Example sentences of "not as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have also campaigned for the Government to give AIDS greater recognition , not as a disease affecting specific sectors of the community , but as a social problem for which there must be adequate welfare provision . |
| 2 | I have also campaigned for the Government to give AIDS greater recognition , not as a disease affecting specific sectors of the community , but as a social problem for which there must be adequate welfare provision . |
| 3 | It is noteworthy that at this time ( when secularised education was patronised by nearly all the governments of Europe including those that were nominally Catholic ) this query was dealt with as a matter of discipline by the Congregation of propaganda , and not as a matter of doctrine by the Congregation of the Inquisition . |
| 4 | The glass not as addition to room , he wrote , but as subtraction from room . |
| 5 | Keg bitters and lager have been enormously successful for the brewers not as a result of genuine consumer demand but due to saturation advertising . |
| 6 | Nobody 's going to know officially and it 's not as if there are hundreds of you or anything — I mean , so what if somebody does find you ? |
| 7 | Thus a gold or purple-leaved shrub is best used not as an alternative to green foliage , but as a specimen highlight whose beauty depends on the contrast with its green neighbours . |
| 8 | They therefore concluded that in consciousness itself we are aware of the brain topic-neutrally ; that is , not as the brain , but in some way that is neutral about the nature of the object of our consciousness . |
| 9 | Predictably , perhaps , I regard this argument not as a demonstration that the acquisition of new concepts is impossible , but as another reductio ad absurdum of the representational theory of the mind . |
| 10 | Well , if a thesis that it is difficult to make sense of allows a conclusion that is repugnant , then the rational course would seem to be to take this as another reason for distrusting the thesis : not as a reason for admitting the repugnant conclusion . |
| 11 | The functionalist view I advocate is that mental phenomena emerge as a result of the way that the neurons etcetera are functionally organized in the brain , not as a result of the physical properties of neurons per se . |
| 12 | From a functionalist perspective , mental processes are inferred processes — they gain their status in our theoretical base not as a result of being directly observed or experienced , but from the way in which they enable us to understand and explain human behaviour . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh do go on , ’ Harriet hovers above , laughing , ‘ it 's not as if we did n't all know how virtuous you feel . ’ |
| 14 | Can it ever come to life again , not as a bait and hook for politicians to use , not as a shouting for soccer fans ? |
| 15 | Can it ever come to life again , not as a bait and hook for politicians to use , not as a shouting for soccer fans ? |
| 16 | This book shows something of what has emerged out of religious interpretations of death , not as a history of death but as an indication of what lies at the root of the major religious traditions , lending to each its characteristic style . |
| 17 | Megill writes not as a literary critic but as a philosophically trained historian of ideas . |
| 18 | It is not as if Eurotunnel was working at the leading-edge of technological innovation . |
| 19 | Third , the centre has collapsed as a political force — although not as a constituency — and this obliges both major parties to compete more assiduously for middle-of-the-road votes . |
| 20 | It is not as if four-star leaded fuel is going to be phased out tomorrow , but more and more buyers are asking : ‘ Does it take unleaded ? ’ |
| 21 | One of Crossman 's cardinal convictions was that Britain was run not as a democracy but as an oligarchy — and that view of his was perhaps partially reflected in my own youthful outburst against the essentially incestuous relationship between politicians and journalists that I thought I had discovered even within the people 's party . |
| 22 | Not as wild boar running free and doing untold damage to the countryside , as in Italy , France and Germany ; but as farmed wild boar which should ease your mind , even if it causes the farmers untold headaches . |
| 23 | When Mr Baker quoted Henry 's words before Agincourt — ‘ He which hath no stomach to this fight , let him depart ’ — it was seen , not as an attack on Labour , but a slight on the Chancellor who had decamped from the conference for Blaby . |
| 24 | It 's not as if there are n't aspects of his career that are n't worth exploring : how did he come to use drums , then almost unknown in Texan country line-ups ? |
| 25 | In this context ‘ easing ’ has to be seen as a means to accomplishing routine community police work , not as an alternative to it . |
| 26 | Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker . |
| 27 | He left behind him the impression — but not as if he had ever meant to say it — that anyone who disagreed with him must really be rather stupid . |
| 28 | Society reacted to it , the organs of law reacted to it and eventually but not as a result of direct cause and effect — it is something more subtle than that — it went out of fashion . |
| 29 | That he thought this possible is suggested by his comments on Frazer whom he saw not as an investigator of a remote and hence irrelevant past , but as someone whose researches are like Freud 's , of apparently universal application , applying not to a particular historical period but to ‘ the soul ’ . |
| 30 | The thoughts of Cailliet and Bédé point forward to the importance of communion with the dead in Four Quartets , with their intense , visionary moments ; more immediately the Frenchmen 's stress that , like primitive thought , ‘ Le symbolisme , en effet , requiert tout d'abord une détente de l'attention ’ , is paralleled in The Use of Poetry by Eliot 's presentation of poetic creation not as an act of concentrated attention , but as a relaxation , or removal of a normal barrier . |