Example sentences of "not [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The siphuncle in most ammonoids runs not through the middle of the whorl but along the outer edge . |
| 2 | Many of the more intractable problems involved with merger of solicitors ' firms will be within the province of the accountancy profession : and the best advice as to how to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable will be obtained not through the pages of any book but from a fellow professional who has actually and successfully observed the process at first hand . |
| 3 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 4 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 5 | I walked along , trembling with anger and misery , not through the London of beautiful houses and clean streets that I 'd dreamed of , where people wore only elegant , expensive clothes , nor between buildings that soared into the clouds , but in the darkness past trees planted at infrequent intervals and council houses with their unlit windows , all alike ; I passed people asleep , protected from the cold in cardboard boxes , and rubbish in untidy heaps or neatly tied up in black plastic bags and empty milk bottles with traces of sour milk lingering in them , and I marvelled once again that the dairies were trusting enough to leave them lying about . |
| 6 | Expectation is generated not through the effervescence of the enthusiasts , but through the intercession of the people of God . |
| 7 | This Act set out to enlarge the range of civil remedies for wrongful acts done in contemplation or furtherance of ‘ industrial disputes , ’ but through the new statutory concept of unfair industrial practices , not through the law of tort . |
| 8 | Like Sartre , he sought to constitute Marxism as a form of truth , but attempted to prove its truth not through the dialectic of history but rather as a science , authenticating Marx 's ‘ immense theoretical revolution ’ epistemologically through a demonstration of its scientificity . |
| 9 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 10 | Thus we might , in the case of names , allow a representation like : The explicit omission of round brackets conveys the claim that the name identifies some entity directly , not through the mention of some properties . |
| 11 | Their relation to the totality emerges not through the form of synecdoche — the typical detail which can then be generalized as metaphor — but should , according to Lukács , be drawn out through the narrative which inscribes and extends a connection between such moments of empirical reality and the general laws of history as a totality . |
| 12 | Djaballah said on Nov. 27 that " the Islamic state would be established by all the potential existing in Algeria , and not through the potential of one single party " . |
| 13 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
| 14 | He argued that the incident must be looked at , not through the eyes of the reviewing court , but through the eyes of a reasonable man . |
| 15 | The editor will know that , and the editor will be sensitive to the readership , and the editor will look at it , not through the eyes of an editor just as an individual , but will say , ‘ Putting myself in the , in the position of my readers , would they want to read this ? ’ |
| 16 | Otherwise you could be changing status now only to change back again very shortly and it is not worth the upheaval for what would only be a marginal difference . ’ |
| 17 | Believing revanche to be either unrealizable , or not worth the price to be paid , it looked to colonies , social progress and economic expansion for French achievement . |
| 18 | Thin foil wrappers , for example , contain so little material that it 's not worth the cost of recycling . |
| 19 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 20 | The economic gain from foreign contracts is not worth the risk to national property . |
| 21 | It had not taken long for her to realise that it was not worth the risk of her position and Stephen 's love . |
| 22 | Chief Trading Standards Officer Ken Wardale said : ‘ Our local traders have got the message that selling fireworks to young children is not worth the risk of prosecution . |
| 23 | You just get it anywhere it 's not worth the sort of on it . |
| 24 | Water resistance : little resistance to persistent rain but the fabric dries out so quickly after shows that it 's often not worth the bother of getting out your overtrousers . |
| 25 | Unbelievable , I mean I 've always looked upon the horse as a nice horse not as the winner of an Arkle . |
| 26 | The Agreement shall not apply to any claim brought against an occupier of land if the mud is deposited either by vehicles other than his own , or jointly by such vehicles and his own vehicles , and his Insurers grant indemnity to him in his particular capacity as an occupier of land and not as the user of the vehicles . |
| 27 | Taxes Act 1988 , s683 provides that where income under a settlement is payable to or applicable for the benefit of any person other than the settlor then unless the situation comes within one of the following five situations ( listed in TA 1988 , s683(1) ) the income shall for the purposes of " excess liability " be treated as the income of the settlor and not as the income of any other person for tax purposes . |
| 28 | Literary meaning must therefore be analyzed in its own terms , in the words of the Thèses ( Vachek 1966:49 ) as a ‘ semantic composition ’ , and not as the reflection of external factors . |
| 29 | Moreover this , exercise is intended as an illustration and not as the presentation of a detailed proposal for a capital sharing tax . |
| 30 | But men in Scotland could look to the monarchy as the focal point and representative of their aspirations , not as the frustrator of them . |