Example sentences of "[verb] not in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter 's interest lies not in gang warfare , but in the character of Peter Flood . |
| 2 | The difference lies not in ideology , nor in what they have to offer for exchange , but in their unequal vulnerability to the disapproval of the United States , the IMF and the World Bank . |
| 3 | The solution to this problem lies not in legislation but in effective screening of potential surrogate mothers . |
| 4 | The complexity of [ 8 ] lies not in clause structure , but in noun phrase structure ( in this case it is the noun phrases that are italicised ) . |
| 5 | The power of the passage lies not in mots justes but in the evocation of ideas at once old and new , familiar in outline but strongly redefined in context : like ‘ stocks and stones ’ . |
| 6 | One of the problems with continuing education lies not in learning , but in unlearning . |
| 7 | I believe that the Second World War was a war that had to be won not in order to save Western modernity , or to ensure that individualist man would conquer collectivist man , but simply because Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history had ever seen . |
| 8 | I shall simply say that Lord Hailsham 's ‘ little ewe lamb ’ has not in practice proved to be the liberalising measure which he had hoped . |
| 9 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 10 | Gershuny ( 1982 ) reported that these have saved time for working-class households and challenged the widespread contrary belief , instanced by Bowlby ( 1984 ) , that technology has not in fact cut domestic labour . |
| 11 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 12 | The implication of the second sub-paragraph of Article 130R(5) therefore appears to be that although that provision gives the Community competence to negotiate international agreements relating to the protection of the environment , if the Community has not in fact exercised its powers internally , then Member States may continue to enter into international arrangements in their own right . |
| 13 | Much of this apparent reduction of paid labour has not in fact disappeared but simply been transferred to the unpaid domestic sphere . |
| 14 | I did n't expect it to hit me quite so hard , but when I think about it it 's because I 'm so bloody sad that the last fourteen years were spent in dying not in living . |
| 15 | Racial nationalists saw the Jews in Manichean terms : they were the ultimate enemy , an anti-race derived from the mixing of incompatible elements and which had originated not in Palestine , but in the Khazar empire of southern Russia . |
| 16 | The first , which is the simpler and the one used not in Northern Ireland but in the Republic , is to sort all of Paisley 's papers into " sub-parcels " , one for each second-preference candidate , and then to give to each such candidate a number of votes calculated in accordance with the following formula : the surplus divided by the total number of transferable votes , multiplied by the number of papers in each sub-parcel . |
| 17 | A second Acropolis plaque , with a warrior ( fig. 95 ) is very close in style both to the Athena-plaque and to Euthymides 's red-figure , and is painted not in vase-painter 's technique but partly in outline , mainly in brown wash outlined in black , like the Therm on metopes of a century earlier ( above , p. 13 ) ; only the cloak knotted round the waist is black with incised folds . |
| 18 | However , using NOT in front of the testable condition would not reverse the action . |
| 19 | it opens the door , it opens the door , that 's why both my younger girls , I mean Diane 's a different policy any way cos she wants to be a , but with the other two , who worked interest in computers and when they left college I gave them crash course in , in typing not in shorthand because they do n't they do n't need shorthand nowadays , |
| 20 | And if the client 's needs suggested the former , he would probably be advised to invest not in shares but in debentures . |
| 21 | Surprisingly , the most extreme curriculum has been adopted not in Chicago or Detroit but in Portland , Oregon 's sleepy capital . |
| 22 | Such an exercise is , therefore , best done not in isolation but in co-operation with the other churches . |
| 23 | Bonfires are built not in people 's backyards but on the streets outside their doors . |
| 24 | It was written not in Latin , but in the Romance language . |
| 25 | Furthermore , there was a tendency for many decisions to be made not in proximity to the camps but in UNRWA 's headquarters in Vienna . |
| 26 | In I Thessalonians 1:5 Paul reminds his readers how the gospel was first preached to them : ‘ it came not in word only , but in power and in the Holy Spirit and in full assurance . ’ |
| 27 | this would have meant anything to them , then , as they drank their Nescafé , which in those days came not in granules in jars but in powder in tins with brown , cream and white labels : tins which cost 2 s .6 d . |
| 28 | Thus , as we have noted above , agreement on norms ( as consequence of close-knit and stable social patterns ) results not in uniformity of usage within a community , but on agreement on a pattern of stable differentiation . |
| 29 | But equally important was the proof — measured not in words but hard cash — to Oxfam and Christian Aid that the magazine was valued by others , not just at home but , astonishingly , five or ten thousand miles away as well . |
| 30 | Suppose that what is wanted is large-scale mapping of the city of Leeds , it is likely that snapshots of Ordnance Survey mapping will have been preserved far more frequently , for the practical purposes of town planners etc. , but they will have been preserved not in libraries but in planning offices , and will they have been preserved after the date when they were needed there ? |