Example sentences of "[adj] not [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practical consequence of the range of laws we have described was that , by 1979 , the freedom to engage in peaceful protest in this country was traditionally dependent not on the law but rather on the benevolent exercise of discretion by those in power . |
| 2 | A trust is what is left not in civil-law words but precatively , and is dependent not on the rigour of the civil law but on the intention or the settlor . |
| 3 | For example , indeterminate and semi-indeterminate sentences ( such as ‘ one year to life ’ ) became more and more common in the USA , with release dates dependent not upon the sentence passed at trial but upon the parole process . |
| 4 | Likewise , Mr Clark has had to explain that his remark to Mr Lamont ( ‘ I can see you were n't at Eton ’ ) is derogatory not of the chancellor but of Mr Clark 's alma mater , where ‘ you were surrounded by shits and knew what shits were , the sort of people who could vote against Her in the first round . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The legislation of Guntram , Childebert II and Chlothar II is indicative not of the work of one man , but of the style and practice of Merovingian law-giving in the late sixth and early seventh centuries . |
| 7 | The legislation was flawed not by the requirement of sanctions , claimed Bush , but by the rigid manner in which they were to be imposed , which would " harm US economic interests and provoke friendly countries who are essential to our efforts to resist Iraqi aggression " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In 1900 , on the initiative of William II , it was made clear that military attachés were subordinate not to the head of the mission of which they were formally members but only to the kaiser himself . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | What I have just offered have been partial readings of the Haec Vir pamphlet and The Roaring Girl , partial not in the sense ( at least this is not what I 'm confessing ) of being distortions of the texts , but rather readings that focus upon textual elements which can be correlated with oppositional cultural elements within Jacobean society , and consequently possible audience positions and reading responses . |
| 12 | I would like to start a Homewatch Scheme which is concerned not with the preservation of property , but love and concern for the people who live there . |
| 13 | From this point onwards historians have tended to lose interest in the debates over classification , assuming that they were increasingly concerned not with the principle of how to determine relationships , but with disagreements over practical applications of the technique . |
| 14 | Drawing and painting are narrative arts where the figures are concerned not with the spectator but with one another and the action they are taking part in , so the opposite convention prevails : they are normally shown with faces and feet in profile . |
| 15 | For instance , many speakers of English feel that the sub-classification of garden birds into sparrows , robins , thrushes , blackbirds , etc. is comparable not with the division of animals into dogs , cats , sheep , and so on , but with the sub-classification of dogs into spaniels , poodles , alsatians , and the like . |
| 16 | Remember that what your reader wants is not all the facts that a real-life situation would involve but only what I call the " fiction-facts ' , those pieces of information that are necessary not for the situation in the real world you might be describing but for the story you are telling . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He did not envisage the participation of representatives of the Afghan government in such a conference , which he emphasised would be devoted not to the status of Afghanistan but to ‘ terminating interference in Afghanistan ’ as a condition for restoring its character as a non-aligned state . |