Example sentences of "[verb] not [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That lease stipulates that the building occupy not more than half the lot , but the garden-topped garage brings the footprint to 90% . |
| 5 | No , I think sometimes it 's forgotten not all that many , you know , these remarks about us not being there . |
| 6 | Cos you 're going there because your own business has not any more ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | With a fixed exchange rate , has not this country badly lost competitiveness ? |
| 10 | But in that this is the case , has not another problem appeared ? |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It 's nothing that I hear , say not another car |
| 14 | That is the situation where the relief is most likely to be needed and if it excluded not much is left . |
| 15 | And with a fabulous climate of around 250 days of sun a year , tempered by refreshing sea breezes , this southern shore has become a paradise for those who want not more from a holiday than relaxation or sport or a combination of the two . |
| 16 | The nurse gave a small laugh as he said , ‘ Well , not until he 's ready , and I should think not this time . |
| 17 | I think , you know , it it it 's er something we made not all that |
| 18 | The covenant was not just an important past event preserved by tradition but was the theme of what Gunnell calls ‘ a communal drama played out between Yahweh — He who will be there — and His people in time ’ , for in the words of Deuteronomy 5 : 3 , ‘ The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers , but with us , even us , who are all of us here alive this day . ’ |
| 19 | But resurrection to a Messianic Kingdom is surely implied in the words of the mother of the Seven Martyrs in II Maccabees : " Fear not this executioner , but proving thyself worthy of thy brethren , accept thy death that in the mercy of God I may receive thee again with thy brethren . " |
| 20 | This charge would be acceptable as long as it constitutes not more than , say 10% of the passenger fare . |
| 21 | This charge would be acceptable as long as it constitutes not more than , say 10% of the passenger fare . |
| 22 | I mean that just sounds like familiar you know , I mean not that |
| 23 | I mean not many people who 'd clashed with mrs thatcher did survive . |
| 24 | I mean not all of them are like it but |
| 25 | Lord have mercy upon us , and lay not these sins to our charge . " |
| 26 | Leith wasted not another second . |
| 27 | She said it because Rory was in her mind , and he had told her he lived not many miles from Belleeks , at a little crossroads in the lower hills . |
| 28 | Manfred Stolpe , chairman of the Berlin-Brandenburg Church Consistory , admitted not all their dreams had come true but it was ‘ a start to the process of dialogue ’ . |
| 29 | And that experience that took place on that initial day that is the birthday of the church was not just a one off thing , but as others came into the church they experienced not another pentecost , but if you like , their own pentecost . |
| 30 | Heber 's study , the Post said , ‘ revealed not that mental deficiencies are passed on genetically , but that mentally retarded mothers tend to create an environment that is less conducive to mental development than that created by slum neighbours of normal intelligence , ’ The New York Times told its readers : ‘ The Milwaukee Project , an experiment in intensive preschool education for ( potentially retarded ) children , has proved that they can be raised more than 30 test points higher than other children from the same environment and with the same type of mother . ’ |