Example sentences of "[verb] not [noun sg] but [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me that crack signifies not reassurance but youth and hopelessness . |
| 2 | For in practice there was little validity in the distinction : the nationalist pursued not culture but power , and above all the power of the State , which , once won , it was thought , would then protect a national culture . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If only there remained some sort of plan of the former layout ; but it could hardly have been anticipated when the conversion was begun that a modern miller would be the buyer , who proposed to grind not corn but electricity . |
| 5 | Fur the modernists , on the other hand , history seemed not progress but nightmare , and the clock itself a threat . |
| 6 | Bourdieu wished to retain what we have learnt from structural analysis , and yet to mitigate its objectivist implications by emphasizing that such structures produce not rules but dispositions , and underlie not determinacy but strategy . |
| 7 | I saw that despite his good looks Syl was a little too short and a little too fat , that when he went about his garden stripped to bathing trunks he aroused not desire but embarrassment . |
| 8 | Detectives , when they murmur ‘ bitter almonds ’ at the scene of the crime , are detecting not cyanide but benzaldehyde , which is the essential flavour of bitter almonds . |
| 9 | 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 . |