Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That there was no such party this year was not through lack of determination on Cranmer 's part . |
| 2 | That is not through lack of support by this Government , who have put £17 billion into the coal industry since 1979 . |
| 3 | Had been told that the Prince , his son , had not visited his new wife 's bed for several days , and not through pressure of work . |
| 4 | Now if those , erm , wages in the civil service are set , not through sort of market process , but sort of through institutional er , constraints , you know , it 's unlikely there 's going to be sort of er , union power erm , in these sorts of jobs , but nevertheless , civil servants tend to do quite well at giving themselves pay increases |
| 5 | In the course of his visit , his first to Portugal since 1975 ( when Angola 's independence agreement was signed — see pp. 26973-75 ) , Savimbi held discussions with President Soares and with Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaço Silva — the latter in his capacity as leader of Portugal 's ruling Social Democratic Party and not as head of government . |
| 6 | That he knew his position to be unassailable was reflected in the fact that he immediately began to refer to himself not as Head of Government , but as Head of State . |
| 7 | The glass not as addition to room , he wrote , but as subtraction from room . |
| 8 | He thus suggested that ideas should be viewed not as mirrors of reality but plans of action . |
| 9 | An impression is provided by Fuller : " I am sorry to hear and loath to believe , what some credible persons have told me , that within these 20 years the copper within this country hath beet , wholly discontinued , and that not for want of metal , but mining it . |
| 10 | This position as ‘ also attending ’ in the daily panoply of style was not for want of effort : ‘ the Dedicated Follower of Fashion ’ was no sartorial doormat ; but it was acceptable and expected that the female , complete with which ever secondary sexual characteristic was currently ‘ in ’ , should be the object of absolute scrutiny . |
| 11 | But it was not for want of feeling or … principles . ’ |
| 12 | It is not for want of encouragement . |
| 13 | It was not for lack of space . |
| 14 | More realistically , the papal Curia thought that when the full ideal was unattainable , it was better to be content with what could be salvaged than to be left empty-handed : the precise opposite of Anselm , who ( as he told Queen Matilda ) would as soon be deprived of everything as of a little — ‘ and I say this not for love of property , but for love of God 's justice ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ A double agent can be tripled ’ — or , presumably by the same token , quadrupled or quintupled — since he does n't necessarily know where one stage ends and the next begins , particularly in the case of a Russian who has left the pre-Glasnost USSR not for reasons of ideology , but for the chance to work out his physical theories on an up-to-date computer . |
| 16 | The Act Two ball dress , the emerald gown with the huge stiffened collar embroidered with pearls , looked even better than the Act One dress and she realized that , without knowing quite how , she had quelled Gesner — not for reasons of rivalry but because she had had to get the production back on course . |
| 17 | They subscribe to it not for reasons of caprice , but because eminent judicial authority has reiterated the notion over the years . |
| 18 | Another way in which the new narrative extends the range of traditional realism is by re-creating modes of spoken speech , not for reasons of costumbrism or authenticity , but to portray a society through the way in which it expresses itself orally . |
| 19 | That is a matter for the Administration Committee , not for discussion in connection with the order . |
| 20 | Mr Vecchiotti is looking not for masses of assembly-line workers , but for a few skilled and adaptable engineers . |
| 21 | ( It is important to remember that the purpose of these records is for internal progress checking , not for circulation to Area Managers or whoever . |
| 22 | Since we are satisfied that by the operation of the Judicature Act 1873 and its successor statutes High Court judges are sitting as the High Court when they exercise their jurisdiction as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary matters , there is nothing in Lord Diplock 's speech in that case which derogates from the proposition that they are not susceptible to judicial review , which is available , as Lord Diplock said , at p. 384 , as a remedy for mistakes of law made by inferior courts and tribunals only , and not for mistakes of law made by the High Court itself . |
| 23 | The solution arrived at was to compensate only ‘ for loss of development value which accrued in the past up to the point where the 1947 axe fell — but not for loss of development value accruing in the future ’ . |
| 24 | In paragraph 16 they point out that the defects stem from regarding larceny as a violation of possession and not of rights of ownership , with the offence depending on a taking of the property . |
| 25 | Socialists and feminists oppose this move , not only because it enables landlords to evict tenants easily and raise rents , but because they recognise that the demise of this sector is , broadly speaking , a result of the decreasing profitability of investment in this sector ( Merrett , 1979 , p.281 ) , not of legislation concerning rent control and tenants ' rights . |
| 26 | and , and that really would lead to the of self not of detriment of self |
| 27 | Nevertheless , this is not of importance in relation to our present consideration . |
| 28 | In every case the farmer reporting evidence said he was not against badgers in principle , but wanted either adequate compensation for the damage they did or someone to control them , because they had no natural predators . |
| 29 | He tried to swim , to claw at the wall but he could not ; not against years of shit , clinging slime — he might easier have climbed a glacier — get a grip , and still no one ; no reaching hand to help him . |
| 30 | On this damp cold ground , the grass is not like grass in picture books : it is town grass-tufty , unkempt , in patches of mud . |