Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fires were bonfires and the bells told not of danger but of joy . |
| 2 | That the outlaws had not in fact appeared was due to the violence of the storm and to the message which that very evening they received by smoke signal . |
| 3 | However , this presumption can be rebutted in particular cases where it can be shown that , even in a business situation , the parties do not in fact want to make an enforceable contract . |
| 4 | The gifts of which evidence was given were in favour of the plaintiff 's children and in the circumstances did not in substance conflict … with his intention to benefit the plaintiff . |
| 5 | But even in the case of such an Act , if there are superadded provisions which attach to non-payment consequences other than a bare liability to be sued , there can be no justification for refusing to have regard to those consequences and to consider whether the existence of the provisions creating them has placed the payer under such pressure that the payments have not in truth been voluntary . |
| 6 | But only so far as this : that the Pioneers did not in fact succeed in creating the Manufacturing Society as a Co-operative . |