Example sentences of "not through the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The siphuncle in most ammonoids runs not through the middle of the whorl but along the outer edge . |
| 2 | Choosing to overlook the actual blatancy of British power and concentrate instead upon its supposed attenuation , they produced the definitive celebration of the attempt to govern , not through the threat or application of physical force , but through the power of personal influence alone . |
| 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 | At break I was on duty in the corridor telling people to get out and go around to the canteen not through the school . |
| 5 | NatWest put in £250,000 but not through the Money Advice Trust . ’ |
| 6 | And yet it is a paradox of the period that change came into country life as often as not through the women . |
| 7 | So , when you cut a punchcard at the bottom , cut into the card and not through the holes . |
| 8 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 9 | There were several little alleyways that he might have used and they had a man watching each one ; but then in the end he approached from the other side , not through the bazaar at all but along through the streets , the way they themselves had come on that previous visit . |
| 10 | Or no — not through the water . |
| 11 | I walked along , trembling with anger and misery , not through the London of beautiful houses and clean streets that I 'd dreamed of , where people wore only elegant , expensive clothes , nor between buildings that soared into the clouds , but in the darkness past trees planted at infrequent intervals and council houses with their unlit windows , all alike ; I passed people asleep , protected from the cold in cardboard boxes , and rubbish in untidy heaps or neatly tied up in black plastic bags and empty milk bottles with traces of sour milk lingering in them , and I marvelled once again that the dairies were trusting enough to leave them lying about . |
| 12 | A sudden wave of fear that a new world war was in the making found expression not through the LNU — whose recruitment declined sharply during 1933 — but in some rather less disciplined eruptions of protest . |
| 13 | Expectation is generated not through the effervescence of the enthusiasts , but through the intercession of the people of God . |
| 14 | This Act set out to enlarge the range of civil remedies for wrongful acts done in contemplation or furtherance of ‘ industrial disputes , ’ but through the new statutory concept of unfair industrial practices , not through the law of tort . |
| 15 | The way forward is not through the law but through the understanding of addictive disease . |
| 16 | Er aye but not er not industrially , you know not through the union . |
| 17 | ‘ Not through the post , luvvy . ’ |
| 18 | Like Sartre , he sought to constitute Marxism as a form of truth , but attempted to prove its truth not through the dialectic of history but rather as a science , authenticating Marx 's ‘ immense theoretical revolution ’ epistemologically through a demonstration of its scientificity . |
| 19 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 20 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 21 | How then were they kept alive and fresh in the hearts and minds of English folk , if not through the chapman ? |
| 22 | Thus we might , in the case of names , allow a representation like : The explicit omission of round brackets conveys the claim that the name identifies some entity directly , not through the mention of some properties . |
| 23 | Their relation to the totality emerges not through the form of synecdoche — the typical detail which can then be generalized as metaphor — but should , according to Lukács , be drawn out through the narrative which inscribes and extends a connection between such moments of empirical reality and the general laws of history as a totality . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Djaballah said on Nov. 27 that " the Islamic state would be established by all the potential existing in Algeria , and not through the potential of one single party " . |
| 26 | In his last public statement as Home Secretary , he announced : ‘ Once again the terrorists have tried to make their point through violence and not through the ballot box . ’ |
| 27 | As well as making claims about the efficiency of markets , the theory denies the existence of producer power , at the same time drawing a reassuring analogy with democratic control in the political sphere : corporate behaviour is no more than a reflection of the popular will , expressed not through the ballot box , but via individual purchase decisions . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ? ’ |