Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] not [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Reproductive success , we now know , and Darwin did n't of course , means passing on your genes . |
| 32 | The coach did not in fact crash and if he had remained on it he would have suffered no harm . |
| 33 | The gifts of which evidence was given were in favour of the plaintiff 's children and in the circumstances did not in substance conflict … with his intention to benefit the plaintiff . |
| 34 | British concerns do not of course merely consist of such generalities . |
| 35 | Popular movements did not of course remain outside the influence of market forces . |
| 36 | Companies do not of course have to wait until the Appointed Day . |
| 37 | Most listed companies do not at present use their non-executives in the precise ways Cadbury recommends . |
| 38 | Further deployments ( with American crews ) were not ruled out — though Washington did not in practice take up this option . |
| 39 | The diocese does n't at present pay married deacons , and Jane Lloyd ( who is married ) is paid by the National Health Service . |
| 40 | Unfortunately confidence in this practice was somewhat sapped when the House of Lords decided that , if the officer of the company who certified the transfer did so fraudulently and for his own purposes when sufficient share certificates had not in fact been lodged , the company was not liable . |
| 41 | Furthermore , the Committee does not in fact know how the public perceives the ambit of the law of rape , nor did it attempt to find out . |
| 42 | This girl had not of course been told of the scandal of the boss 's daughter , and she willingly went to the tall cabinet , found the card , read it to Alice who memorised it and ran out . |
| 43 | It might seem strange that rapes such as these carry a lower penalty than a Category 2 case in which the defendant threatens violence against one party with the aim of securing intercourse with another , but where no violence is perpetrated and sexual intercourse does not in fact take place . |
| 44 | After doing this several times in a two-seater during training , the student may find both that applying full opposite rudder will stop the spin and that the glider does not in fact re-stall again even if the stick is kept back . |
| 45 | A commonly held example of such an error comes not from neuroscience but from genetics , where for a long time there was a rather simple-minded assumption that the physiology and behaviour of an organism ( its phenotype ) could be arbitrarily divided into two components , one given by the genes , the other by the environment . |
| 46 | Geographically the first phase of brooches tend not to duster in any particular region and are found dispersed over much of England . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Mourners tried not to cry yesterday , but most failed . |
| 51 | It was a body shaped not by exercise machines and aerobics gyms , but by hard endeavour and an active life . |
| 52 | The pastel-coloured costumes were at once demure and provocative ; fitted tight from throat to hip , they clung to every line of the delicate , high-breasted figures , heightening the allure of slender shoulders , tiny waists and the swell of young Ranks ; below the waist , however , the gossamer-light , side-split skirts and billowing trousers of white silk shrouded legs and thighs in secrecy , and to Chuck and Joseph the exotic girls of Saigon seemed not to walk but to float gently beneath the tamarinds on the evening breeze . |
| 53 | McEniff prefers not to talk figures but he is clearly a wealthy man . |
| 54 | A change of citizenship did not of course imply a divorce from the old country . |
| 55 | The new group did not in fact achieve its target of 100,000 pledged supporters and had faded away by March . |
| 56 | In the simplest terms , these can be thought of as particles which at the moment do not in fact exist — but one day might . |
| 57 | Their hypothesis was that the apparent merger of words of the MEAT and the MATE classes ( see 3.3.1 ) in contemporary Belfast vernacular had not in fact taken place . |
| 58 | Although " this offer has been accepted by Marshal Tito " , it had " subsequently been discovered that these troops had not in fact entered Austria … it was possible to turn them over to Marshal Tito in complete formation , and prevention of infiltration into Austria was essential for operational reasons " . |
| 59 | The murderous instincts of the sex war lead not to union but to a fragmentation which destroys the ability to comprehend life on any normal level , |
| 60 | Salvation comes not from attachment to one 's own past , but from controlling it in favour of a higher goal . |