Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [not/n't] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of the Establishment came not from the fact that a few dozen people imposed their will on the rest of us , but from the fact that for a long time we felt it right that the opinions of such people should have respectful attention paid to them . |
| 2 | The main significance of the circle lay not in the views of its members but in the viciousness of the government 's response to them . |
| 3 | Thus Turner has written that the sporadic appearance of trade unionism arose not from the absence of collective association but from the " intermittence " of the actual need for collective action " . |
| 4 | The wood for the hedge arrived not on the backs of the hedge-builders but in the boot of their Ford Cortina . |
| 5 | That is , a revolution from above , a revolution guided not by the ambition of the bulk of the population , but by the interests of the landed aristocracy and the military . |
| 6 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Newman however relied on certain additional points which had apparently been raised by him before the Divisional Court , but which the court did not in the circumstances find it necessary to consider in its judgment . |
| 7 | He sought mandamus directed not to the visitor but to the provost and fellows to reinstate him on the grounds that the provost and fellows had breached the rules of natural justice . |
| 8 | If the animal had been stolen from another district , and its owner did not as a result claim it , thieves could buy the fully-documented animal for a nominal sum . |
| 9 | Anti-immigrant feeling had not in the past been strong in Belgium , although in May young north African immigrants had rioted in Brussels , prompting the government to reinforce its policy of integrating immigrants [ ibid . ] . |
| 10 | Critical analysis , one student journal proclaimed , ‘ generally produces results more significant than the best creative work now being written , ’ a judgement offered not as a complaint but as a boast : |
| 11 | To Folly 's surprise , the voice came not from the stranger , but from somewhere behind and above her . |
| 12 | Stewart 's Nature critique focused not on an analysis of Ungar 's behavioural claims , but on the chemical purity and composition of the presumed scotophobin . |
| 13 | The question of homage , on the contrary , was another matter : its significance lay not in the amount of service which it might subsequently furnish to the kings of France , but in the principle which it enshrined . |
| 14 | It would be an ironical stroke if investigations into the affair resulted not in the discovery of those happenings in which they had been guilty but only in those where they had been blameless . |
| 15 | It was held that the exemption clause did not in the circumstances pass the test of reasonableness and that therefore their sellers could not rely upon it to limit their liability . |
| 16 | All the judges emphasized that the danger of disorder came not from the CND marchers but rather from the fact that ‘ [ h ] ooligans and others might attack the police who were doing their duty in escorting a peaceful procession ’ ( Lord Denning ) . |
| 17 | The initial impetus for the rethink came not from the officials but from Sir Stafford Cripps in the summer of 1946 . |
| 18 | The success of Morrison 's project derived not from the cementing of working-class allegiance to Labour through the unions , but in filling the political vacuum created by the downturn of political and industrial militancy in the immediate postwar period . |
| 19 | Its importance within the city lay not in the speed of its rise — which was hardly spectacular — nor in its violence — for it could only do what Berlin sanctioned , but rather in the social and national spirit it fostered within the community . |
| 20 | The pair basked in a shared arrogance ; arrogance aimed not at the kid in the street but arrogance aimed at Britain 's pop aristocracy . |
| 21 | Certainly there would have been no satisfaction in such behaviour if the would-be escaper had not for a time at any rate believed in himself |
| 22 | The question of jurisdiction depended not on the truth or falsehood of the charge but upon its nature and was determinable at the commencement not at the conclusion of the inquiry . |
| 23 | The greatest single expenditure on a Nonconformist chapel came not from the Congregationalists but from the Baptists and not in England but in Scotland . |
| 24 | As it turned out the problem came not from the Opposition but from our own side . |
| 25 | Having ascertained that the problem related not to the law but to the evidence , he said : |
| 26 | This is medicine practised not for the benefit of the patient but to protect the doctor from litigation . |