Example sentences of "[vb past] not the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sought not the abolition of hired labour , private enterprise and the commodity market but the abolition of the many semi-feudal bonds which survived the Edict of 1861 ; and they sought the transfer of noble land into their own hands . |
| 2 | He painted not the general , but the particular ; not the nude , but the naked , thus bringing sex back in an especially embarrassing way . |
| 3 | And then she knew it was true as , under the hot Mediterranean sun , their love was sealed for eternity in that final last desperate burst of flame and fire that heralded not the end of a wonderful Majorcan day but the beginning of their life and love together . |
| 4 | He envisaged not the possibility but the certainty of a Labour Government — ‘ when the Labour Party sit on these benches ’ . |
| 5 | To my amazement , on locating the source of the sound I discovered not the cat but a hedgehog in the process of killing and devouring a blackbird . |
| 6 | What Sontag saw as the ‘ new sensibility ’ was clearly not a literary sensibility , but foregrounded a ‘ cooler art ’ with ‘ less content ’ ; it favoured not the novel , but music , dance , architecture , painting , sculpture . |
| 7 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 8 | We sat and watched not the coldness and menace of evil but a pantomime dame who was obviously too stupid and incompetent ever to pose a threat to goodness . |
| 9 | Then Sir Beaumains … rode all that ever he might ride through marshes and fields and great dales , that many times he plunged over the head in deep mires , for he knew not the way , but took the gainest way in that woodness … |
| 10 | When Tormey cites the art of acting as an example of representational behaviour , he was really talking about the style of acting first attributed to the famous English eighteenth-century actor David Garrick , acting which demanded not the expression of emotion but an accomplished technique by which ‘ natural ’ expressions of real life became distilled on stage by artifice . |
| 11 | As the DTI had failed to act when it had known of irregularities within the firm , did not the Government have a moral obligation towards the dupes ? |
| 12 | Did not the master ‘ gain an advantage out of the continuing relationship ’ with the sailors ? |
| 13 | Did not the road lead uphill all the way to Olympus ? |
| 14 | Many of those who rode along the line from Stockton to Darlington on that day ‘ did not the night before sleep a wink … |
| 15 | In view of that , did not the Secretary of State pause to conclude that whatever NATO may require , there is no requirement for the United Kingdom to have its own tactical air-to-surface missile ? |
| 16 | However they were threatened that if they did not the Abbey would be burnt down . |
| 17 | ‘ Did not the car , when it stopped here , pick up a fine young woman ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Did n't the company help at all ? ’ |
| 19 | And did n't , did n't the union question why they were taking money ? |
| 20 | Did n't the union question why they ? |
| 21 | ‘ Did n't the goddess Calypso promise Ulysses immortality if he stayed with her forever ? |
| 22 | Did n't the operation — did n't it work ? " |
| 23 | ’ Did n't the thief himself tell you anything , when you questioned him ? ’ |
| 24 | If it was good enough , why did n't the Government restart aid ? |
| 25 | Did n't the man care about that possibility ? |
| 26 | Did n't the man know ? |
| 27 | Did n't din did n't the man that came to collect the pools last night tell you ? |
| 28 | Paul was singing to himself and asking questions of the type children tend to , such as why were n't the birds all blown away during the storm , and why did n't the sea fill up with water with the stream going so hard ? |
| 29 | Veronica 's father was Lord Somebody-or-other , she reminded herself , and did n't the aristocracy go in for rather grand affairs ? |
| 30 | or was in , I do n't know and did n't the male er , lead ? du n no how you can read that without glasses , I ca n't |