Example sentences of "a [adj] and not [art] " in BNC.

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1 He saw with pleasure that she looked cold but not frightened ; she was beginning to swim more slowly and for the first time with trust , as if the water were a friendly and not an alien element .
2 It was common ground that the scheme , though set up pursuant to a statutory obligation , was a private and not a public law scheme so that the procedure by way of originating summons rather than judicial review was appropriate .
3 We are , after all , performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis .
4 But this is a political and not an economic choice .
5 Thirdly , the move towards a national curriculum was resisted most strongly by those , mainly teachers and other educationists , who claimed that the nature and scope of the school curriculum was a professional and not a political matter .
6 Andre Beteille argues that the search for a biological basis for social stratification is bound to end in failure since the ‘ identification as well as the gradation of qualities is a cultural and not a natural process ’ .
7 It was an extension of the outdoor relief given by some boards of guardians , but its means test was a personal and not a family one .
8 Here , a constant and not a chance model of anarchic relations via exchange is obligatory … the law of value is merely the law of equilibrium of an anarchic commodity system …
9 When the shoes were changed , I knew that the hound must be a natural and not a supernatural creature .
10 But we interpret it as though it is like ‘ Now I 'm sweating ’ , except that what is reported is a mental and not a bodily process .
11 First of all , it is a thrusting and not a snapping kick .
12 But the rapid and dramatic changes which are taking place in the world today , changes of a hopeful and not a frightening kind , could help to make a long-serving government more vulnerable to the time-for-a-change mentality .
13 The United Kingdom is a unitary and not a federal state , thus if central government is really serious about any policy it will get its way ( Griffith , 1965 ) .
14 That Vic Williams was a voluntary and not a conscripted soldier was irrelevant to the issue of conscientious objection , she added .
15 It was a lengthy and not a little dangerous , chemical process requiring the gas to be cooled through a large tub of water from barrels containing iron filings onto which sulphuric acid had been poured .
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