Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pastel-coloured costumes were at once demure and provocative ; fitted tight from throat to hip , they clung to every line of the delicate , high-breasted figures , heightening the allure of slender shoulders , tiny waists and the swell of young Ranks ; below the waist , however , the gossamer-light , side-split skirts and billowing trousers of white silk shrouded legs and thighs in secrecy , and to Chuck and Joseph the exotic girls of Saigon seemed not to walk but to float gently beneath the tamarinds on the evening breeze . |
| 2 | Geographically the first phase of brooches tend not to duster in any particular region and are found dispersed over much of England . |
| 3 | A change of citizenship did not of course imply a divorce from the old country . |
| 4 | ‘ the kingdom of God cometh not with observation ’ — James Joyce to Lady Gregory |
| 5 | The results of a dosimetry investigation confirmed that a previously reported intake of plutonium had not in fact occurred . |
| 6 | In that first split-second , Angel One decided his only chance of survival lay not in defence , but in attack . |