Example sentences of "[verb] not [noun sg] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Paskevich , whom he put in as Viceroy ( the Grand Duke Konstantin having died , like Dibich , of cholera ) , " The Poles … experienced not vengeance and retribution but assistance and the consignment of their guilt to oblivion " . |
| 2 | Others again have taken as the play 's essence the need to reconcile not truth and falsehood but competing truths . |
| 3 | That meaning is in front of you — the Cross , like a magnet , dragging you up hill and down dale , a magnet that attracts not iron and steel , but suffering flesh and bone . |
| 4 | However , once one begins to argue the toss about the liberal value of various academic subjects , it becomes difficult to exclude any of them : Do not medicine and engineering raise profound questions about life ? |
| 5 | Pomponius is quite clear that this amounts to a condition , and the consequence of that is that the legacy does not vest and transmission is not possible until the relevant age has been reached . |