Example sentences of "[verb] not [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The approach taken by the EC is to impose not uniform standards but essential standards . |
| 2 | Yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword , but all by the extremity of famine , which they themselves had wrought . |
| 3 | In December 1989 Greenpeace consultants suggested that by 1993 power station emissions would again reach 1980 levels and overall emissions would fall not 22 per cent as the government predicted , but only 10 per cent . |
| 4 | This , in turn , strengthened the image which Franco wished to convey of the rising , the war and his nascent regime , as representing not individual interests , but the national interest . |
| 5 | There is room for organising in a non-party political way , and for the creation of umbrella organisations which bring together gay men or people with AIDS , representing not any attempt at service delivery , but a demand for government action . |
| 6 | Yet the urge to press on , paradoxically , could lead to questioning becoming not more but less effective and therefore a somewhat inefficient use of the time available . |
| 7 | Even though both currencies are allowed to fluctuate within the wide 6 p.c. bands not available to other monetary units , the escudo shot right to the ceiling of its band — pushing sterling close to its floor . |
| 8 | That lease stipulates that the building occupy not more than half the lot , but the garden-topped garage brings the footprint to 90% . |
| 9 | No , I think sometimes it 's forgotten not all that many , you know , these remarks about us not being there . |
| 10 | Voice not unlike Red-wattled Plover but higher-pitched ‘ zit-zeet-zeet ’ . |
| 11 | Also there are elements in these sculptures which can not properly be understood if one has not first considered the contemporary revolution in painting . |
| 12 | Some call him a good bread-and-butter player , but he has not apparent weaknesses . |
| 13 | Israel itself has not forsworn nuclear weapons . |
| 14 | It ‘ has not equal value with the other proper doctrines of the faith , but is simply a summary statement ’ . |
| 15 | Cos you 're going there because your own business has not any more ! |
| 16 | Though , to be sure , he has not red hair , so he can not plead that excuse . |
| 17 | To date the QAU has not concerned itself as a unit with the issue of school internal/self evaluation . |
| 18 | Has not national taxation increased with higher levels of VAT and the introduction of poll tax ? |
| 19 | When general it ordains a standard , which however has not more but less authority than the particular choice , since it depends on a generalization about everyone 's reactions in a recurring situation , which is as vulnerable to exceptions as any other generalization . |
| 20 | Maybe we Scots and Irish have paid a high price for our long memories , but who in Scotland or Ireland has not some attitude to the Great Hunger , or the Clearances , or just to a vague morass of names , Culloden and Robert the Bruce and Rebel Songs ? |
| 21 | With a fixed exchange rate , has not this country badly lost competitiveness ? |
| 22 | Art therapy can be of immense value to some Disabled people , as it is to some non-Disabled people , but it has not intrinsic link to Disability and offers no solution to the problem as Disabled people perceive it . |
| 23 | She has not double-glazed the house in order to preserve its architectural integrity . |
| 24 | But in that this is the case , has not another problem appeared ? |
| 25 | To those who urged the perennial claims of the virtues of community living and quoted Ecclesiastes 4:10 " Woe to him who is alone when he falls ; for he has not another to help him up " , Rolle answered : they do not define " alone " as being " without God " but understand it to mean " without company " . |
| 26 | Wigan , going for their 20th successive victory at St Helens tomorrow , have the opposite problem , playing so well individually and collectively that their coach , John Monie , has not enough places , especially with Martin Dermott and Steve Hampson fit again , to satisfy demand . |
| 27 | It wrings higher performance per clock than anybody and it has not broken compatibility the way Intel intends to do with the P6 and the way IBM has done with the Rios and its subset , the PowerPC , having apparently failed to scale the thing down to the desktop and having instead been forced to strip out 40 instructions and substitute a software emulator . |
| 28 | It wrings higher performance per clock than anybody and it has not broken compatibility the way Intel intends to do with the P6 ( UX No 420 ) and the way IBM has done with the Rios and its subset the PowerPC , having apparently failed to scale it down to the desktop and having been forced to strip out 40 instructions and substitute a software emulator . |
| 29 | Mr McNally : ‘ Is it correct that over the two days Mr Anderson was interviewed not one shred of forensic evidence was put to him ? ’ |
| 30 | Seven million gloomy conifers , acres of heavy , sagging rhododendrons all surrounding a monstrosity of a building which contains not one single item of any lasting or significant aesthetic merit . |