Example sentences of "[vb pp] [not/n't] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best known pheromone is emitted not by an ant but by the female silk moth ( Bombyx mori ) . |
| 2 | The solution was to add a form of the hormone progesterone so that the lining was shed not as a period but as an artificial withdrawal bleed . |
| 3 | Thus , it is argued that where conversion is probable , the debt should be reported not as a liability but as , or near , equity . |
| 4 | Another was for portfolios of firms to be owned not by a pension fund but by a specialist financial or management group : Kohlberg , Kravis , Roberts or Hanson , which buy , break up and set strict financial controls for what remains ; Clayton & Dubilier or Forstmann Little , which exert direct supervision over managers ; Berkshire Hathaway , which is a more remote but patient investor . |
| 5 | Many Shetlanders expressed concern about land being considered not as a resource for production , but as a resource to be treated simply as a kind of nonagricultural commodity i.e. something to be surrendered up from agriculture merely for money . |
| 6 | Plant ecology developed not as a study of the factors affecting the lives and deaths of individual plants and their parts but as a study of the distribution of vegetation types and of particular species . |
| 7 | While it was generally recognized that the new novelists drew a great deal on their eighteenth and nineteenth century predecessors , this was regarded not as a fault but , on the contrary , all the more reason for admitting them as new bearers of the old standard ( Hansford Johnson 1949:235–3 , Wilson 1958:viii ) . |
| 8 | ‘ When Euston was first built ’ , reported a Victorian commentator in 1896 , ‘ it was regarded not as a railway station but as a spectacle . |
| 9 | There is a real risk of it being regarded not as a mate but a meal . |
| 10 | There , despite the identical name of ‘ collective agreements ’ , it is regarded not as an adversary process but rather as a means of ensuring the full cooperation of management and workers in carrying out the economic and social plans and improving the management of undertakings ( ILO , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | When somebody tried to do so , he was treated not like a party politician challenging his leader but like a soldier threatening to desert . |
| 12 | When he prays it is in a voice ‘ humble , treatable and slow ’ ; the congregation 's responses ‘ are to be done not in a huddling , or slobbery fashion , gaping or scratching the head , or spitting in the midst of their answer ’ . |
| 13 | Against this background it is not surprising that the duty to benefit the company should be framed not as a duty to take specific actions or to achieve determinate results , but is instead concerned only with ensuring that the directors act in accordance with proper objectives . |
| 14 | We cross the Blue Ridge Parkway and , just beyond the town of Abingdon , find ourselves travelling on the Trail of the Lonesome Pine itself , which was named not after a Laurel and Hardy song but after the ‘ underground railway ’ route which helped escaping slaves escape before and during the Civil War . |
| 15 | For all its relevance and cleverness , you ca n't get around the fact that this book was written not for a generation but for a media eager to snap up fresh-tasting morsels . |
| 16 | The martyr 's conflict was seen not as a fight against duly constituted authority in government , but against Satan . |
| 17 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 18 | The Glorious Revolution is best seen not as a victory for one party , but as a compromise . |
| 19 | Yet this , too , is often seen not as a value but as an additional reason for not taking the genre seriously . |
| 20 | From their views on the intentional and affective fallacies ( Brooks seems to have agreed entirely with Wimsatt and Beardsley about these ) it follows that this reconciliation of opposites must be seen not as an event in the mind of the author or reader , but as an objective fact about the text 's meaning or structure . |
| 21 | Thus — and this is a critical point — refusal of consent is seen not as an assertion of will , but rather as a symptom of unsoundness of mind . |
| 22 | Thus a gold or purple-leaved shrub is best used not as an alternative to green foliage , but as a specimen highlight whose beauty depends on the contrast with its green neighbours . |
| 23 | Another candidate is the Burgess Shale Echmatocrinus , currently interpreted not as a cnidarian at all , but as an echinoderm , the earliest crinoid : the supposed tube feet are very large and could instead be anthozoan-like tentacles . |
| 24 | That is why , no matter what the last-minute mediators may say , there is a danger that their aim will be interpreted not as an effort to secure Mr Hussein 's compliance with demands that have somehow escaped his attention , but as an attempt to offer him an easy way out . |
| 25 | The New Testament ought to be understood not as a resource for abstract theological thinking , but as a divine drama : the story of the Great Battle . |
| 26 | The dissemination of these views in adult education is based not on a class or race or gender analysis of inequality but on notions of feckless , unconfident , incompetent individuals who , because of learning difficulties or lack of social and life skills , are inadequate in their day-to-day lives . |
| 27 | The Irishman was working another establishment she called at , the Lights of Lisbon , only he was employed not as a waiter but as a pianist in the bar . |
| 28 | It was called not by a pope , nor even a patriarch , but by the Empress Irene . |
| 29 | The very opening theme [ 1 ] , in a matter-of-fact but distinctly pompous B flat major , is Swallow 's own motif , while Grimes is portrayed not by a theme but , as we shall see , by a texture . |
| 30 | By contrast , the films made to exploit the vitality , comic talent and phenomenal singing voice of Grace Fields are at their best when set not against a showbusiness background , but in the midst of depressed working-class communities where Fields stands as a beacon of cheerfulness and hope . |