Example sentences of "not [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rarely smiled but this was not through a lack of good nature : her responsibilities had given her a serious expression . |
| 2 | Jesus liberated not through a programme of political activism , but simply through his spoken word . |
| 3 | Althusser shared Sartre 's opposition to Stalinism 's emphasis on economism and technical determinism , dissociating himself from it not through an assertion of individual agency but through a reformulation of the Marxist thesis of determination by economic relations — redefined as a causal rather than a historical relation . |
| 4 | The siphuncle in most ammonoids runs not through the middle of the whorl but along the outer edge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Expectation is generated not through the effervescence of the enthusiasts , but through the intercession of the people of God . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Thin foil wrappers , for example , contain so little material that it 's not worth the cost of recycling . |
| 17 | ( 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 . ) |
| 18 | The economic gain from foreign contracts is not worth the risk to national property . |
| 19 | It had not taken long for her to realise that it was not worth the risk of her position and Stephen 's love . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You just get it anywhere it 's not worth the sort of on it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The firm is able to act within the FSA but unlike traditional lead advisers ( i.e. the merchant banks ) is governed by an Institute and not as a member of the Stock Exchange or Securities and Futures Authority . |
| 24 | Not as a member of the human race , but you matter to God as an individual , as a person with all your strengths , your weaknesses , with all our peculiarities and our points , as individuals , we matter to God ! |
| 25 | A fixed charge may of course be attacked as a preference where it is given to secure past value but not as a transaction at an undervalue since the assets of the company are not diminished by the creation of the charge . |
| 26 | A student of mine who saw the Hollywood film Witness , which featured the Amish community , wondered whether we should think of their way of life not as a residue of the past but the way of the future ! |
| 27 | ‘ But there are powerful arguments for custody , not as a sentence of first resort but certainly as one weapon in the ‘ armoury ’ . |
| 28 | A lecturer normally owns the copyright in any book or article he writes because he is primarily employed as a teacher and not as a writer of books and articles , even though his employer may encourage this . |
| 29 | The octopus has no trace of a shell within the flesh of its body , but one species , the argonaut , secretes from one of its arms a marvellous paper-thin version shaped very like a nautilus shell but without chambers , which it uses not as a home for itself but as a delicate floating chalice in which to lay its eggs . |
| 30 | Can it ever come to life again , not as a bait and hook for politicians to use , not as a shouting for soccer fans ? |