Example sentences of "not the [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suggests that IBM has been using cash to offer attractive financing to help sell mainframes to generate the revenue growth to cover the cost of its 180,000-strong mainframe-oriented sales and service organisations , and needs to work out how to make the mainframe business the cash cow it should be , focussing on the near $20,000m in sales , general and administrative costs , not the $6,500m for research and development , pointing out that saying it is cutting $1,000m off this , mainly on mainframes , while not making a proportionate cut in costs , is a recipe for disaster . |
| 2 | Defendants are permitted to prove their innocence to the extent of whatever accounts and receipts they may have , but case law has shown that it is impossible to prove that savings from wages are not the fruit of crime , being just money in the bank . |
| 3 | The discovery was strictly in the tradition of Wright 's philosophy of seeking natural defences against infection , though Wright may have grieved because it was made by chance and was not the fruit of logical reasoning . |
| 4 | Because the very act of knowing involved divine grace and illumination , because it was not the fruit of work alone , the subordination was marked indeed . |
| 5 | But the chief matter of Property being now not the Fruit of the Earth , and the Beasts that subsist on it , but the Earth itself ; so that which takes in and carries with it all the rest : I think it is plain , that Property in that too is acquired as the former . |
| 6 | Those are not the statistics of an industry in terminal decline . |
| 7 | And indeed in some cases of conversation , the maintenance of rapport , the sharing of affective territory , the achievement of mutually acceptable states of mind is not the means towards an effective communicative transaction but the very object of the interaction itself . |
| 8 | It is not the means to an end conceived elsewhere : but an ‘ as if ’ , no less substantial than the as if of revolution itself . |
| 9 | But a view of Co-operation which admitted only those who are thus motivated would make it an exceptional and exclusive creed to which could subscribe only those for whom Co-operation was itself the end and not the means to a better life , to one which enhanced what Dahrendorf calls a man 's life chances . |
| 10 | Healing should be its own reward and not the means of converting patients . |
| 11 | It should be noted , however , that the rationale for such an approach relates primarily to the ends and not the means of learning , and is directed at furthering the cause of cultural co-operation in Europe . |
| 12 | In other words , it is the lack of consent that matters , not the means by which this result brought about . |
| 13 | It can not be said often enough that these are not the people at the top of the organization , but those at the bottom . |
| 14 | Success — or apparent success — had gone to the heads of the dissident group , if not the people on the paper . |
| 15 | But I would say to each of your listeners I sure you know people who find a tranquility , a centredness , a source of strength and confidence in their religious faith , they are the representatives of what religion can do , not the Ayatollahs , and not the fanatics , and not the people on television , but the people who spend their lives trying to be good and helpful , and one day they 'll look around and realise that happiness has snuck in the back door when they were n't even looking for it . |
| 16 | Not the people in it , just the house . |
| 17 | There are times when people are in need , and that 's fine , but the problem in this parish is not the people in need not being supplied , the problem is that people are , are simply receiving what they wish to receive and not actually making very much contribution . |
| 18 | Funnily enough it 's not the people like me who usually do get the boot in academic life , it 's the people with real talent who generally have a hard time . ’ |
| 19 | Not the ethics behind your work . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Why should n't the people of Coventry enjoy their football and support a winning team that can finish in the top six at least ? ’ |
| 21 | But wait a moment , are n't the people at Taligent talking about OS/2 and AIX personalities ( that they call ‘ adaptors ’ ) to sit on Taligent ? — on the one hand there is a microkernel with Taligent on top and an OS/2 adaptor . |
| 22 | But wait a moment , are n't the people at Taligent talking about OS/2 and AIX personalities ( that they call ‘ adaptors ’ ) to sit on Taligent ? — on the one hand there is a microkernel with Taligent on top and an OS/2 adaptor . |
| 23 | Could n't the people in these places use more goods if they had the power to purchase them ? |