Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] not [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It has been referred to as the weapon of the strong and not of the weak . |
2 | This was a man entirely under the sway of the Eternal and not of the material . |
3 | He argued that the bread and wine somehow coexisted with the body and blood , and more importantly that the miracle occurred because of the presence of the faithful and not as a result of the magical powers of the priest . |
4 | For instance , corporate crime is clearly committed for the corporate and not against it . |
5 | A superiority of the right ear was obtained in the structured but not in the unstructured condition . |
6 | ‘ There is a crisis in Marxism ’ , Sartre announced at the beginning of the Critique ; this crisis , not the first and not to be the last , Sartre characterized as the result of a paradox in which historical materialism had become ‘ at one and the same time , the only truth of History and a total indetermination of the Truth ’ ( I , 19 ) . |
7 | As expected , he found a higher correlation between the economic indicators and vocational schooling than general secondary schooling — but only in the developing and not in the affluent countries . |
8 | Yet the links between the provincial and the national press meant that it would be complicated , if not illogical , to allow investment by the former but not by the latter . |
9 | They may each act alone and without the agreement of the other but not in a way which is incompatible with the order ( s2(7) ( 8 ) ) . |
10 | Consequently , a private company which has 10 months in which to file its accounts , and has an accounting reference date of 30 September , must file its accounts at Companies House on 30 July at the latest and not on 31 July . |
11 | To ask a child to get dressed is a reasonable requirement of a seven-year-old but not of a two-year-old . |
12 | They may be summarised as follows : if it appears that facts existed from which a constable could reasonably have anticipated a breach of the peace , as a real and not as a remote possibility , and the constable did in fact anticipate such a breach , he is under a duty to take steps ( whether by arrest or otherwise ) as he reasonably thinks are necessary to prevent the breach of the peace from occurring or , as it may be , from continuing . |
13 | If the memory of the association of a given flavour with illness can be taken to be more important than the memory that the flavour has also been experienced without harmful consequences , then the latter memory would interfere after a short but not after a long retention interval . |
14 | Although the largest of the 11 suits called for the immediate repayment of $1,200 million , bankers were reported on March 13 to be viewing the move as a defensive and not as a provocative act . |
15 | Constitutionally disinclined to surrender preferment , being , as he once observed , ‘ of a modest if not of a retiring disposition ’ , he remained librarian until 1952 . |
16 | Vision plays a necessary but not at all exclusive role in the attribution of the perceptual words and their belief corollaries . |
17 | He added that he would be speaking only as an individual and not as a representative of the Chief Police Officers Association . |
18 | Rushdie may not project an image immediately attractive to everyone , but that principle stands as an absolute or not at all . |
19 | Structuralism is revolutionary because it can be adopted only as an alternative and not as an addition to traditional academic habits . |