Example sentences of "[vb base] not [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wasps also make nests filled with combs of hexagonal cells , but they build not with wax but with paper . |
| 2 | The kings were not simply put on their thrones by churchmen ; they were heirs and successors of barbarian chiefs ; they ruled by force and fear not by ideals ; the fact of politics not the ideals of churchmen were the stuff of their lives . |
| 3 | Business-to-Business Marketing — an intensive five-day course designed specifically for marketers in organisations which sell not to consumers but to other firms , government bodies and not-for-profit organisations , where the buyer is generally a professional and purchasing is frequently a group decision . |
| 4 | Geographically the first phase of brooches tend not to duster in any particular region and are found dispersed over much of England . |
| 5 | New MPs tend not to pair and will attend most sittings , he said . |
| 6 | Established companies , concentrating on defending what they already have , tend not to counter-attack when a newcomer challenges them . |
| 7 | They focus not on areas of need but on areas where they want to be seen to be giving , and that 's usually where the spotlight happens for the moment to be falling . |
| 8 | A high proportion of us die not at home , but in hospitals , clinics and special institutions for the terminally ill . |
| 9 | It requires that we look not to things , not to the world , but instead to the validity of what we know about things or the world … . |
| 10 | The problems usually lie not with emptiness , which can be filled , but with the fixed building created by a designer who thought he was being terribly clever but whose design has hindered events ever since . |
| 11 | Such accusations lie not with counselling , but with a kind of primitive logic which associates pain with whatever is most closely at hand . |
| 12 | Rolle suggests that this is begun in thought of the four last things : death , for " we lyve bot in a poynt " in " uncertente of owre endyng " ; judgement , when we account for our use of time " and ilk tyme we thynk not on God , we may cownt it als we have tynt " ( 4.95.19 – 22 , 38 – 9 ) ; heaven , the joy which is " mare any may tell " ; and hell , where also is burning in fire ( 4.96.46 – 7 , 54 ) . |
| 13 | The thrust of these discursive creations is control ; control not through denial or prohibition , but through ‘ production ’ , through imposing a grid of definition on the possibilities of the body . |
| 14 | Employers ' preferences refer not to personality characteristics developed by a specialized , occupational socializing agency — the school — but to life-cycle characteristics . |
| 15 | Remember not to ground your club at the address position as this will incur a two-stroke penalty in stroke-play or the loss of a hole in match-play . |
| 16 | Both Finnigan 's Smoothrite and Rust Not from Homestyle work on metal surfaces , and are available in aerosols |
| 17 | The single-shelled molluscs feed not with tentacles within the shell like the brachiopods but with a radula , a ribbon-shaped tongue , covered with rasping teeth . |
| 18 | Ma was an expert knitter , a knitter by feel not by sight of pattern , a measurer by holding up , by arm-length , not by inches and tapes . |
| 19 | Upon a network of metals , lighted by great arc lamps , the workers here deal not with packages but with trucks . |
| 20 | Such arrangements are not conducive to rational problem-solving ; solutions turn not on principle and reasoned argument , but on compromises , accommodation and , on occasion , rather sordid ‘ wheeling and dealing ’ . |
| 21 | On a personal note , may I say that when I want to hear the Fourth Symphony for pleasure , which is relatively speaking often , I turn not to Munch or Dutoit but to an old tape I have from 1954 of the much underrated Albert Wolff conducting the Swedish Radio Orchestra . |
| 22 | Jacob 's talk of blessing invites us to step out of the demon myth and fairy story , back into a land with which we have grown familiar , where human beings bump not into demons , but into God himself . |
| 23 | Try not to arch the back during this exercise . |
| 24 | And since she had no idea where to go yet , even if she could get off the island , the only course possible was to take things a step at a time and try not to rail against a spiteful fate . |
| 25 | I try not to look , but you can see her boobies and that . |
| 26 | ‘ Try not to distress yourself , ’ said Melissa . |
| 27 | A library is where you go not to look for books but to consult an index or catalogue . |
| 28 | Sunday fare not on Lancs menu |
| 29 | They differ not in respect of reaction patterns but in the economic characteristics of the market concerned , and it is a matter of fact , not logic , to decide which model is appropriate for any particular market under study . |
| 30 | It was not in their financial interest to provoke or prolong strikes or to create bitterness and resentment when trade was brisk and labour not in demand . |