Example sentences of "[verb] not the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’ |
| 2 | Has not the Prime Minister managed to get the worst of all worlds by vetoing what he should have accepted — the social upgrading that we all want — and by half accepting what he should have vetoed — economic and monetary union , which will be deeply damaging and which will lock both this country and Europe into a decade of deflation ? |
| 3 | The return to my house is strained by the thought that he still has not the faintest idea where he is going . |
| 4 | Although Mr Melding , a first-time candidate , has not the faintest chance of winning , he is reluctant to dwell gloomily on the fact . |
| 5 | If you then say , ah well it might expand to double that number or to five thousand , as was postulated , that then begs an even larger question , because in my submission you would then go back and revisit the alternatives of , for example , should you expand Tadcaster , which has not the best facilities in its town centre , er to quote but one example of er viability and sustainability of towns . |
| 6 | ( It may be noted that erection can occur in younger — sometimes much younger — boys ; but it has not the Same significance . ) |
| 7 | However , one has not the slightest doubt that the moving spirits behind the coaches ' gathering will have been England 's Geoff Cooke and Australia 's Bob Dwyer . |
| 8 | Every golfer in the world experiences that awful feeling of helplessness when he stands over a putt and knows that he has not the slightest chance of getting the ball near the hole , let alone into it . |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman is really behaving disgracefully — — when he accuses British Rail of negligence before an inquiry has even begun , and when he has not the slightest idea of what caused that accident . |
| 10 | A friend and follower of William Blake in his youth , Palmer was living in great poverty when he received the commission to illustrate Pictures From Italy after Stanfield 's defection ; time was short , and he provided not the 12 plates originally planned but four vignettes engraved on wood . |
| 11 | No , let's concentrate not the spectacular disasters — the dysentery and drug busts — but the everyday , inherent hellishness of the holiday perse . |
| 12 | This is not necessarily the best way of passing on the good news , but it does stir the passers-by to find not the paid priests but the cobbler , the miner , the man who sells meat fritters telling them about Jesus . |
| 13 | As the authorities which I have cited demonstrate , the visitor is applying not the general law of the land but a peculiar , domestic law of which he is the sole arbiter and of which the courts have no cognisance . |
| 14 | NOT and I repeat NOT the main carriage , as someone I know once did ! |
| 15 | With Buddie 's orders ringing in his ears , he stood his ground and made not the slightest move to obey . |
| 16 | He resolutely refused to conform to local customs and made not the slightest effort to understand the people . |
| 17 | The Rowley Mile was certainly no place for a scantily-clad 56-year-old , but needless to say in Piggott 's extraordinary case it made not the slightest difference . |
| 18 | Ahead was pure blackness ; I tried closing my eyes ; it made not the slightest difference . |
| 19 | Cedric ate them is vast quantities and with evident enjoyment but they , like everything else , made not the slightest difference to his condition . |
| 20 | Living so close to him , she understood ; she was beginning to see not the disfiguring scar and limp , but instead the essential Neil , who was so kind to herself — for all his teasing of her — and to Matey and his poor patients . |
| 21 | However , when Raymond Plant of Southampton University wrote a Fabian Tract on the subject , he chose to emphasise not the third element in the French Revolutionary triad but rather the third element in T.H. Marshall 's triad of civil , political and social citizenship . |
| 22 | The credit here denotes not the total amount the debtor has to pay but the element of financial accommodation . |
| 23 | Doth not the good father in short time , either by his coughing or spitting or testiness … become troublesome either to his own son or to his nice daughter-in-law , with continuing so long chargeable and so much waited-on , or to the children , with taking up their room at the fire or at the table , or to the servants , while his slow eating doth scant their reversions ? |
| 24 | Lucky that I carry it around with me ; and that it bears not the faintest resemblance to Daniel . ’ |
| 25 | But a fourth kind of intelligence might be added , which is diplomatic intelligence , which bears not the remotest relationship to any of the other three , nor to any kind of intelligence that can be identified by any human being . |
| 26 | Bishop George West thought that we should stay , but Pop knew that he , at least , must return , and finally he and I decided that we should all return , mainly because a separation when you three were still so young — and needing parents and not grandparents to care for you — seemed not the right course . |
| 27 | She got up , gazing at him ; for this seemed not the crazy figure of recent days , but Jake as she remembered him from years ago , her own father . |
| 28 | When I had finished I could see that it had made not the slightest impression . |
| 29 | ‘ I came here to do a job of work , and since that quite clearly is no longer possible — I can hardly tutor a pupil who is n't even here ! — I can see not the slightest reason to stay . |
| 30 | ‘ If he had stabbed someone 17 times less than an hour before , which I do n't believe he did , he certainly showed not the slightest emotion . ’ |