Example sentences of "not [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Yet reluctance to use the word " God " does not mean that Buddhists deny the reality of Mystery with a capital M. For they believe in " Nirvana " as not literally referring to nothingness but to the enlightenment attendant upon the laying aside of barriers to it .
2 When the Israelite desert tribes entered Canaan , they found a land not only flowing with milk and honey , but full of weeping and laughter in its religious rituals , quite different from anything they had known .
3 Like I said at the beginning , Rickenbacker do n't churn designs out lightly ; the Atlantis and Excalibur are the result of careful consideration , and if you 're looking for a guitar that 's not only brimming with personality but is eminently playable in just about any style , I 'd suggest you check this one out , fast …
4 Such gimmicks have helped to make Virgin 's upper class service tempting to business passengers , but Virgin knows the real business is done by men like this , and they 're not just looking at service but also cost .
5 Though by that time , he was not usually thinking of nourishment but the simple satisfaction of hunger .
6 We 're not simply talking about opening and closing in response to a stimulus then , this first stimulus has left the channels in a state in which they 're relatively unable to gate open .
7 I was n't absolutely brimming with confidence but there was nothing wrong with Seve 's tee-shot this time .
  Next page