Example sentences of "not as [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we examine God not as protagonist and moral bully but as author of this story , we have to mark him down for plot , motivation , suspense and characterisation . |
| 2 | Wilberforce was not the only representative of Anglican opinion , and even he was not as obscurantist as is sometimes implied . |
| 3 | It 's functional and cheap and takes the work out of mothers ' work — the opposite of the colour supplements ' fascination with food and its production and the backlash against junk food , which present a chic counterculture of cooking not as work but as leisure and pleasure . |
| 4 | Suicide pact killings are retained ( cl. 62 ) , not as manslaughter but as a separate offence , punishable with a maximum of seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 5 | It is for the tribunal which decides the case to consider , not as law but as fact , whether in the whole circumstances the words of the statute do or do not as a matter of ordinary usage of the English language cover or apply to the facts which have been proved . |
| 6 | The big glass and the notes for the big glass , he wrote , not the big glass by itself and the notes by themselves , the big glass and the notes for the big glass , the notes for the big glass and the big glass , he wrote , never the one alone or the other alone , for neither by itself has any meaning , neither by itself will have any force , but always both together , not as text and gloss , not as image and caption , but always as exchange and delay , mirror and reflection . |
| 7 | If a group of carbon atoms are detached from the diamond and allowed to re-crystallise , they will rebond not as diamond but as graphite . |
| 8 | She hunted herself , putting aside all those pictures in which she appeared — not as child but as a grown woman . |
| 9 | Roger sees himself and the unit not as child but as school-centred : |
| 10 | O. valenciennesi rufescens differs from O. valenciennesi Lyman ( Challenger Stn 192 off Kei Is 236 m ) in the following respects : the disk spinelets are not as rugose as those of O. valenciennesi and the adoral shields do not or only just separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate , those of O. valenciennesi are more wing-like and extend to the genital slits . |
| 11 | O. clavigera can easily be distinguished from O. globifera by the following characters : the plates of the dorsal side are thin not as well developed as in O. globifera ; the spinelets of O. clavigera often have an enlarged rugose tip , those of O. globifera are all of one kind , low and rugose , nearly granuliform ; the apical and oral papillae of O. globifera are shorter and not as rugose as those of O. clavigera ; the oral shield is more regularly rhombic in O. globifera than O. clavigera and the tentacles scales of O. globifera are large rounded while those of O. clavigera are small and spine-like . |
| 12 | The military confrontation which represented this world order has to be viewed not as deterrence but as imaginary war . |
| 13 | Eliot 's ‘ word , / Swaddled ’ , with its suggestion of Christ 's ‘ swaddling clothes ’ ( Luke 2 : 12 ) places us firmly within the area of fertility and birth , but Christ in ‘ Gerontion ’ comes not as baby but as frightening beast , associated , like totemic animals , with fertility . |
| 14 | Opposition to democracy is not as moribund as public rhetoric might lead us to suppose . |
| 15 | The meaning of this death had come to him slowly ; not as grief but as nakedness , for this death exposed him . |
| 16 | If , notwithstanding the above provisions , there shall be liability on the part of DW/LD by virtue of this Agreement , or because of the relation hereby established , whether due to negligence or otherwise , such liability is and shall be limited to a sum equal to the payment for the Program which sum shall be paid and received as liquidated damages , and not as penalty and this liability shall be complete and exclusive . |
| 17 | You confirm that you are acting in this matter as principal and not as agent or broker for any other party . |
| 18 | They see themselves not as author and illustrator , with separate roles , but as a partnership of ‘ book-makers ’ , contributing equally to the process . |
| 19 | The big glass and the notes for the big glass , he wrote , not the big glass by itself and the notes by themselves , the big glass and the notes for the big glass , the notes for the big glass and the big glass , he wrote , never the one alone or the other alone , for neither by itself has any meaning , neither by itself will have any force , but always both together , not as text and gloss , not as image and caption , but always as exchange and delay , mirror and reflection . |
| 20 | Because ontology involves an ethico-political violence towards the other , always to some degree seen as a threat , Levinas proposes ethics in its place , substituting a respect for the other for a grasping of it , and a theory of desire not as negation and assimilation but as infinite separation . |