Example sentences of "[verb] not [prep] [noun sg] or [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fought not for honour or glory but to put an end to the threat of Naggaroth for all time . |
| 2 | The thrust of these discursive creations is control ; control not through denial or prohibition , but through ‘ production ’ , through imposing a grid of definition on the possibilities of the body . |
| 3 | Soon the hunters who travelled by rail hunted not for food or protection , but for trophies and sport . |
| 4 | His mistakes in foreign affairs sprang not from expansionism or malevolence but from non-comprehension , shortsightedness and an undue sense of his own importance . |
| 5 | Policies driven not by realism or efficiency , but based on dogs simply on dogma . |
| 6 | Furthermore , many absences from services in the post-Reformation period were occasioned not by apathy or reluctance to forgo a morning 's work or relaxation , but rather by ill-health or family commitments ; when William Kirke of Stow-cum-Quy in Cambridgeshire , for example , was hauled before the church courts for absenteeism , he informed them that at the time his wife had been ‘ lying in childbed and also his children wanted succour ’ . |
| 7 | Another element of Pareto 's attack on classical democratic theory is in his contention that the governing elites , whether characterised by the residue of combinations or by the residue of persistence of aggregates , are motivated not by morality or reason but by these common basic sentiments which are in themselves morally unspecific and illogical . |
| 8 | She mounted the uneven stairs with immense care , determined not to trip or fall , then turned as she reached the top . |
| 9 | Sea shells enlarge not by growth or magnification in all directions simultaneously , but by the accumulation or accretion of material on the unbounded end of the spiral structure . |
| 10 | Wages depended not on skill or responsibility but on quantity of output , regardless of quality . |