Example sentences of "[v-ing] not [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | The satire " Novus regnat Salomon " attacks Innocent as the mercenary shepherd who abandons his flock to the wolf and sees " Salomon " as venal , loving not persons but their goods , and the poet Walter von der Vogelweide portrays Innocent as filling his chests with German silver and deplores his efforts to collect money for a crusade against the Albigensians . |
| 2 | Jannie was taking a benevolent interest , too , inviting not Bob but Tessa out to look at houses she had found for them in s.w.23 . |
| 3 | Nineteenth century Liberals used the idea of society as a biological organism to draw attention to the need for competition ( as between species ) , while twentieth century Liberals argued the reverse to justify greater collective provision , stressing not competition but the harmonious working of the organism as a whole . |
| 4 | Detectives , when they murmur ‘ bitter almonds ’ at the scene of the crime , are detecting not cyanide but benzaldehyde , which is the essential flavour of bitter almonds . |
| 5 | He was no doubt contemplating not futurity but baffled Eternity itself : a universal Revelation outside nature guaranteed by a Christ whom the laws of nature did not spare . |