Example sentences of "not [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the grammatical and lexical oppositions in a language are not between equal members of a pair , but between two entities one of which is more marked than the other … . |
| 2 | Hence we investigate transitions not between individual words but grammatical categories . |
| 3 | It should be noted , however , that the disambiguation required by the present project is not between multiple word senses , but instead between multiple interpretations of the input . |
| 4 | The internal rhymes however operate not between even lines but between odd and even , 1 and 2 , 3 and 4 , and so on . |
| 5 | The problems of the older cities were to be resolved — if resolved they ever were — on the spot and not through planned decentralization . |
| 6 | Virtue was manifested by acting virtuously , not through passive reflection . |
| 7 | Cavaillès developed these ideas into a theory of science as such , which , he argued , changed not through empirical discovery but through the theoretical reworking of its own concepts in the ‘ pure ’ sciences . |
| 8 | The second of the views we have noted derives from a claim that the route to indubitable knowledge is not through empirical experience of the external world , but through logical , that is rational , principles which are beyond doubt . |
| 9 | But dominion in the Atlantic cable ventures came about not through technological pre-eminence but via another British near-monopoly at that time : capital . |
| 10 | Humans ca n't catch it and pass it on , especially not through solid glass.in But he refused to give ground on this issue . |
| 11 | Many adult smokers continue smoking not through unfettered choice but because they are addicted to the nicotine in cigarettes . |
| 12 | He envisaged an emancipation from reification would come not through abstract reflection alone but through ‘ praxis ’ : |
| 13 | The national independence of both Germany and Italy came not through agrarian revolution , but through the force of arms of established powers . |
| 14 | That is the way that we build jobs surely , not through bureaucratic regulations . |
| 15 | Hence , our data strongly suggest that the inhibiting effects of indomethacin is not through cyclo-oxygenase inhibition . |
| 16 | The working hypothesis reached by the counsellor has to be transferred to the counsellees , not through direct transmission , but by helping them achieve their own insights . |
| 17 | I sell Amway products because the company operates only by direct selling ( not through retail shops ) , and I saw being a distributor as a chance for me to raise funds for NCT ( and my kids ' playgroup ! ) |
| 18 | After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers . |
| 19 | To dismiss the doctrine of consideration as not worth serious attention because |
| 20 | He wanted to see a mixed economy of care and he considered it essential that the social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services , not as monopolistic providers . |
| 21 | It is vital that social services authorities should see themselves as the arrangers and purchasers of care services — not as monopolistic providers . |
| 22 | He did indeed believe in the autonomy of art , but as the exultation of the conflicts of history and not as pure commentary . |
| 23 | They watched with detachment , and even with satisfaction , as the Masai began at the eleventh hour to organize themselves to resist what they feared would be the encroachment of agricultural peoples on their land , not as traditional appendages of the Masai way of life , but as conquerors armed with all the power of the modern state . |
| 24 | ‘ You know her , Wilson , ’ he said wearily , ‘ she is not as other people , and you have far too much sense to take this personally . ’ |
| 25 | For weeks he would live in a world by himself conscious as he watched the humdrum routine of his fellow prisoners that he was destined for higher things and happy in the knowledge that he was not as other men . |
| 26 | Proper scientists , proper scientists say , and believe , are not as other men . |
| 27 | And , in part , their power came from an understanding that they were not as other men . |
| 28 | But you knew when we wed that I was not as other men — that my life , my choices were not those of normal men . ’ |
| 29 | At no time , not even vaguely , had such a notion occurred to her , nor did she even think that he was not as other men . |
| 30 | This illustrates a central concern of this book , that we should at all times view old people as playing a part in the drama of life , not as passive onlookers . |