Example sentences of "[verb] not [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The approach taken by the EC is to impose not uniform standards but essential standards . |
| 2 | This , in turn , strengthened the image which Franco wished to convey of the rising , the war and his nascent regime , as representing not individual interests , but the national interest . |
| 3 | Some call him a good bread-and-butter player , but he has not apparent weaknesses . |
| 4 | Wigan , going for their 20th successive victory at St Helens tomorrow , have the opposite problem , playing so well individually and collectively that their coach , John Monie , has not enough places , especially with Martin Dermott and Steve Hampson fit again , to satisfy demand . |
| 5 | We must think of the nervous system encoding the perceived world ; and in trying to understand this process we should consider not individual spikes but their potentially infinite combinations . |
| 6 | But women were commonly considered not full members of society . |
| 7 | Unlike the institutions of art which help produce cultural objects , the education system produces not cultural objects , but consumers of art to match the cultural products . |
| 8 | The apparently fragmented organization of the state apparatus represents not polyarchic pressures but rather the outcome of intra-state conflicts or the deliberate fragmentation and disorganisation of policy-making by state officials . |
| 9 | the thing that annoys me most is that , the amount of bad memories people have , I mean not bad memories as in bad thoughts , but bad |
| 10 | Lord have mercy upon us , and lay not these sins to our charge . " |
| 11 | She said it because Rory was in her mind , and he had told her he lived not many miles from Belleeks , at a little crossroads in the lower hills . |
| 12 | In the Transcaucasus a similar mixture of the threat of external intervention and ‘ Great Russian chauvinism ’ produced not dissimilar effects . |
| 13 | No , she says not , she says not all men but she says a lot of them have inbred to them that they ca n't cry and and all that . |
| 14 | But let not these requests from a young planter discourage you , my dear cousin . |
| 15 | ( A statement with which it should be said not all Christians today would necessarily agree , but let us grant him that . ) |
| 16 | They spun round and discovered Jennifer Gristy , who was trying to look invisible against the cliff face not ten yards from where they stood . |
| 17 | The group communicated their ideas to the public by collaborating on A Pocket Dictionary of Foreign Words Which Have Entered the Vocabulary of the Russian Language , a work whose purpose was to discuss not foreign words per se but rather the social and political phenomena to which many of them related . |
| 18 | A foreign traveller during the Elizabethan period wrote " The world affords not such inns as England hath , either for food and cheap entertainment or for attendance on passengers , yea even in very poor villages " . |
| 19 | During the trial , the judge ordered not guilty verdicts to be entered on two of three counts the lawyer had faced , of false accounting and of procuring the execution of a valuable security . |
| 20 | A jury returned not guilty verdicts on two charges against the former deputy council leader over car park deals in Liverpool . |
| 21 | Now I know not all players are like this . |
| 22 | Yes , stool making , you know I 've got a stool here , I made that stool over there ages ago for me daughter-in-law and this one I can not get it right I 've , I 've , it 's , it 's , I 'm trying I 've got to undo it again there , it 's not right , I think it is because the cord 's too thick , it 's a very thick cord and I 've not got enough stitches you know not enough strands on it , but I 'm gon na do it , it 'll be done before Christmas I 've got to do it otherwise |
| 23 | Will followed not two paces behind . |
| 24 | They 're staying not three leagues from this village . ’ |
| 25 | an individual or as now as a , a Neighbourhood Watch , although I mean it 's not the main function of Neighbourhood Watch to do not noisy parties , but it could do , then make a complaint to Newark and District Council |
| 26 | The preservation of the principle of ‘ insurance ’ was a clear throw-back to the days of Lloyd George and , as he explained in a radio broadcast , his ‘ Plan for Britain' was ‘ based on the contributory principle of giving not free allowances to all from the State , but giving benefits as of right in virtue of contributions made by the insured persons themselves ’ . |
| 27 | She needed not empty lands but fur , and the natives were the best suppliers of this fur . |
| 28 | Attempts to survey political opinions came rather later , though they did have not dissimilar aspirations to those of the market surveyors ; however , they were rather less well conducted . |
| 29 | Not all dogs are dangerous entails Not all animals are dangerous 2 . |
| 30 | But in the private-eye story such scenes become not gentle probings but confrontations . |