Example sentences of "[verb] not [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a wild and mischievous allegation , for which the hon. Lady has not a shadow of evidence . |
| 2 | Someone who has not the concept of age can not be expected to see someone as young or old . |
| 3 | What did the word ‘ delicious ’ mean to someone who cared not a fig about cuisine ? |
| 4 | ii , ‘ o'erstep not the modesty of nature ’ , CS 20 . |
| 5 | Secondly , all these comments stress not a disavowal of communism , but rather a heightening of metaphysical angst once the reality of Soviet society was disclosed . |
| 6 | Heard not a word from SW about the trees left on her doorstep brought up from Jean in September . |
| 7 | Six out of 10 voters are still not buying and three weeks of slogging seem to have made not a jot of difference . |
| 8 | Does he realise that the islanders have run the ferry for many years and that until this year they received not a penny of subsidy , unlike the Scottish ferries ? |
| 9 | The fact is that urban Britain faced not a period of standstill but of dramatic growth and reordering . |
| 10 | With a faint smile that showed not a hint of regret , he brushed his mouth against hers . |
| 11 | ‘ This part of the country ’ , wrote Eliza , ‘ resembles for miles a succession of parks thickly dotted with tall slender trees of the Eucalypti kind and the ground covered with luxuriant verdure where during the past season not a blade of grass was to be seen the bones of many bullocks which died on their way from the upper Hunter to Maitland rill still remain by the roadside a momento [ sic ] of the excessive drought . ’ |
| 12 | When Tormey cites the art of acting as an example of representational behaviour , he was really talking about the style of acting first attributed to the famous English eighteenth-century actor David Garrick , acting which demanded not the expression of emotion but an accomplished technique by which ‘ natural ’ expressions of real life became distilled on stage by artifice . |
| 13 | Clearly the key to economic success is to control not the supply of money , but the supply of central bankers . |
| 14 | His report offered not a vestige of comfort . |
| 15 | The open fields hemmed in the town along its entire northern side , while on the southern side Burghley Park and the farmlands of the Cecils offered not an acre for expansion . |
| 16 | If some of us despair at the seeming lack of real competition to them in Scotland , Hateley 's reaction permits not a whit of concern . |
| 17 | The generic label ‘ poststructuralist ’ is here useful merely as a shorthand to designate those contemporary writers who share not a hostility to history as such but a distrust of simple historicisms . |
| 18 | In view of that , did not the Secretary of State pause to conclude that whatever NATO may require , there is no requirement for the United Kingdom to have its own tactical air-to-surface missile ? |
| 19 | He said that even if the Budget measures did help 100,000 unemployed people , as the Chancellor forecast , it meant that ‘ out of every 30 people out of work , 29 will get not a shred of help at all from the Budget ’ . |
| 20 | Assure you , my good liege , I hold my duty as I hold my soul , Both to my God and to my gracious King ; And I do think , or else this brain of mine Hunts not the trail of policy so sure As it hath used to do , that I have found The very cause of Hamlet 's lunacy … |
| 21 | He looked covertly at the members to his left and right : they gave not a flicker of recognition . |
| 22 | Do not the Secretary of State 's earlier answers make it clear that his vision of Britain in the future is a low-wage economy with the worst employment conditions in Europe ? |
| 23 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 24 | When I went to Germany within a few days of the end of the war , it was rather remarkable to go to a Luftwaffe air field with many aircraft , all intact and fully serviceable , but with their tanks — dry not a drop of oil was to be found on those bases . |
| 25 | This seemed unnecessary , for Miss Logan had not a word of Turk or Russo or Kurdish or whatever mixture it was the other two communicated in ; but she did as she was told . |
| 26 | If she did , he did n't know what he would do ; he had not a shred of evidence . |
| 27 | Conservatives taunted them that they might find themselves , fugitives in Africa , ‘ drawing from under their arm a very fine plan of a constitution while they had not a foot of land to stand upon ’ , after having opened the doors to ‘ the revolutionary spirit which had destroyed France ’ . |
| 28 | In fact though , as Lenin said , populism had not a grain of socialism in it . |
| 29 | Although he had not a prayer against Desert Orchid in the Gold Cup , Norton 's Coin came to Cheltenham with the reputation of being a useful enough horse despite lowly origins . |
| 30 | Five little speckled frogs had not a speck of luck each little look delicious yum , yum , yum , what have they |