Example sentences of "[vb past] not [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I referred not to this one but to the principle . |
| 2 | Strangely enough these stemmed not from any hostility towards Doctor Who the concept all three were thoroughly supportive of the format — only from reservations Wilson and Newman had about the way Verity Lambert and David Whitaker were interpreting their prodigy . |
| 3 | Cavaillès developed these ideas into a theory of science as such , which , he argued , changed not through empirical discovery but through the theoretical reworking of its own concepts in the ‘ pure ’ sciences . |
| 4 | In reality , of course , the fascist variant of ‘ charismatic leadership ’ — there are obvious parallels in the Mussolini cult — was not only superimposed on existing bureaucratic power , but created new , extensive apparatuses of bureaucratic administration , and led not to diminished but to massively increased bureaucratic interference in all spheres of daily life . |
| 5 | Leith shook hands with him , but cared not at all for the way he ogled her the whole time . |
| 6 | She then discovered that she cared not at all for the dangerous glint that suddenly appeared in his eyes as he stared down into her still blush-pinkened skin . |
| 7 | ‘ The play suffered not from wrong direction , but from wrong production , ’ he maintains and firmly lays the fault at the door of the H. M. Tennent organization . |
| 8 | One of the explanations for the dolphin 's superb streamlining seems to be that while they are swimming their skin surface shifts in folds or ripples , caused not by muscular action but as a response to changes in pressure on different parts of the body . |
| 9 | Or perhaps I ought to say it was her spirit , since it resembled not at all any portrait that could have been painted . |
| 10 | The national independence of both Germany and Italy came not through agrarian revolution , but through the force of arms of established powers . |
| 11 | To quote Bernard Pares , a founding father of the study of the revolution in Britain , writing in 1939 , ‘ The cause of the [ tsarist ] ruin came not at all from below , but from above . |
| 12 | Jesus said he came not for such ‘ virtuous ’ people but to give hope to those who were aware of their need of God . |
| 13 | For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man : but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost . ’ ( v. 20/21 ) . |
| 14 | The most effective ideological influences came not from evangelical social reform but from more complex processes by which elements similar to those of the ruling ideology were produced from deeply felt experiences of the class itself . |
| 15 | The material which Ivanov accumulated and interpreted came not from closeted sources but from publicly available journals , technical newspapers and magazines , and house publications such as British Aerospace News . |
| 16 | In continental Europe , however , the union assault came not from workplace-based craft organisations but from centralised and more politicised trade unions . |
| 17 | At least he had read the available documents , but his memorandum " differed not at all , in essence , from decisions taken by secret committees in the reign of Nicholas I " . |
| 18 | In his lecture ‘ Le Cubisme écartelé ’ given at the Section d'Or on 11 October and later added to Les Peintres Cubistes when the book was already in proof , Apollinaire divided Cubism into four categories , Orphism being the most advanced : ‘ It is the art of painting new harmonies out of elements borrowed not from visual reality but created entirely by the artist and endowed by him with a powerful presence . |
| 19 | Much of the contact-making happened not at diplomatic functions but in the marketplace , he recalls . |
| 20 | The strategy consisted not of ministerial diktat but the progressive application of pressure on LEAs to ensure that the school curriculum in their areas was in line with a real or imagined consensus about what pupils should learn at school . |
| 21 | Even her brothers were kind , though embarrassed and Clara , as she sat there picking endlessly at the fringe of the tablecloth , had a vision of some other world where violent emotion could be a thing of beauty , where even tears could be admitted and not ignored , where good taste in tomb stones consisted not in cheap restrained economy of design , fabric , and word , but of marble angels wildly grieving . |
| 22 | Fred and Wilma , Barney and Betty — these stock East Coast American sit-com couples provided satirical laffs a-plenty in their moderne Stone Age netherworld , all mod cons dependent not on trendy plastic but granite , and powered not by supa-clean electricity but , well , pterodactyls , usually . |
| 23 | This time there was no mistake made , he was known , and killed not for another , but for himself . ’ |
| 24 | It may be argued that they had a particular point to make about regiments and an anxiety to see funds spent not in one direction , but another . |
| 25 | In the Commons tonight , Jacques Arnold , Conservative MP for Gravesham , through whose constituency the line will run , said the Government had wanted to make a statement about the route on Wednesday but decided not to after Labour threatened to withdraw all cooperation if the statement was made the day after the Budget . |
| 26 | Jones further argues that if central government believes it can not or should not perform a particular public function , ‘ it would be better if it decentralised not to technocratic quangos but to directly elected local governments ’ . |
| 27 | The frontages were the work of the architects and they worked not in new styles but in revival styles — Gothic , classical , Renaissance , baroque — to comfort and reassure those concerned about the newness of it all . |
| 28 | The lych-gate creaked and left its prickly signature of rust upon the palm ( I 'll get it fixed , Ma 'm ! ) ; the bell rang not at all unless obliquely pressed by a nor'-nor'-westerly thumb . |
| 29 | Like the Urban Institute , founded in Washington in 1968 after racial riots across America , it thrived not on private philanthropy but on research contracts from the government . |
| 30 | The unexpected element in the result , however , was that second place went not to Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki but to Stanislaw Tyminski , an emigré businessman who had no previous political experience and was virtually unknown until the last weeks of the campaign . |