Example sentences of "and not [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Managers of trust hospitals will be judged on their ability to manage and not as apparatchiks of a political dogma . |
| 2 | In the course of his visit , his first to Portugal since 1975 ( when Angola 's independence agreement was signed — see pp. 26973-75 ) , Savimbi held discussions with President Soares and with Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaço Silva — the latter in his capacity as leader of Portugal 's ruling Social Democratic Party and not as head of government . |
| 3 | On the other hand the counsellor may be assisted by many physical signs which suggest that alcohol is a problem , such as finding lots of empty bottles around , or when an older person is found to be drinking at all times of the day , often alone and not as part of a social occasion . |
| 4 | It is submitted that this approach is wrong and that it would be better to consider the database structure as a form of expression in its own right and not as part of the computer program . |
| 5 | Yet these , finally , have to be set down as complications of the market process , and not as factors which override it . |
| 6 | Six political parties , which with other interest groups had elected the Sawyer interim government , saw the Banjul agreement as continuing the reconstitution of Liberia 's government under ECOWAS auspices , and not as endorsement of another interim administration . |
| 7 | Generally speaking a shareholding director can vote in his own interests without regard to those of the company ; he is acting in the capacity of shareholder and not as director . |
| 8 | Please note the deposit quoted is per apartment and not per person , and is refundable less the cost of any damage or loss . |
| 9 | He is ready , he says , to consider Syria 's ‘ vital interests ’ in Lebanon , and by that he appears to mean that its army could stay in the Beka'a Valley , provided it is clearly intended for defence against Israeli attack and not for interference in Lebanon 's internal affairs . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 10.1 The Proprietor shall receive on publication six copies of all components of the Work and one copy of any revised or corrected impression all free of charge and shall be entitled to purchase at two-thirds of the United Kingdom published price any further copies of the Work required for the Proprietor 's personal use and not for resale . |
| 12 | 10.1 The Company shall receive on publication six copies of the printed Work and six copies of the video Work ( in the format and standard of the Company 's choice ) and one copy of any revised or corrected impression all free of charge and shall be entitled to purchase at two-thirds of the United Kingdom published price any further copies of the Work required for the Authors ' personal use and not for resale . |
| 13 | The scope for the voluntary sector and not for profit activity in the nineteen nineties is immense , it will not be expansion just for its own sake , but principled entrepreneurial activity aimed to make the most of opportunities on behalf of the community . |
| 14 | But bear in mind that interest rate hedging should not be undertaken lightly by the inexperienced , and then only to hedge an underlying cash position and not for speculation |
| 15 | Some activities are good for one or two of the three S's and not for others , but different ones can be combined to give the best overall results . |
| 16 | The estimated hazard may increase with duration for some individuals and not for others in the sample , depending on their data . |
| 17 | Whatever the price happens to be at a given time , and this can vary dramatically , it will be a price worth paying for some and not for others . |
| 18 | ‘ Karim , you have been cast for authenticity and not for experience . ’ |
| 19 | The sickle is one of the oldest surviving implements in farming , and is still used in Suffolk — in the Bures district — but for harvesting thyme for seed and not for corn . |
| 20 | The other track is to be preferred , leading directly to the corrie and the most exciting aspect of the mountain , but the way is very rough and not for feet in sandals . |
| 21 | We hear of the sexual revolution which is supposed to have happened sometime in the 1960s and liberated women from the constraints of Victorian ideology with its oppressive double standard in which non-marital sex is alright for men and not for women . |
| 22 | Microsoft also now plans a new version of MS-DOS for early next year that will lack most of the features that had been expected in the MS-DOS 6.0 release , such as multi-tasking , and the company will now offer its object-oriented Cairo environment only for NT , and not for MS-DOS . |
| 23 | ‘ And not for ages yet . |
| 24 | We ca n't hurt her — humiliate her like this when she 's expecting to marry him in just a few weeks , even if it has been arranged for family reasons , and not for love . |
| 25 | The informant is responsible in law ( unless the information was provided solely for the journalist 's background reference and not for use even on an unattributed basis ) but the media , having promised confidentiality , will be under an ethical duty not to reveal the name of its informant . |
| 26 | The more autonomous a field is , the greater the extent to which production in that field is only for other producers and not for consumers in the social field ( or field of power ) . |
| 27 | As with the Region data is available for the administrative county and not for Tyne side . |
| 28 | Critics claim the technology is 1980s passe and not for Unix and that it would take a tremendous amount of engineering to make it suitable for modern enterprise-wide client/server applications that demand object-oriented solutions . |
| 29 | As its origins suggest , UDC was designed for detailed indexing of documents and not for shelf arrangement . |
| 30 | People are very used to watching television for entertainment and not for information . |