Example sentences of "not [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NatWest put in £250,000 but not through the Money Advice Trust . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not worth the licence fee as Derek says . |
| 6 | The Alps were compelling , but only as part of the scenery , not as the winter activity playground they were to become . |
| 7 | Their ports and forts in the Spice Islands or the West Indies or the West Coast of Africa were intended as supply bases for shipping and not as the starting point for territorial expansion . |
| 8 | Foreign investors would see us not as the launch pad to Europe but as some backwater . |
| 9 | There was nothing primordial about Italianness , just as there is not about the South Africanness of the ANC . |
| 10 | WH : ‘ Our track ‘ Eastenders ’ is not about the TV show , it 's about … |
| 11 | She said : ‘ Tonight 's vote is not about the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 12 | Two patients with impaired peristalsis and oesophagitis reported a history of symptoms but not during the study period . |
| 13 | ( Note that these figures are for a hypothetical population with the life history given by a , not for the life history as it was while the lines were selected . ) |
| 14 | It is not for the Home Secretary , government or the House to lay down to the courts how many people they send to prison . |
| 15 | Toys were not manufactured during the war , at least not for the home market . |
| 16 | Well it 's erm , it 's not for the conversation content it 's the words . |
| 17 | A Minister for Health , not for the Tobacco Industry |
| 18 | At last there is a Minister for Health , not for the Tobacco Industry ’ . |
| 19 | The poem itself he found ‘ a pompous parade of erudition ’ , and he decided that ‘ were it not for the Laforgue mechanism , Mr Eliot s poetic variations on the theme of a super-refined futility would be increasingly thin and incredibly second rate ’ ( The Freeman , 17 January 1923 ) . |
| 20 | From what has been said above , it will be clear that the Oxford English Dictionary Department would not be what it is , if it were not for the Supplement project lying at the heart of its work . |
| 21 | The Treasury and the US Congress have provided Clinton with some statistical support for this perception , but not for the revenue estimate . |
| 22 | Its overall width is greater than the needs of the twentieth century but it was designed for moving herds of animals , not for the motor car . |
| 23 | It then compares the costs incurred for control samples with those of action sample clients , and finally examines the most important question as far as this project is concerned : whether those who were sustained at home with project support for six or l2 months after their referral to the psychogeriatrician cost more , less , or about the same to keep at home compared with the cost of institutional care ( taking into account the probability of their being in an institution were it not for the project support ) . |
| 24 | Indeed the real significance of the Welfare State report was that it marked the beginning of the end not for the health service but for the CPRS . |
| 25 | Not for the War Museum , where the season of peace and goodwill has found plenty of Rambo-esque revellers prepared to toast each other across tank turrets and artillery guns . |
| 26 | Crocodiles can lose water at a rate of up to half of that of amphibians ( which have a much more permeable skin , and would greatly suffer from desiccation on land were it not for the safety valve of a reduced urine flow , which passes much of its water content back into the body ) . |
| 27 | He did not for the moment notice Auguste . |
| 28 | At present money received in roubles from concerts can be spent on food , hotels , transport , presents , etc. but not for the Dublin-Moscow flight . |
| 29 | It 's not for the planning authority |
| 30 | It would be reasonable to suppose that at this latitude the islands would be frozen in for most — if not all — of the year , and so they would , were it not for the Gulf Stream . |