Example sentences of "not [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | No no , not really , not , not between not between a married couple no . |
2 | However , the very persistence of the demand for relevance and usefulness , the dissatisfaction with whatever is seen as ‘ useless ’ , should lead , as I have suggested , to a more fundamental distinction , not between the useful and the useless , the relevant and the irrelevant , nor between the arts and the sciences , but between the practical and the theoretical . |
3 | All aspects of the influence of photography throughout society will be examined , commerce and industry as much as artistic use of photography and of the divide in photography , be it real or not between the many genres of photography . |
4 | But not between the last two words : |
5 | forty , twenty five watts or less , forty watts nominal the ones I 'm running not through a hundred watt channel , er |
6 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
7 | A popular modern interpretation of liberal ideas argues that private autonomy should be lost not through a special exercise of choice but rather through causing harm , or the risk of causing harm , to others . |
8 | We may be handling a horse and get a feeling that we are in tune with the horse and that it is accepting and even anticipating whatever we want to do : we are in rapport with the horse , and are communicating with the horse but in a way that is not through the other senses . |
9 | He was descended ( though not through the male line ) from the family that had built the ships for the old Fowey Gallants of fourteenth-century fame , whose piratical seamen who had dared disobey the Sovereign by plundering Frenchmen and had had their fleet confiscated and sent to Dartmouth for their pains . |
10 | The variations on this particular theme are pretty well endless : the financial side of a firm 's affairs may , for example , be treated quite separately from administration and its director of finance may report straight back to the partners and not through the managing partner or any management committee . |
11 | It recognises that the newer and better way to govern the law-breaker is not through the expiring system of the cell and the lash , but rather through the mind and the heart ( Bridgwater , 1909 , p. 9 ) . |
12 | Fourth , the cries in Balinese dance seemed to Artaud to have a cosmic power and communicated not through the differentiated and ‘ shadow ’ realm of meaning , but , directly , through impact . |
13 | This exhibition seeks to explore the question of mass-produced , sexual imagery , not through the written word , but through the visual language of the artist . |
14 | All protection is carried out through the power of the ‘ thoughts ’ of individuals , and not through the physical bellicosity of men in groups . |
15 | ‘ Not through the main street ? ’ |
16 | She now believed that her sister had died , if not through the direct actions of the people downstairs , then at least through her unhealthy associations with them . |
17 | Cheap reels are not worth a second thought . |
18 | She 's not worth a second thought . |
19 | Solidarity with the Spanish Republic undermined the pacifism of many on the left , and Russell knew that he was swimming against the tide when he urged the friends of peace to ‘ avoid the crusading spirit … in relation to Spain , on the grounds that even the best cause is not worth a great war . ’ |
20 | So before you decide that you 're not worth a hundred and fifty thousand pound do actually sit down and work it out . |
21 | After the inglorious fall of his Government , accompanied as it was by a whole series of faux pas , Ramsay MacDonald 's future , crowed the wiseacres of London , was not worth a single cent . |
22 | ALL THE PAIN THAT MONEY CAN BUY : The Life of Christina Onassis by William Wright Gollancz , £5.99 MANY MIGHT think that Christina Onassis 's 37 years of life , notable only for her four marriages and succession of lovers , is not worth a full-scale biography , certainly not one of almost 400 pages . |
23 | Robbery enough existed near London , but Southerners may have suspected , especially after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715 , that there was no order or security in the North and so not worth the long , expensive journey there . |
24 | If the mother objects to abortion on moral or religious grounds , the tests are virtually pointless , and certainly not worth the additional risks that they raise . |
25 | Whatever may be the attitude of any individual teacher , if s/he does not receive adequate support from the school in implementing change , s/he is likely to give up , or decide that the innovation is not worth the extra time and energy required . |
26 | Before 1994 , the suggested date for introducing reforms , it may decide that the change is not worth the political and administrative pain . |
27 | It will provide you with two sides of an A4 sheet giving you very little detail about the property except that it is or is not worth the agreed purchase price . |
28 | If the surveyor states that the property is most definitely not worth the agreed price and the building society will not advance you the money you need , you have three choices : abandon the property and look again , or go to another building society and hope that another surveyor will not make the same judgement , or go to your vendor 's estate agent , explain the situation and hope that the vendor will drop the price . |
29 | It had n't seemed to be worth while , not worth the hurt and upset . |
30 | I saw this small sum not as a personal insult but as a gain for the charity I was supporting . |