Example sentences of "not through " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But dominion in the Atlantic cable ventures came about not through technological pre-eminence but via another British near-monopoly at that time : capital . |
| 3 | Frank Sinatra always mentions the writer when he introduces a song , but it is not through generosity , she believes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The profits from capitalism are redistributed to millions of people , not through taxing and public spending but through collective investment trusts . |
| 7 | The individual Jew must make his own pact with the Almighty , and pray directly to Him , not through an agent . |
| 8 | The way to convince this Matron of my mother 's extreme need of a hospital bed is not through any show of carelessness on my part . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As we have so much control in forming a horse 's habits it is up to us to teach it good ones ; and not through our own lack of thought or knowledge , or want of kindness and sensitivity , impair the horse ; or even worse , teach it such bad habits that its life will be a misery to itself or others . |
| 11 | Men like Pericles controlled policy not through any power vested in them but only so long as they could persuade the people . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The siphuncle in most ammonoids runs not through the middle of the whorl but along the outer edge . |
| 15 | Favours are won through reciprocity , not through militant industrial action . |
| 16 | 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 ! ) |
| 17 | The national independence of both Germany and Italy came not through agrarian revolution , but through the force of arms of established powers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | With Twin Peaks , the fascination is in watching , with mounting incredulity , the parodic games of multiple genres and thoroughly cliched conventions , which are striking not through their revitalization of verisimilitude in new forms but through the unlikeliness and inappropriateness of their combination . |
| 21 | We accept the general proposition that people should rise to the top as far as possible through their talents and skills , not through wealth or influence or inheritance . |
| 22 | I found myself putting the intelligence into my programmes not through a general researcher , but through the intellect of the presenter . |
| 23 | Most reports fail not through lack of facts but because they contain too many . |
| 24 | Again the Cobblers held them to a goalless draw after being reduced to ten men , but this time it was not through injury : half-back Manning was sent off after twenty-five minutes for tripping Forest 's West from behind . |
| 25 | The problems of the older cities were to be resolved — if resolved they ever were — on the spot and not through planned decentralization . |
| 26 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 27 | For most diurnal raptors it was difficult to obtain large enough samples , not through any shortage of pellet collections but because they contained so little bone . |
| 28 | It will achieve this not through seeing itself as a piece of concrete , proprietary estate , as an end in itself ; rather it is a moving organisation for progress , existing for its future not its present , and achieving its future , and so fulfilling its raison d'etre , in aspiration for , and achievement of , improvement . |
| 29 | Application for financial support is made through the University and not through DENI . |
| 30 | Application for admission to this course is made directly to the University , not through UCCA . |