Example sentences of "not [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To cover costs for the first £320 you may either pay us a non-refundable damage/loss excess waiver of £32 per yacht ( £7 each for a Share a Yacht or Pot Luck ) , or lodge ( direct with us , not through a travel agent ) a security deposit of £320 per yacht ( £70 each if sharing ) at the time of making your final payment . |
| 2 | NatWest put in £250,000 but not through the Money Advice Trust . ’ |
| 3 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 4 | In his last public statement as Home Secretary , he announced : ‘ Once again the terrorists have tried to make their point through violence and not through the ballot box . ’ |
| 5 | As well as making claims about the efficiency of markets , the theory denies the existence of producer power , at the same time drawing a reassuring analogy with democratic control in the political sphere : corporate behaviour is no more than a reflection of the popular will , expressed not through the ballot box , but via individual purchase decisions . |
| 6 | Not worth the licence fee as Derek says . |
| 7 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 8 | ’ Becke 's revision reads : ‘ He dwelleth wyth his wyfe accordinge to knowledge , that taketh her as a necessarye healper , and not as a bonde servaunte or a bonde slave . |
| 9 | We ask this not as a government minister might , faced with the seemingly interminable demands of research scientists for more and more funds , but to try to see what relationship research bears to knowledge . |
| 10 | The conventional sociological approach to housework could be termed ‘ sexist ’ : it has treated housework merely as an aspect of the feminine role in the family — as a part of women 's role in marriage , or as a dimension of child-rearing — not as a work role . |
| 11 | Yet there are many other versions and more which approach what C.P.E. Bach described as his father 's ‘ complete practical fugal work ’ not as a keyboard piece but as chamber music . |
| 12 | My grandfather built the village in 1895 — not as a company town . |
| 13 | Having said that , I would not as a film producer be here today without sums of money like the Eady levy [ a tax on cinema seats ] . |
| 14 | I want to be known for my driving , not as a society man or a lover or God knows what . ’ |
| 15 | However Derek Hyde 's vision of the tramway was not as a museum line , but as a forward-looking system of transportation in the field of light rail , the virtues of which were again being recognised . |
| 16 | However , on Dec. 17 he resigned as Minister without Portfolio in Kohl 's Cabinet and as deputy leader of the CDU ( although not as a Bundestag member ) . |
| 17 | The Italian thinks that if he can ever sing Puccini the climax of his life has been reached ; but even so , with all the omissions that can be charged against Italy — such that as a musical country she ceased to exist after the seventeenth century and has certainly reached deliquescence with Messrs Malpiero , Pratella and Co — she even now does produce from time to time singers who are not merely singers but great artists , as Battistini who , at over 60 , is an example for those who can take it of the extent to which a voice can be preserved in all its beauty when it is used as a musical instrument and not as a fog siren or a pair of nutcrackers . ’ |
| 18 | As a human being , and not as a guinea pig . |
| 19 | He had found that the Ford Granada Estate which he had bought second-hand in September for £4,000 was being used exclusively for collecting and delivering goods for Transom Trading and not as a family car as originally intended . |
| 20 | It is enough to say here that slag should be used sparingly as a soil conditioner from time to time , and not as a routine crop food . |
| 21 | How do we ensure that management is seen as a set of empowering activities and not as a control activity ? |
| 22 | Er well , not as a Fire Brigade as , as , as individuals I suppose , we , we took the risk of , of paying for these instruments and |
| 23 | For example , we can specify the constraints on /a/ before velars in inner-city Belfast by stating that it can be realized as a mid-front , low mid-front , or low-front vowel , but not as a low-back vowel . |
| 24 | Working with steel , not as a picture-making element , but as a building material in terms of mass , weight , counterbalance , loadbearing capacity , point load , compression , friction and statics , has been totally divorced from the history of sculpture . |
| 25 | ‘ Module-details ’ has to be defined as a set of atomic attributes , not as a group item , thus it has to be broken down into its constituents of ‘ module-name ’ , ‘ status ’ and ‘ unit-points ’ : |
| 26 | Echoing the sentiments of Slam , Gypsy 's Graham Drinnon is keen to emphasise that the Limbo lot ‘ like to see ourselves as British musicians making British music , and certainly not as a Glasgow thing … |
| 27 | ‘ When Euston was first built ’ , reported a Victorian commentator in 1896 , ‘ it was regarded not as a railway station but as a spectacle . |
| 28 | The governors saw the museum as a storehouse for the nation 's treasures , not as a research institution , and even public access to the museum was restricted . |
| 29 | It was conceived of by all those who participated in it not as a coalition government as generally understood , but as a temporary , emergency government , formed for a single limited purpose : to balance the budget through drastic economies and increases in taxation . |
| 30 | The Alps were compelling , but only as part of the scenery , not as the winter activity playground they were to become . |