Princeton SC question

haoran

The anthropologist Marija Gimbutas believed that preliterate European tribes were not patriarchal like later societies and were matriarchal groups centered around worship of the Great Mother goddess.  

(A) The anthropologist Marija Gimbutas believed that preliterate European tribes were not patriarchal like later societies and were  
(B) The anthropologist Marija Gimbutas believed preliterate European tribes not to be patriarchal like later societies but  
(C)  The anthropologist Marija Gimbutas believed that preliterate European tribes were not patriarchal like later societies but were  
(D)  It was believed by the anthropologist Marija Gimbutas that preliterate European tribes were not patriarchal like later societies but  
(E)  reliterate European tribes were believed by the anthropologist Marija Gimbutas not to be patriarchal like later societies and were  

Key is C. But I think D is better, comments please.

braveMBA

不知道你是不是认为be not sth but sth的结构比较好？但是：
1、D中的it was believed by the ...that是典型的OG中的 wordy的用法。
2、be not but be我觉得也不是错误。
3、另外在be not A but B中如果A和B属于同一性质，即如果都是名词，则省略BE最好，但是这里的STH和STH一个是ADJ，一个是NOUN，补出BE似乎更好（此理由牵强，仅供参考）
我觉得通过大的句子结构排除D可能好些。
讨论。

haoran

Yes, I think "be not sth but sth" is better than "be not sth but be sth".

Thanks braveMBA.