Example sentences of "not [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Benton in his article on the rhynchosaurs ( 7 April , p 9 ) suggests that the so-called battle for survival really took place between the food-source plants and not between the animals themselves . |
| 2 | The coolness between the two men , but not between the sisters , continued until one day when Edward was obliged to seek medical advice . |
| 3 | Many of the more intractable problems involved with merger of solicitors ' firms will be within the province of the accountancy profession : and the best advice as to how to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable will be obtained not through the pages of any book but from a fellow professional who has actually and successfully observed the process at first hand . |
| 4 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 5 | So , when you cut a punchcard at the bottom , cut into the card and not through the holes . |
| 6 | It trailed across the dust , occasionally halting in dark brown cakes , from room to room , not through the doors sealed up with breeze-blocks but through holes in the walls , holes through which we crawled , troglodytes all . |
| 7 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
| 8 | He argued that the incident must be looked at , not through the eyes of the reviewing court , but through the eyes of a reasonable man . |
| 9 | The editor will know that , and the editor will be sensitive to the readership , and the editor will look at it , not through the eyes of an editor just as an individual , but will say , ‘ Putting myself in the , in the position of my readers , would they want to read this ? ’ |
| 10 | From within such a perspective sexuality comes to be understood relationally — not as the relations within sexual difference , but the relations between the sexual and the non-sexual as these have been both imagined and as they may now be radically envisioned . |
| 11 | They are seen not as the victims of social problems but as those who contribute to their own victimisation by their irresolution or fatalism or apathy . |
| 12 | Yet at the same time there was discontinuity , for Jesus taught ‘ not as the scribes ’ , for unlike them his message was self-authenticating . |
| 13 | No , no , but these these this was the answers by the professional in the field , not about the answers from the general populace . |
| 14 | He 's bothering daily about his soldiers in the field and not about the crosses in the school … |
| 15 | So this debate is not about saving foxes , it will achieve nothing for animal welfare it is not about the merits or otherwise of fox hunting , from which it diverts attention , it is about the county council seeking to make hollow gestures against their tenants ' rights . |
| 16 | Comedy is not about the jokes you tell , not just about how funny you even tell them , but simply about whether you 're funny or not . |
| 17 | Suddenly Cassie said : ‘ Johnny you must n't tell anyone ; not about us ; not about the things I 've said . ’ |
| 18 | In other words if you , you 've been a teacher and you 're working in a school , you tend to talk about the things about your school that different from other schools , not about the things about your school that are the same , and that go on in all the other schools as well . |
| 19 | For a refreshing change this book is not about the exploits of the Lancaster , but that unsung stalwart of Bomber Command 's early war years , the Whitley . |
| 20 | But the story is not about the animals . |
| 21 | I spent some time in discussion in Oman , not about the minesweepers but about the much more valuable corvette order that the Omanis are seeking to place , and I was given very satisfactory assurances by His Majesty the Sultan about those orders . |
| 22 | It was disquieting , though , the way he seemed to have to make these excuses to himself , as if his conscience which he had , so he thought at the age of sixteen , successfully buried , had suddenly reawakened to plague him , not about the fundamentals of belief and morality but about such comparative trivialities as whether or not one should attend the church bazaar . |
| 23 | There is a lot left to do so can we please er try and stick to the point I have to chair right to respond should he so chose , but not about the cars in Stretton Avenue . |
| 24 | ‘ But not about the caves , ’ she laughed and , tugging at his arm , she insisted they tag on with the other tourists . |
| 25 | They showed that the death risks to plants in populations within years were commonly greatest when the survivors were growing fastest — not during the periods when the anthropomorphically-minded botanist would regard the physical environment as ‘ harsh ’ . |
| 26 | If I do n't deliver the goods , I do n't get any money , In business you get paid for results , not for the hours you put in . ’ |
| 27 | But not for the cognoscenti . |
| 28 | Yes , of course I am disgruntled , but not for the reasons you may adduce . |
| 29 | ‘ I know , ’ I said again , and I was too , but not for the reasons the proctologist believed . |
| 30 | This has happened in a number of developed countries — though not for the reasons given by Marx but primarily because of the growth of government and restrictive practices in labour markets . |