Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] not [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old crocodile was smelling hook not bait . |
| 2 | She desperately needs security not love and this is what Mitch offers her and the young men whom she likes so much do not . |
| 3 | British Rail needs modernisation not privatisation . ’ |
| 4 | Thomas Linehan of the IDA stated in court that a fencing contractor had been warned by pickets at the dump , one carrying a sign reading ‘ We want justice not asbestos ’ , not to go on the site or there would be trouble . |
| 5 | ‘ MAKE PEACE NOT WAR ! ’ chorused the boys . |
| 6 | Her hands dropped and she surveyed the company , who , without exception , showed concern not condemnation . |
| 7 | Copyright protects expression not idea . |
| 8 | But to talk like this is to fall into the trap mentioned above of emphasising maintenance not mission . |
| 9 | ‘ Make love not war ’ is held to be meaningless except that it is a convenient mutual treaty by which humanity favours co-operation and survival , rather than dangerous destruction . |
| 10 | He deserves contempt not respect and his ability to handle further cases as serious as this should be looked at by the Lord Chancellor 's office . |
| 11 | For them , leadership means loneliness not partnership . ’ |
| 12 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |
| 13 | I noticed he said doctor not surgeon , which made me wonder if he was really up to it . |
| 14 | Criminality is no more the fault of the offender than illness is the fault of the invalid , and both require treatment not blame . |
| 15 | Defending charges which range from insider trading to more obscure practices like stock parking and failure to comply with statutory regulations , those indicted in New York and London have become players in a wider drama , witnesses to a bigger crime in which business ethics were corrupted by a decade which praised money-making not morality . |
| 16 | Alcuin wrote to Aethelred , probably in 791 , expressing affection for him and urging him to display kindness not cruelty and reason not anger in his deeds , and to speak truth not falsehood , but the sack of Lindisfarne by Vikings in June 793 ( ASC D , s.a. 793 ) provided a shocked and outraged Alcuin with an opportunity to declaim against the evils of Northumbrian society , as he saw them , and the shortcomings of the king himself in a letter to Aethelred and his nobles . |