Example sentences of "[verb] not [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The COB Rules generally regulate not investment business as such but only regulated business ( see page 22 above ) . |
| 2 | I mean not Bronze Age , or whatever , and a calf was eating the grass on the top as though — well , as though it did n't matter . ’ |
| 3 | The classic case of private property would than become not home ownership but the ownership of somebody else 's home . |
| 4 | The main marketing problem was rationing not price competitiveness . |
| 5 | Count Raymond dared not risk battle against Richard 's massive army ; nor did the pleas for help which he sent to King Philip meet with any response . |
| 6 | Nonconformity did not will migration into the towns nor the migration out again to the suburbs but it did meet the challenges presented by these mammoth social changes . |
| 7 | IN THE design- and style-conscious Eighties , John Denison was an architect who did not court publicity or revel in the limelight . |
| 8 | She did not court disobedience or fuss them by calling . |
| 9 | We did not time onset of respiration relative to cord clamping but many infants in the regulated group were already crying . |
| 10 | Overall , although readers were well aware that their papers were relatively biased compared to television and although they rated television as much more useful for providing information about issues , they did not rate television much more useful in helping them decide how to vote . |
| 11 | Sara did not chop parsley . |
| 12 | If we did not programme computers correctly , they would also get very confused . |
| 13 | Conversely , lower achievers who do not segment time into past , present and future ( time is now ) will write down only one or two goals . |
| 14 | Most anglers who do not night fish settle for either evening or morning , rarely both . |
| 15 | Land Rovers do not self centre very much because in common with most beam axled four wheel drive vehicles they do not have much of a caster angle on the front axle . |
| 16 | Do not resheath needles after use . |
| 17 | However , the argument that women do not image Christ ( or God ) continues to be used to exclude women from ordained leadership in the Church . |
| 18 | sgt wilko does a remarkable job — as for my constant hyping of frank — see that as norw. patriotism — i do not value wilko out from his ( non- ) use of frank — managing a club is a lot more than that … |
| 19 | ‘ It may surprise you to learn that , despite your low opinion of my character , I do not number kidnapping among my hobbies , Caroline , ’ he assured her , his voice ominously calm . |
| 20 | There is also a small possibility of infection via breast milk , and in the developed world doctors recommend that women with HIV do not breast feed . |
| 21 | ( The medical/technical descriptions are what I understood the doctors to say not text-book definitions ) . |
| 22 | He does not court publicity having witnessed other ministers who were tipped for the top and never made it . |
| 23 | It does not debar citizens of the Republic of Ireland or of the Commonwealth from membership and election of these is not unknown . |
| 24 | A brickie does not college N B Qs he needs to build his first house and first novel and immediately becoming an international best seller . |
| 25 | Does not business investment , of which manufacturing investment is a part , remain extremely high ? |
| 26 | Managing director or chairman does not rate capitals . |
| 27 | The brochure produced by the Musée de Arts Décoratifs in Paris , for example , invokes not design history but nostalgia : ‘ The decorative arts museum plays the role of the background memory of the family ’ [ sic ] . |
| 28 | The children , again , have collected sheep dung for liquid tomato feed , and nettles and comfrey , essentially as fertiliser of course ( with the new pesticide lays , it is ironically illegal to use sprays like rhubarb or nettles or comfrey , that have not Ministry clearance ) . |