Example sentences of "[verb] not [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dexter 's interest lies not in gang warfare , but in the character of Peter Flood . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The speeches of ministers have reiterated the themes that it is not the job of government to solve as many problems as previously , that ministers should be more attentive to the interests of taxpayers when spending public money , that ‘ real ’ jobs will be created and sustained not by government subsidy but by workers making goods which people will buy , that the criterion of ‘ value for money ’ be applied to public-sector activities , and that the private sector should be encouraged because it creates the wealth which the public sector requires . |
| 4 | Thus , the District gained little direct financial benefit from increased enrolments as the capitation fee which branches paid to District funds was calculated not on student enrolment but on WEA membership . |
| 5 | The government agreed not to station security forces on Bougainville on condition that the BRA disbanded itself and surrendered its weapons and prisoners to an international peace-keeping force . |
| 6 | They may involve two or more companies , who tend to be related not by product type but rather by similar customer profits . |
| 7 | I wonder how many of Expotel 's customers are aware that Expotel 's recommendations are based not on hotel quality but on the self-interested payment up-front of this ‘ sweetener ’ , plus exclusive corporate rates ? |
| 8 | The senior Law Officer of the Crown , the Attorney-General , explained to the House that , on the question of the Shops Act 1950 , he had to make a decision based not on party politics but on the law . |
| 9 | While I can only give an average guide , a lot will depend not on pullet cost , but on the quality of the pullet you purchase and how well it has been reared . |
| 10 | Both Finnigan 's Smoothrite and Rust Not from Homestyle work on metal surfaces , and are available in aerosols |
| 11 | It is assumed that these are linked not to profit maximisation , but depend on the size of the enterprise . |
| 12 | In Russia we started not with War Communism but with the so-called New Economic Policy . |
| 13 | The choice of research tactics follows not from research doctrine , but from decisions in each case as to the best available techniques : the problem defines the methods used , not vice versa . |
| 14 | As can be seen in Table III , children who recovered were similar to both groups of the children who did not in sex distribution , age at initial evaluation and onset of constipation , stool frequency , percentage of patients with stool withholding , history of urinary tract infection , and stool retention . |
| 15 | This approach became part of the negotiations with the teachers ' unions , who did not in principle object to appraisal , but wanted to ensure that they obtained good conditions of service and an adequate pay increase before agreeing to it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The coach did not in fact crash and if he had remained on it he would have suffered no harm . |
| 18 | All babies need feeding and changing and there are not too many ways of doing it ; the range and subtlety of young babies ' gestures is restricted ( they do not for instance converse ) , and in response , mothers tend to simplify and exaggerate their own gestures . |
| 19 | Consumers do not in practice shop for credit outside their own country , they simply use their home-based credit cards to make purchases abroad . |
| 20 | European monetary system ; Germany promises not to raise interest rates but refuses to lower them . |
| 21 | This does not of necessity call for a middle way between the extremes of egalitarianism on the one hand and élitism on the other . |
| 22 | Both assumptions have been questioned and much evidence adduced to show that group politics does not in fact work in this way . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The sole justification for Mustakimzade 's argument as it stands appears to be that Taskopruzade does not in fact use either the term as in the case of Molla Fenari , or simply the term mufti , as in the case of Fahreddin Acemi , saying rather that " the headship of teaching and of fetva and the office of the kadilik fell ultimately to [ Molla Yegan ] alter Molla Shams al-Din al-Fenari " . |
| 25 | The changes which we hope to introduce relate not to subject content , or pedagogic style but to learned outcomes ; ie we wish to see pupils leaving school who have not simply assimilated and regurgitated ( with varying degrees of success ) packages of information , but have developed those skills and attitudes necessary for independent ‘ finding out ’ . |
| 26 | THE BEACH BOYS : Never Learn Not To Love aka Cease To Exist |