Example sentences of "not [prep] [art] [adj] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commissioned by Chapman & Hall , not as a novel but as the letterpress for a series of comic designs by Robert Seymour , 4 of which were to appear each month , about a club of sporting characters ; at that date novels were not published in monthly parts , a form commonly used for illustrated works . |
| 2 | It is tempting to think of Rolle not as a mystic but as a charismatic or pentecostal Christian . |
| 3 | He did so immediately — and found himself appointed not as an assistant but as the Irish Press 's first Belfast staffman . |
| 4 | ( To clear up a myth once and for all , rhino horn is in demand not as an aphrodisiac but for its supposed fever-reducing qualities . |
| 5 | It 's not for the faint-hearted but , if you 're prepared to put your hair in Wella 's hands , we 're sure you wo n't be disappointed . |
| 6 | Then , not of a sudden but slowly , there crept through his being the most odd feeling : his stomach began to tremble , as if his bowels had become loose in their casing . |
| 7 | The downtown antique shops which clustered in the streets off the Marktplatz sold the bric-a-brac , not of the nineteenth but of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries . |
| 8 | In the early seventies the court ( and the bazaar ) buzzed with stories that the Shah had fallen in love , not with a European but with a nineteen-year-old Iranian girl with dyed blond hair . |
| 9 | When the Newcastle goalkeeper rose to his feet after treatment , Mr Jones chose to re-start play not with a free-kick but with a drop-ball inside the penalty area . |
| 10 | The survival value of this act lies not with the individual but with its hive community . |
| 11 | The deal he seeks to make at Maastricht is not with the Twelve but with the 1922 Committee . |
| 12 | The Harlequin man pursed his lips and sucked in his cheeks not in a cadaverous but in a speculative , mischievous style which nevertheless bespoke some fatal intent . |
| 13 | Changes in behavioural responses occur not in an individual but over many generations as a consequence of evolution . |
| 14 | She may have to find her young not from a dozen but from a million . |
| 15 | What we owned we stole and filched , not from the poor but the merchants , the lawyers , the fat and the rich . |
| 16 | The manager and the subordinate jointly review performance focusing not on the individual but the latter 's work situation . |
| 17 | If there is such a thing as a simulation in the same relation to suffering as imagination to perception , it is in response not to a real but to a fictitious situation ; it is the emotion of the actor revelling in the part of a tragic hero . |
| 18 | The cult of self-help , usually visited upon the poor , actually belongs not to the poor but to participants in society , the respectable , self-helping , self-respecting institutions of organised communities and classes . |
| 19 | That Alex Wyllie , the grizzled New Zealand coach , regards this as the All Blacks ' most important tour since the Cup is a tribute not to the Welsh but to the necessity of bringing through the next generation of players . |
| 20 | Also , for most communities infant mortality was reported to be lowest not at the second but at the third — in some communities even at the fourth — order . |
| 21 | His own officials meanwhile conducted a further loyalty check on government employees , and Vice-President Nixon boasted " We " re kicking the Communists and fellow travellers … out of the government not by the hundred but by the thousands . " |
| 22 | Direction is determined not by an objective but by the nature of the organisation and the field in which it operates . |