands of research scientists for more and more funds , but to try to see what relationship research bears to knowledge . |
| 2 | Most failures in examinations are due not to a deficiency of knowledge but chiefly to lack of familiarity with the techniques of playing the examination game . |
| 3 | The POR was set up in 1935 not as a breakaway from an orthodox Communist party ( none existed in Bolivia until the formation of the PIR in 1940 ) but as the party of a group of intellectuals attracted by Trotsky 's ideas and personality . |
| 4 | We sit against the wall , beneath a slogan reading ‘ Rescue My Foot ’ which has been spray-painted not by a patron , but by the owner , Abel . |
| 5 | Theories were valuable not as a guide to research , but as a prop to the young sprig : they were good insofar as they made a mass of information easier to handle and to remember . |
| 6 | In each of these examples the speaker is producing an utterance which is relevant not as a description of a state of affairs but as a representation of another utterance which it resembles . |