Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broadly speaking , then , the powers and duties of parents and guardians relate not to property , but to the care and custody of the infant 's person . |
| 2 | The new frontier for firms like BP , Statoil , Amoco and Pennzoil lies not on land but under the Caspian Sea . |
| 3 | Reproductive success , we now know , and Darwin did n't of course , means passing on your genes . |
| 4 | A recognition of these instinctive processes and relations does not of course entail envisaging all social behaviour as an unmediated result of underlying primordial processes . |
| 5 | The scenes to be shot were rescheduled and Charles did n't in fact do anything that day . |