Example sentences of "[vb -s] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new frontier for firms like BP , Statoil , Amoco and Pennzoil lies not on land but under the Caspian Sea . |
| 2 | Dexter 's interest lies not in gang warfare , but in the character of Peter Flood . |
| 3 | The difference lies not in ideology , nor in what they have to offer for exchange , but in their unequal vulnerability to the disapproval of the United States , the IMF and the World Bank . |
| 4 | The solution to this problem lies not in legislation but in effective screening of potential surrogate mothers . |
| 5 | The complexity of [ 8 ] lies not in clause structure , but in noun phrase structure ( in this case it is the noun phrases that are italicised ) . |
| 6 | One of the problems with continuing education lies not in learning , but in unlearning . |
| 7 | Psychological research on human thinking suggests two alternative views of the machinery of the mind ; one is that the mental representations and cognitive processes are abstract , language-like forms manipulated by rules , and an alternative is that they are mental models whose structure corresponds not to language but to states of affairs in the world . |
| 8 | The Conservative government has not of course been passive in the process of restructuring the social bases of electoral choice . |
| 9 | We are fortunate in that the rabbit population has not to date found us , although in 1983 we had to provide rabbit guards to comply with grant conditions , which were hideous white twists of plastic . |
| 10 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 11 | The profession has not to date , unlike the world of venture capital , perceived any practical advantages to be obtained from their use . |
| 12 | I shall simply say that Lord Hailsham 's ‘ little ewe lamb ’ has not in practice proved to be the liberalising measure which he had hoped . |
| 13 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 14 | Gershuny ( 1982 ) reported that these have saved time for working-class households and challenged the widespread contrary belief , instanced by Bowlby ( 1984 ) , that technology has not in fact cut domestic labour . |
| 15 | Though Xorandor resigns himself to his fate , he tells the children a secret : he has not in fact come from Mars at all but is a member of a race that has been living on Earth for millions of years , communicating over vast distances through radio pulses in binary code . |
| 16 | The implication of the second sub-paragraph of Article 130R(5) therefore appears to be that although that provision gives the Community competence to negotiate international agreements relating to the protection of the environment , if the Community has not in fact exercised its powers internally , then Member States may continue to enter into international arrangements in their own right . |
| 17 | Much of this apparent reduction of paid labour has not in fact disappeared but simply been transferred to the unpaid domestic sphere . |
| 18 | It refers not to power but to authority , and what I think he means is that although a woman can make good and wise judgements , she can not be the arbiter of that goodness or wisdom . |
| 19 | Clause 15 of the partnership agreement stated : " in the event of a partnership being [ so determined ] the salaried partner undertakes not to practice within the practice area … " , the practice area being defined . |
| 20 | Had a word with Vic about the script and he says not to worry but they always say that at this stage , do n't they ? |
| 21 | Also many teachers of English succumbed to a kind of vitalism , a muddled belief that children 's acquisition of language skills depends not on craft and knowledge , but upon a living , spontaneous response to their reading and to their own experiences . |
| 22 | Most Romantic poetry depends not on statement but on suggestion and metaphor , whether concise , concrete and verbal , as in Keats and Hopkins , or diffuse , abstracted and structural , as in Shelley and Wordsworth . |
| 23 | Incompetence ( or incapacity ) in a child , it should be noted , depends not on age but on maturity and the capacity to understand what is involved in any decision . |
| 24 | ‘ the kingdom of God cometh not with observation ’ — James Joyce to Lady Gregory |
| 25 | Thus , as we have noted above , agreement on norms ( as consequence of close-knit and stable social patterns ) results not in uniformity of usage within a community , but on agreement on a pattern of stable differentiation . |
| 26 | In that case the property passes not upon appropriation but when the other party 's assent is subsequently given . |
| 27 | Moral philosophy , then , deals not with man 's ability to ‘ represent ’ in perception , but with what Hobbes calls the ‘ motions of the mind ’ — desire , aversion , love , and benevolence . |
| 28 | For instance , when poor forms part of an identifying phrase with liar it is natural that its notion of DEFICIENT should most readily be understood to mean a deficiency in the matter of lying ; when a speaker chooses not to use poor attributively but in the predicative construction then a natural inference is that he or she intends the notion DEFICIENT to be taken in the way more typical of human beings in general , that is referring to their material resources . |
| 29 | McEniff prefers not to talk figures but he is clearly a wealthy man . |
| 30 | To Mr Milosz , literature 's dignity resides not in politics but in a frankly metaphysical attempt to bridge awe and horror , to name the sorrow of mankind . |