Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cases on the common law side are usually won not through counsel 's address to the court , which there is usually a little time to prepare in advance , but through the effective examination of witnesses . |
| 2 | The problem is quite general : when the pragmatic implications of an utterance do not match the context , then in general the utterance is not treated as in any way infelicitous or inappropriate or bizarre-rather the pragmatic implications are simply assumed not to hold . |
| 3 | Even so , the grip of liberal ideas upon the law of contract is weakening , because , as I have tried to show , the legal doctrine is ultimately shaped not by fidelity to liberal precepts but by a particular scheme of distributive justice and a vision of the legitimate market order . |
| 4 | There was a positive side to Allied policy , with the attempt to ‘ re-educate ’ Germans towards democratic values , but faith in Nazi ideology was arguably destroyed not by re-education but by Hitler 's suicide , defeat and the problems which followed . |
| 5 | Nizan 's refusal to empathise fully with his fictional characters was consequently envisaged not as part of a global strategy to adapt the novel to the demands of contemporary social experience , but rather as the ideological inability of a communist novelist to engage in a complicity judged by Sartre to be a fundamental aspect of the novelist 's art . |
| 6 | She was hard pressed not to glower at him — for a second there , he 'd sounded just like her father , and she was getting tired of being put under the interrogation spotlight like this . |
| 7 | He was there dealing not with summary remedies available to the state to which a citizen had no opportunity to state a defence but rather to additional consequences which might adversely affect a citizen should he fail in his defence to the claim to the principal sum . |