Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] not [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the latter seems to be chosen overwhelmingly testifies not to the existence of coercion , but to careful selection procedures for placing persons in corporate positions coupled with successful methods of persuading them that their interests and the corporation 's interests happily coincide — or at least , that that is the most sensible , pragmatic way of looking at it . |
| 2 | In my own university , for instance , the number of first year students of biology that we have been able to accept this year has been entirely constrained not by the quality of our applicants but the physical size of our teaching laboratories . |
| 3 | It should be made clear that judicial review has traditionally dealt not with the correctness of the findings as such but with their legality . |
| 4 | Although there were gaps in the system , such as the provision for small firms and for high-risk finance , the fundamental problem with the financing of industry in the UK was correctly attributed not to the lack of availability of external financing , but rather to the inadequacy of industrial performance . |
| 5 | However as each urban locality has been reduced to the status of a labour pool so they are now integrated not within the production process of capital but of wage-labour , within the sphere of civil society rather than of capitalist production per se . |
| 6 | This obligation to inform now appears not in the Act but in the Code of Practice , which suggests not only that suspects should be told of their rights but also of ‘ the fact that they need not be exercised immediately ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Formalist ’ was in fact a misnomer for this theoretical enterprise and the term was actually coined not by the group but by their opponents . |