Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me that crack signifies not reassurance but youth and hopelessness . |
| 2 | For hardline leaders in East Germany and China , the dilution of party authority in Hungary and Poland represents not reform but treason , a betrayal that threatens to undermine their own legitimacy . |
| 3 | Oakeshott recognizes a morality inherent in the rule of law and suggests that to deliberate the jus of lex involves not deduction but a particular kind of moral consideration ; that the prescriptions of law ‘ should not conflict with a prevailing educated moral sensibility ’ of a people . |
| 4 | Another principle is that ‘ headship ’ , as seen in Jesus , means not domination but self-giving . |
| 5 | Yet the Japanese term normally used for the transfer , ishin , is more correctly translated as ‘ renovation , — a term which implies not retrospection but a sense of renewal and looking forward . |
| 6 | What I have to recognise by contrast is that even now James Joyce , born a hundred years ago , brings not unity but division , nor does this division merely reflect some such crude opposition as highbrow and lowbrow , or even informed and uninformed . |