Example sentences of "[verb] not the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the technical legal controversy has concerned not the more serious varieties of indecent assault but the more ambiguous forms , where the element of indecency is used to separate the sexual offence from the non-sexual . |
| 2 | But they made not the least reply . |
| 3 | Linnet had attended the wedding , of course , looking exquisite in dove-grey velvet with a swansdown hat and muff , her face calm and remote , betraying not the least flicker of anything which anyone could call unbecoming , even when she saw the bride , thin as a stick and hideously sallow , led to the altar dripping pearls and diamonds and a London-made gown with a train half a cathedral-aisle long . |
| 4 | He betrayed not the least surprise . |
| 5 | John Watts proved not the most able of administrators and when his term expired , charge of the Garden passed to Samuel Doody , an Apothecary with a London practice , who collected all manner of natural history specimens and was a prolific writer on the sciences . |
| 6 | They had known one another for five years and the accountant , Mr Costello , had not the least reason to think that Joyce was born elsewhere than Galway . |
| 7 | To watch them pretending not to know all the things about me which I take not the least trouble to conceal . |
| 8 | And although some of them were a lot less well-off than they had been , they still seemed to get away with most things , feeling not the least need to prove themselves , she supposed , like herself and Lizzie Braithwaite , and Maria Colclough , and Ethel Lord . |
| 9 | But I have not the least doubt that , if confronted by a practical demand , with his great gifts he will work in other fields with complete success . " |
| 10 | And as to you , we are — ’ remembering his diplomacy — ‘ we are good companions , but I have n't the least wish to remarry . ’ |