Example sentences of "[vb pp] not the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the technical legal controversy has concerned not the more serious varieties of indecent assault but the more ambiguous forms , where the element of indecency is used to separate the sexual offence from the non-sexual . |
| 2 | Of course when the baths were made there were ladies days and gents days , mixed bathing was considered not the thing in these days , but it did come in in the twenty or the , or the late twenties . |
| 3 | I would also expect to see as a result of local shortages , more sharing of dwellings , by households who have formed not the same of concealed households who have n't succeeded in . |
| 4 | Had we emphasized not the choices made but the social rules followed by social actors , then a more collective account of social action would have emerged . |
| 5 | David said he was pleased the police had decided not the take the matter further . |
| 6 | The Builder pointed out that although Scott ‘ has sought not the style of any particular country , but Gothic in abstract , and gathered from the works of all countries ’ , perhaps because of the numerous secular mediaeval buildings in Italy , the character of his design ‘ is more Italian , or at least Continental than it is English ’ . |
| 7 | Indeed the tenacity of Roman concrete and mortar was so great that today , in the ruined buildings of the Empire , it can be seen that it is the stone which has fractured not the material which binds it . |
| 8 | When I had finished I could see that it had made not the slightest impression . |
| 9 | ‘ I did not see the television , as even my friends who had it had not the Independent ; and the only person who saw it seemed to be the greengrocer , who naturally had everything . |
| 10 | It had seemed to Morse , at that moment , that the dull eyes of Hodges had betrayed not the slightest suspicion of Morse 's susceptibility . |
| 11 | In this sense , finance has become not the treasurer 's master but a far more obedient slave . |
| 12 | Bush , the man who could not handle domestic politics , could not cope with his Republican Party in the budget , had displayed not the slightest interest in the worsening problems of poverty in the United States , could be freed to play war . |
| 13 | Perhaps even that future may be judged providential , but in such a story Vatican II will appear as the final occasion when Christianity was at the centre of significance for human and religious history , and John Paul II will be judged not the healer of a divided Church , but the gravedigger of Pope John 's aggiornamento . |
| 14 | For them , the Bolshevik triumph marked not the fulfilment but the failure of the revolutionary promise of 1917 . |
| 15 | Where the husband goes so far as to cause injury , there are available a number of offences against the person with which he may be charged , but the gravamen of the husband 's conduct is the injury he has caused not the sexual intercourse he has forced . ’ |
| 16 | H Street are now about to release a new video , cunningly titled Not the New H Street Video . |
| 17 | Merleau-ponty , whose anticipations of later post-Marxists such as Foucault and Lyotard are readily apparent , therefore rejected not the dialectic as such , nor history , but the closed dialectic as an autonomous principle that was supposed to produce the grand narrative of History : |