Example sentences of "[verb] not [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The event was dominated not by the man but by a team of ladies all from the City of Derry , they were Ann Wallace , Claire Hughes and Vivienne Houston and their professional from Cill Dara was Gerry Burke . |
| 2 | The responsibility for that lies not with the west , but with the CIS itself . |
| 3 | The dynamic force for educational change this time around ( in contrast to the sixties and seventies ? ) lies not within the profession but is social and political and , in the latter sense , is enshrined in the Education Reform Acts of 1986 and 1988 in particular . |
| 4 | The deviance lies not in the act itself but is a consequence of the application by ‘ moral entrepreneurs ’ of rules and sanctions to the offender . |
| 5 | Eventually the ground of objectivity lies not in the past , in the nature of early members of the series or in our early grasp of the rule , but in the present behaviour of our linguistic or mathematical community . |
| 6 | time and again the Ministerial contribution to penal policy-making … lies not in the Minister 's bringing in his own fresh policy ideas , but in his operating creatively and with political drive upon ideas , proposals , reports , etc. , that are , so to speak , already to hand , often within the department but sometimes in the surrounding world of penal thought . |
| 7 | The chief danger from the resurgence of the far right in Western Europe lies not in the likelihood of its achieving any real influence , but in the reactions to it of centre right parties . |
| 8 | The utility of a bank loan lies not in the money itself , of course , but in the goods which can be purchased with it . |
| 9 | Salvation lies not in the thrust |
| 10 | The validity of critical theory lies not in the adoption of a method , vindicated by epistemology , but in the enlightenment that is successful in generating a political practice that moves towards emancipation , the liberation of human beings from domination . |
| 11 | However , for the historian the problem lies not in the absence of data , but rather in the bulk of the material available to him . |
| 12 | The important distinction between both dollar markets lies not in the nature of deposits or types of loan granted but in the fact that euro-dollar banking is not subject to US domestic banking regulations . |
| 13 | The first method — each bell unique but each ringing everywhere — means that the ‘ message ’ of the bell lies in its specific sound ; in the second , the message lies not in the bell , but in the way it is wired up . |
| 14 | Where goods are not durable , the mischief lies not in the fact that they ceased to perform adequately but rather that , at the date of supply , they did not have the capacity to endure . |
| 15 | In custodial terms , even a successful simulation exercise does no more than transfer the operational persona of an historic early machine to a currently supportable platform ( typically a 486-based PC ) which will itself be duly subject to generational obsolescence : the potential of the technique lies not in the immortality of current hardware but in the prospect of machine-independent software . |
| 16 | This time the difficulty lies not in the term ‘ professional ’ but in the term ‘ development ’ . |
| 17 | It is n't so long ago that the advocates of population control were being attacked not from the right but from the left . |
| 18 | Those four orientations , listed not in the order provided by Dahl but in the order I believe to be most significant to an understanding to British political culture , are toward ( 1 ) problem-solving , ( 2 ) the political system , ( 3 ) cooperation and individuality , and ( 4 ) other people . |
| 19 | If rectification were ordered , the loss would fall not upon the building society but upon the public purse . |
| 20 | The only stage process not in the mill was the actual weaving . |
| 21 | In some birds , females are attracted not by the quality of a male 's territory , but by the male himself . |
| 22 | Any backlash problem which there might be seemed to relate not to the nature of our oppression , but to problems of management and presentation by these left-wing councils . |
| 23 | ‘ Where a mercantile agent is , with the consent of the owner , in possession of goods or of the documents of title to goods , any sale , pledge or other disposition of the goods , made by him when acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent , shall , subject to the provisions of this Act be as valid as if he were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same ; provided that the person taking under the disposition takes in good faith , and has not at the time of the disposition notice that the person making the disposition has not authority to make the same . ’ |
| 24 | One is led to conclude from all this that despite some tactical ‘ victories ’ here and there , the British point of view with respect to policy in the EEC has not on the whole prevailed , any more than has its influence over the development of the institutional framework of the Community . |
| 25 | That has now decided that it will have one meeting of it 's council a year which will be it 's A G M , it has not for the moment elected an executive committee . |
| 26 | It is , however , a presumption that may be more easily displaced in family cases particularly those involving children where it has not in the past been usual practice to award costs against an unsuccessful party . |
| 27 | Perhaps the rage and common decency of the British people will vent itself in the near future where it has not in the past and finally get this Government out and replace it with a more caring one . |
| 28 | That is why the arms-for-Iraq case has caused such interest at Westminster , even if it has not in the rest of the country . |
| 29 | Elite theorists have tended to concentrate not on the material interests but on a common ideology , whether broadly or narrowly defined . |
| 30 | It is a big move to concentrate not on the co-operation between a school and one useful ally but on taking an active position in , for instance , needs-orientated community education for the benefit of the community at large . |