Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | McAllister really did think that she was going to faint this time , not through shock or disgust , but sheer physical exhaustion , except that the will which her family deplored kept her on her feet . |
| 2 | We accept the general proposition that people should rise to the top as far as possible through their talents and skills , not through wealth or influence or inheritance . |
| 3 | But it is important to remember that there were those colleagues who expressed their hostility not through obstruction or outright opposition , but through silence . |
| 4 | The history of Western Marxism amounts to a history of attempts to provide a means for transcending the condition of alienation and achieving that lost totality , not through irony or a reified homogeneous temporality , as in Lukács ' novel , but , according to his formulation of Marxism , through history and class consciousness . |
| 5 | The thrust of these discursive creations is control ; control not through denial or prohibition , but through ‘ production ’ , through imposing a grid of definition on the possibilities of the body . |
| 6 | ‘ Work in progress ’ is primarily ‘ graphique , ’ not ‘ por daguerre ’ : it is writing , writing for itself , not as daguerrotype or any other semi-photographic attempt to represent reality . |
| 7 | It 's not about hair or women being shameful , it 's about respect , about being sacred . |
| 8 | Success is not about money or position — it is about personal satisfaction and self-esteem . |
| 9 | The Secretary of State talked about cost , economy , efficiency and effectiveness but not about quality or service . |
| 10 | It 's not about violence or brutal police officers and I say that because for the last few years there 's been an awful lot of publicity about the particularly in the Metropolitan area and I ask you you will have read some terrible things about certain police officers . |
| 11 | ‘ This is not about beauty or trying to appear younger , ’ says the artist whose first name is Mireille but wants to be known only as Orlan . |
| 12 | Responsibility is not about duty or guilt . |
| 13 | I wonder whether eventually admissions will be possible only during working hours but not during lunch or coffee breaks . |
| 14 | Apparently it was all right to receive money from the Treasury in neat health authority allocations , but not for cheques or , worse still , cash to appear over the hospital counter . |
| 15 | It is not for Jan or I to welcome people to the Community , although we do everything else . |
| 16 | This was the English passion , not for self-improvement or culture or wit , but for DIY , Do It Yourself , for bigger and better houses with more mod cons , the painstaking accumulation of comfort and , with it , status — the concrete display of earned cash . |
| 17 | because the cry of the Soviets was at the time , in nineteen seventeen , the cry of the Soviets was not for communism or socialism but their cry , and they had it inscribed on their banners , peace land and bread , that 's what they had there , peace , land and bread , not communism . |
| 18 | Not for graphics or depth of gameplay , as the crude design did n't include either of these . |
| 19 | He clasped Joanne in his arms , not for love or lust , just sheer joy at being alive . |
| 20 | And you still ca n't get a good daily woman now to clean , not for love or money . |
| 21 | Fighting is always a last resort , because the result is never certain ; and if we do fight , we have a responsibility to use our knowledge only to get us out of trouble — not for revenge or retribution . |
| 22 | Not to play with the twins , not for solace or scraps or to complain about the social security man , but simply to be a nuisance since being a nuisance was his way : to say again that he was the child of Miss Lavant . |
| 23 | ‘ Bedrooms should be reserved for sleeping and not for work or an office or watching TV , ’ said Dr George Beaumont , an expert in sleeping disorders . |
| 24 | He found it in the fact that the State , ‘ united for once in spirit ’ and ‘ with the fervent consent of the people of every land subject to the rule of our King ’ had entered on an arduous conflict , not for territory or glory but ‘ for the sake of enforcing the plainest rules of international justice and the plainest dictates of common humanity ’ . |
| 25 | He fought not for honour or glory but to put an end to the threat of Naggaroth for all time . |
| 26 | Health services exist for the benefit of patients , not doctors ; schools and colleges are for students , not for teachers or administrators . |
| 27 | Another , equally ingenious , theory sees the black and white coats as a display , not for predators or for fellow zebras but instead for insect pests . |
| 28 | the monarchy are non political and therefore , when they choose to speak it 's usually out of a genuine concern for that problem , it 's not for popularity or personal gain because they are there already and , I think that is quite important when po politicians tend to do good it 's usually to get votes . |
| 29 | The shares have been soaring on hopes that the rate rises would go through , and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp is likely to get some of the local rate increases it is seeking , Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Junichiro Koizumi told Reuters : the company wants to raise rates across the board , but the hikes are likely to be granted only for pay telephones , not for households or businesses . |
| 30 | Not for sale or anything is it ? |