Example sentences of "[verb] not [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has not the Kleophrades Painter 's weight and power , but his grace has a spare strength . |
| 2 | Even if there iss n't a litter basket where you are , ’ she pointed out , ‘ you can always put paper and things in your pocket until you get to one . |
| 3 | Thom has n't a kind word for either of them . |
| 4 | Apart from that , he has n't a driving licence , and he was at school on Wednesday afternoon . ’ |
| 5 | BTW has n't the Norwich game been moved to Monday for SKY ? |
| 6 | ‘ Has n't the Herr General been told ? ’ |
| 7 | As for the WRI files , I 've yet to come across a shareware program that has n't an ASCII file as well as a WRI file — and you do n't HAVE to print it . |
| 8 | However his second Service is marked by a peculiarly English innovation : the introduction of passages for solo voice and organ , which plays not a continuo role but polyphony to which the voice doubles a part or supplies an otherwise missing one : |
| 9 | Mr Falt could be forgiven his smirk when , on election day , he was able to report not a body count but a remarkable turnout of voters . |
| 10 | However , the most striking difference is that it would see not a motion picture , but a succession of still frames , rather like a slide show . |
| 11 | In the rest of this chapter we examine not the trial stage , but the one prior to that — the search . |
| 12 | Three years at a nice school in Vienna , not too liberated , but at the same time not a convent school . |
| 13 | Section 25 of The Children Act requires local authorities to make an application for a secure accommodation in the family proceedings court not the youth court . |
| 14 | The World Cup will inevitably become not a sporting event , but a completely commercial package — no longer the peasant game , but sanitised , trussed up and priced for corporate consumption . |
| 15 | ‘ The time is ripe to abandon not the rank structure but the tendency to impart fashionable management theories which are not necessarily appropriate to policing and which only confuse supervisors throughout the service . |
| 16 | A weeping standard achieves a different form by having not a bush type but a rambler budded into the top of the stem , from where the long flexible rambler stems hang and drape down like a floral curtain . |
| 17 | This ought to go in the paper Mary , not boot not the car boot . |
| 18 | Instead , the logical policy is to tax consumption , at a rate which reflects not the disposal cost of a good but the costs which would be inflicted on society if it were illegally dumped . |
| 19 | I felt even readier when I saw not a Gharrgoyle insight at Gharr 's table . |
| 20 | And on a wider scale , theorists maintained that life amounted to the survival of the fittest : did not the Beesley hypothesis prove that the ‘ fittest ’ were merely the most cunning ? |
| 21 | ‘ Did n't the goddess Calypso promise Ulysses immortality if he stayed with her forever ? |
| 22 | Why did n't the word standard get put in the place of quality we can have standard assurance as opposed to quality assurance ? |
| 23 | Erm but did n't the peasant culture already have erm sort of elements of collectivization alread I mean which the Communist Party could |
| 24 | Was he aware of the challenge he was presenting to the world he had just left and , in any case , did n't the role reversal situation feel slightly strange ? |
| 25 | No I do n't need the rail , I do n't the rail money in er Cos I presume if you pay the seven quid you 'll be more or less committed then to paying the I 'll I 'll get the rail money a bit later than . |
| 26 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 27 | ‘ One can only speculate what would have happened had this not been done but I seriously doubt if we would be meeting here today had not the capital infusion been made in 1990 and this plan put into place and well executed . |
| 28 | ‘ The unfortunate creditors , it was obvious from the nature of the cases , could never have recovered the debts , had not the County Court been established . ’ |
| 29 | When she goes to parties she will wear not a party frock but a summer frock with a bow at the neck and a tie round the waist . |
| 30 | We 've not a reading man among us , ’ said Lucie dejectedly . |