Example sentences of "[verb] not [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " 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 | However that expedition was organised not by school teachers , but by professionals at an adventure centre . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They may involve two or more companies , who tend to be related not by product type but rather by similar customer profits . |
| 8 | It was a body shaped not by exercise machines and aerobics gyms , but by hard endeavour and an active life . |
| 9 | When it came to slum clearance , opposition came not from slum landlords but from the residents themselves . |
| 10 | I am going to focus not on dowry payments , but on the pilot programme . |
| 11 | McEniff prefers not to talk figures but he is clearly a wealthy man . |
| 12 | These take children only from the age of 3 , and are staffed not by nursery nurses but by trained teachers . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Employers ' preferences refer not to personality characteristics developed by a specialized , occupational socializing agency — the school — but to life-cycle characteristics . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Both Finnigan 's Smoothrite and Rust Not from Homestyle work on metal surfaces , and are available in aerosols |
| 18 | The percentage condition of the exclusion clause would apply not to list votes cast in the whole of the United Kingdom , but to list votes cast in England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland as the case might be . |
| 19 | It is assumed that these are linked not to profit maximisation , but depend on the size of the enterprise . |
| 20 | Does it not provide further evidence for the argument that if money is available it should be spent not on tax cuts but on our health service ? |
| 21 | In Russia we started not with War Communism but with the so-called New Economic Policy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The coach did not in fact crash and if he had remained on it he would have suffered no harm . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Consumers do not in practice shop for credit outside their own country , they simply use their home-based credit cards to make purchases abroad . |
| 29 | We are talking not about election expenses , but about theft from the House of Commons — — because there is no doubt that it is a theft of material — |
| 30 | A trust is what is left not in civil-law words but precatively , and is dependent not on the rigour of the civil law but on the intention or the settlor . |