Example sentences of "[vb -s] not in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main conclusion which this section and the preceding one allow is that the true importance of intention in trusts lies not in the internal interpretation of the meaning or the details of a bequest , but in construction , in the ability to construe a trust on the basis of the testator 's intention , and to use facts rather than words to do so . |
| 2 | The structural problem lies not in the overall placing , which is finely judged , but in an occasional lapse into spasmodic ( Latin American ? ) rubato . |
| 3 | DNA recognition specificity lies not in the entire variable region but only in domains within the region [ 13 ] . |
| 4 | The most convincing way to interpret Sinhalese perceptions of the colonial courts lies not in the judicial proceedings of Dutch or Kandyan times , but in the cultural precedent set by perceptions of the gods and spirits of popular Buddhism . |
| 5 | The second and more general reason lies not in the particular ways in which human beings may have evolved , but simply in the fact that they have evolved , and by natural selection . |
| 6 | In this social service , therefore , the institutional element consists not in the great organisation over which John Boyd-Carpenter presides , with its large and efficient staff and its famous calculating machine at Newcastle . |
| 7 | One might possibly have expected the average age of marriage in our sample to fall a little in wartime , but it does not in the recorded cases . |
| 8 | So , they can miocenia gravis can association erm with other diseases , but as far as cancer is concerned it does n't in the ordinary sense associate with cancer . |
| 9 | It does n't in the middle English bit , it 's does n't say that it 's a strong smell . |
| 10 | This is obviously related to Foucault 's analysis of the genealogy of the disciplinary society , a society of surveillance and control , which he sets out in his book Discipline and Punish , and to his argument that power proceeds not in the traditional model of sovereignty ( that is negatively , ‘ thou shalt not ’ ) but through administering and fostering life ( that is positively , ‘ you must ’ ) . |