Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] not [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , underlying this chapter is a theory of ageing based not on the analysis of biologically determined differences in senescence or individual adjustments to the ageing process but , instead , on the social creation of dependent status and on the structural relationships between older people and younger adults and between different groups of older people , especially men and women . |
| 2 | In practice the student endeavoured to respond not to the aggression but to the idea that this big , angry and intimidating young man was probably the more frightened of the two of them . |
| 3 | Elite theorists have tended to concentrate not on the material interests but on a common ideology , whether broadly or narrowly defined . |
| 4 | Any backlash problem which there might be seemed to relate not to the nature of our oppression , but to problems of management and presentation by these left-wing councils . |
| 5 | But the frequency with which women were thus brutalised depended not on the category of entrant they fell into but on whether Immigration Officers wanted to use these methods , and on the attitude of the Minister responsible . |
| 6 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 7 | Meaning — the goal — becomes bounded not by the structure of the context in which it occurs , but by the structure of ‘ science ’ . |
| 8 | The polemic in the newspapers had begun not over the kidnapping but over a fight that had broken out a few days previously in a bar much frequented by the young Sardinians who hung around the city and by the city gangs who sold them drugs . |
| 9 | For everything in the world , the craving of the sinful man , the rest of the eyes and the of what he does comes not from the father but from the world . |
| 10 | It would also help convince them that politicians have decided not on the basis of the best orchestrated campaign but by seeking to occupy the high moral ground , wherever it might be found . |