Example sentences of "not [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to this view you can reach for security through self-help — individual action , or action in small groups of like-minded people — but not through reliance on big bureaucracies . |
| 2 | That is not to say that Parliament does not have a significant influence on the pattern of public expenditure , but it is exercised in various indirect ways at the formative stage of determining the pattern of public expenditure , and not through variations in the government 's proposals once they have been laid before the House . |
| 3 | Political power was to be secured through the commonsensical and practical consolidation of union power at the workplace , and the use of the ballot , not through pursuit of transient revolutionary ideals imported from other countries . |
| 4 | Most reports fail not through lack of facts but because they contain too many . |
| 5 | That there was no such party this year was not through lack of determination on Cranmer 's part . |
| 6 | That is not through lack of support by this Government , who have put £17 billion into the coal industry since 1979 . |
| 7 | While it is true that no major changes have been made to the constitution , this is not through want of trying . |
| 8 | Had been told that the Prince , his son , had not visited his new wife 's bed for several days , and not through pressure of work . |
| 9 | Gagnon and Simon have been less historically specific , but both interactionists and Foucault tend to the view that sexual behaviour is organised not through mechanisms of ‘ repression ’ but through powers of ‘ incitement ’ , definition and regulation . |
| 10 | Now if those , erm , wages in the civil service are set , not through sort of market process , but sort of through institutional er , constraints , you know , it 's unlikely there 's going to be sort of er , union power erm , in these sorts of jobs , but nevertheless , civil servants tend to do quite well at giving themselves pay increases |
| 11 | With regard to the rest of the local ornithology around Yarrundi he was more confident , and in his instructions to Gilbert written on 20 January 1842 , he stipulated , ‘ The Brushes are not worth hunting for the birds . ’ |
| 12 | Not as part of his enquiry , or on behalf of Hamnett , or his country , but for himself . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The ‘ fatal ’ choices offered to parents and teachers at every stage of the child 's schooling can thus be examined in the light of development , not as part of a race against failure . |
| 15 | Industrial battles of this sort were almost an everyday event in Griffith 's America but here the bloody scenes are staged not as part of a labour or management film but as part of a vast , elaborate , confused , perhaps ultimately nonsensical and certainly eccentric plea for tolerance . |
| 16 | The Company sold guns to the Indians , but not as part of a process of political disturbance like that caused by the slave trade in West Africa ; Indian hunters quite soon preferred guns to bows and arrows for hunting , and hunting was the basis for the Hudson Bay trade . |
| 17 | France now offered Germany a road to the future not as part of a German-Soviet alliance or as an American bastion in Europe , but as part of a European entity . |
| 18 | Thucydides narrates the events of the next decade not as part of the ‘ Fifty Years ’ , to which they strictly belong , but as part of the sequence of events which immediately caused the great Peloponnesian War . |
| 19 | Nizan 's refusal to empathise fully with his fictional characters was consequently envisaged not as part of a global strategy to adapt the novel to the demands of contemporary social experience , but rather as the ideological inability of a communist novelist to engage in a complicity judged by Sartre to be a fundamental aspect of the novelist 's art . |
| 20 | Other expressions in the contract ( such as ‘ fair average quality for the season ’ or ‘ packed in cases of 30 ’ ) can then be regarded , not as part of the contract description , but as express terms of the contract in their own right . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But , written in an informal format , not as part of the formal series , the credentials of such mail messages would rely heavily on their context and supporting data . |
| 23 | Lalonde said his party sought a place in government at the start of an administration , not as part of a " breathless " government , as he described the current Parti Socialiste administration . |
| 24 | Note that where assets are acquired not as part of a TOGC and VAT is payable , the VAT liability may be treated as capital expenditure for the purpose of writing down allowances for plant and machinery . |
| 25 | If X died leaving an estate of £1,150,000 and under the variation £150,000 went to the children and £1M to the widow and subsequently ( not as part of a preordained scheme ) the £1M was transferred to the children and the widow survived the normal seven years , no inheritance tax would be payable . |
| 26 | Secondly there are things which would have occurred , if he had not acted thus , but not as consequences of some alternative action of his . |
| 27 | In order to make the most efficient use of space and to preserve accuracy , numerics are stored in a data file in binary format , not as strings of characters . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That he knew his position to be unassailable was reflected in the fact that he immediately began to refer to himself not as Head of Government , but as Head of State . |
| 30 | Managers of trust hospitals will be judged on their ability to manage and not as apparatchiks of a political dogma . |