Example sentences of "[vb base] not with " in BNC.
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| 1 | They mingle not with their laughing comrades again ; |
| 2 | Wasps also make nests filled with combs of hexagonal cells , but they build not with wax but with paper . |
| 3 | It can be argued that the major failings in 1940 lay not with the government but with the Army whose ageing generals were quite unprepared for the tactics of blitzkrieg . |
| 4 | And indeed it 's a sign of the times that I speak not with a mitre metaphorically upon my head but perhaps the glengarry of the convenorship of the Central Council of ACTS and therefore I am in part your servant here . |
| 5 | When products and processes are so protean , companies grow or decline not with the market for some specific good , but with the creative and adaptive capacity of their workers . |
| 6 | Eliot 's sympathies lie not with urban industrialism of ‘ half-dead mill towns of southern New Hampshire and Massachusetts ’ but with humanized rural landscape which ‘ has been moulded by numerous generations of one race , and … which … in turn has modified the race to its own character . |
| 7 | The problems usually lie not with emptiness , which can be filled , but with the fixed building created by a designer who thought he was being terribly clever but whose design has hindered events ever since . |
| 8 | Such accusations lie not with counselling , but with a kind of primitive logic which associates pain with whatever is most closely at hand . |
| 9 | In a two page epilogue the author merely states that nowadays students begin not with a description of chemicals and reactions but by learning Schrödinger 's equation and the shapes of orbitals . |
| 10 | The single-shelled molluscs feed not with tentacles within the shell like the brachiopods but with a radula , a ribbon-shaped tongue , covered with rasping teeth . |
| 11 | Upon a network of metals , lighted by great arc lamps , the workers here deal not with packages but with trucks . |
| 12 | It is the least satisfactory feature of collegiate universities that for all social and administrative purposes — meals and meetings and life in Common Room — the academics minx not with those who share their intellectual preoccupations but with people of completely different disciplines . |
| 13 | One of his texts was ‘ By me Kings reign ’ ; another was ‘ My son , fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change . ’ |
| 14 | We start not with the sins of the father within us , nor with the sins of anyone else , but as crystal clear water , into which dirty sump oil is poured . |
| 15 | When the Newcastle goalkeeper rose to his feet after treatment , Mr Jones chose to re-start play not with a free-kick but with a drop-ball inside the penalty area . |
| 16 | We do n't with thousand pound in his back pocket ca n't be bad . |
| 17 | If you if you do n't with a hair dryer if you were n't blowing the air over it , what happens ? |
| 18 | He , he leaves his coat on see right and I do n't with a coat so he opens his window cos he 's hot , I 'm freezing . |
| 19 | well you do n't with this |
| 20 | you do n't with this it 's quite good it 's not bad at all |
| 21 | When the young hatch , they are even more fish-like than their parents , for they have no legs and breathe not with lungs , which will develop later , but with feathery external gills . |
| 22 | Stronger but I 've not with anything anything like that . |
| 23 | So during an election the pollsters work not with random sampling but with ‘ quota sampling ’ . |
| 24 | Well they have n't with me . . |