Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those four orientations , listed not in the order provided by Dahl but in the order I believe to be most significant to an understanding to British political culture , are toward ( 1 ) problem-solving , ( 2 ) the political system , ( 3 ) cooperation and individuality , and ( 4 ) other people . |
| 2 | This is principally indexed to the claimed historical transformation of Modernism into a series of engaged avant-gardes dedicated not to the aestheticisation of life , but to the integration of art into life . |
| 3 | The knowledge that this is what occurs comes primarily from stability theory — applied not to the rest configuration as in Section 22.2 , but to the various possible convective structures . |
| 4 | And the television cameras will be there to record the forum , manned not by the BBC , but by staff from the University 's own TV service . |
| 5 | Thus Turner has written that the sporadic appearance of trade unionism arose not from the absence of collective association but from the " intermittence " of the actual need for collective action " . |
| 6 | The Jacobite cause fell and the indecisive Prince with it , but there were those who fought not for the Stuarts , but for their country . |
| 7 | He sought mandamus directed not to the visitor but to the provost and fellows to reinstate him on the grounds that the provost and fellows had breached the rules of natural justice . |
| 8 | This is medicine practised not for the benefit of the patient but to protect the doctor from litigation . |
| 9 | In 1917 he could refer Garvin to a speech made in 1905 where he stated his ideal for the British Empire : ‘ we think of a group of states , all independent in their own local concerns , but all united for the defence of their common interests and the defence of a common civilisation , united not in an alliance — for alliances can be made and unmade — but in a permanent organic union' . |
| 10 | Deane is n't a bad player , at sheffield however he did score in bursts rather than every other game he also played not as a goalscorer but someone to play flicks etc . |
| 11 | ‘ He came not as a senator , ’ said Mr Donlan , on BBC Radio 4 's Today programme . |
| 12 | Most of the provisions of the Housing Act 1988 relating to private sector renting apply equally to housing associations , but the most important change relating to housing associations came not in the Act but by ministerial decision . |
| 13 | The greatest single expenditure on a Nonconformist chapel came not from the Congregationalists but from the Baptists and not in England but in Scotland . |
| 14 | In many ways the stimulus for this came not from the miners but from the wool and worsted textile workers who fought against further wage reductions in 1925 . |
| 15 | All the judges emphasized that the danger of disorder came not from the CND marchers but rather from the fact that ‘ [ h ] ooligans and others might attack the police who were doing their duty in escorting a peaceful procession ’ ( Lord Denning ) . |
| 16 | As it turned out the problem came not from the Opposition but from our own side . |
| 17 | The calls came not from the opposition RPR-UDF coalitions , but from separatist groups . |
| 18 | Whatever authority it had , came not from the power of the speaker — he had none in the conventional sense — but from the cogency and relevance of what he said and the hope it inspired . |
| 19 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 20 | To Folly 's surprise , the voice came not from the stranger , but from somewhere behind and above her . |
| 21 | The initial impetus for the rethink came not from the officials but from Sir Stafford Cripps in the summer of 1946 . |
| 22 | The wood for the hedge arrived not on the backs of the hedge-builders but in the boot of their Ford Cortina . |
| 23 | Elvis 's huge ballad repertoire needs little commentary here , save to stress that it began not with the move to RCA but at Sun , ‘ Love Me Tender ’ ( 1956 ) and ‘ That 's When Your Heartaches Begin' ( 1957 ) being preceded by equally sentimental ballads cut for Sam Phillips ; indeed , it began earlier — when , as a boy , Elvis was entered for a talent contest at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair , it was the sentimental country and western number ‘ Old Shep ’ that he sang . |
| 24 | As well as making claims about the efficiency of markets , the theory denies the existence of producer power , at the same time drawing a reassuring analogy with democratic control in the political sphere : corporate behaviour is no more than a reflection of the popular will , expressed not through the ballot box , but via individual purchase decisions . |
| 25 | When it came to the actual recording , there was the sound of the pistol shot — followed not by the thump but by Ken wailing as only Kenneth Williams could wail . |
| 26 | The success of Morrison 's project derived not from the cementing of working-class allegiance to Labour through the unions , but in filling the political vacuum created by the downturn of political and industrial militancy in the immediate postwar period . |
| 27 | Power had grown absolute and derived not from the people , but from God . |
| 28 | Stewart 's Nature critique focused not on an analysis of Ungar 's behavioural claims , but on the chemical purity and composition of the presumed scotophobin . |
| 29 | That is , a revolution from above , a revolution guided not by the ambition of the bulk of the population , but by the interests of the landed aristocracy and the military . |
| 30 | Darwin introduced a new element into the equation because he started not from the fossil record but from field studies , which forced him to consider the real-life pressures acting upon species in the course of geological time . |