Example sentences of "[verb] not the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They celebrate not the facts of nature , but the transforming power of atmosphere and momentary effects of light . |
| 2 | Like someone else 's religion , one is asked to accept the validity of its ideas on faith ; one has not the experience to test their factuality . |
| 3 | It is this phase where there are many failures because the size of task being addressed is large ; normally there has been a formal specification of the work to be done , and the technologist has not the experience nor the qualifications to carry the work through . |
| 4 | Has not the Government 's last remaining friend , the Governor of the Bank of England , now extinguished the Government 's last remaining claims to a pre-election recovery , and is it not the case that , having lost his support , the Government have now nothing left to lose but the election ? |
| 5 | There is no merit in R&D designing something that manufacturing has not the resources to produce efficiently . |
| 6 | ‘ He can not have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother . ’ |
| 7 | Has not the Minister discussed with the chairman of British Airways the very large order for American planes with American engines ? |
| 8 | Someone who has not the concept of age can not be expected to see someone as young or old . |
| 9 | ‘ A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated , has not the art of getting drunk . ’ |
| 10 | Drescher has not the pervasiveness of Wedgwood 's image of the kneeling slave , first designed for a medallion at the time of the 1788 petition campaign but afterwards widely translated to other formats . |
| 11 | Has not the experiment proved a disaster for vast numbers of national health service patients ? |
| 12 | I certainly do not doubt the sincerity of the right hon. Gentleman 's remarks , but throughout modern economic history , when any Government have sought to misdirect national resources in a manner that goes completely against the grain of the marketplace , has not the result of such a regional policy been exactly the opposite to what the right hon. Gentleman has sought to achieve ? |
| 13 | Importunity or threats , such as the testator has not the courage to resist , moral command asserted and yielded to for the sake of peace and quiet , or of escaping from distress of mind or social discomfort , these , if carried to a degree in which the free play of the testator 's judgment , discretion or wishes , is overborne , will constitute undue influence , though no force is either used or threatened . |
| 14 | And the young lady , alas , has not the strength . ’ |
| 15 | In the end Frodo does want to destroy the Ring but has not the strength . |
| 16 | Is not the Polaris fleet plagued with cracks to the nuclear reactor , and has not the game been given away by Mr. Reg Farmer , a former member of the Ministry of Defence safety of nuclear warships committee ? |
| 17 | He has not the Kleophrades Painter 's weight and power , but his grace has a spare strength . |
| 18 | Well , I wo n't say but that was fair enough , a pity he has not the key he needs to read it , it would give him pleasure . |
| 19 | Has not the testator , in fact , declared a trust in saying ‘ for her separate use ’ ? |
| 20 | Has not the time now come for us to leave the Exchange Rate Mechanism , at least until such time as German interest rates are reduced to a level compatible with the needs of the whole of the rest of Europe ? |
| 21 | Has not the time come , however , to evaluate the optimum pupil-teacher ratio for pupils at any given age , with a view to establishing it ? |
| 22 | Has not the time come for the Government to commit themselves unequivocally to legislate in the next Parliament so that those who wish to shop on Sunday and exercise their free choice to do so are enabled to do so by total deregulation of the law ? |
| 23 | Has not the time come at last — some of us have been saying this for a long time — for my right hon. Friend , or his successor , to consider seriously the alternative policy that many have advocated : administrative devolution , or short-term integration ? |
| 24 | And when the law actually penalises people who inflict punishment outside the law through sheer frustration with its inadequacies , has not the time come for judges to realise they are dealing with real-world situations and sentence accordingly ? |
| 25 | ‘ Has not the coachman come yet ? |
| 26 | The British experience was perceived by Michael Foot when in Opposition in the following way : ‘ I think one of the most serious threats to the power of the House of Commons is the notion which is growing up that you can have a meeting in Downing Street of the Executive and the CBI and the TUC who make an agreement that is binding and when it comes to the House of Commons the House of Commons has not the power … to tear that bargain apart ’ ( quoted in Grant 1977 , p. 169 ) . |
| 27 | She had chosen three hymns : ‘ Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth ’ , ‘ Ye Holy Angels Bright ’ and ‘ Now Thank We All Our God ’ . |
| 28 | She tapped , and walked in to find not the sitting-room she 'd expected , but a light , modern office . |
| 29 | His gift of salvation is for the whole world , it 's available , God willeth not the death of the sinner , but that all should come to repent . |
| 30 | Of course when the baths were made there were ladies days and gents days , mixed bathing was considered not the thing in these days , but it did come in in the twenty or the , or the late twenties . |