Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] not [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , towards the end , he said , ‘ I am convinced that where I have failed no one could have succeeded , ’ this appeared not a boast , but an understatement . |
| 2 | In all cases drunkenness may be material as showing that the accused had not the intention which forms part of the essence of the crime charged . |
| 3 | In studying a period and a phase in which what could be proved at the time to be shadows were so determinedly pursued , is he after all studying not an aberration , not a deviation from the normal , but the common behaviour of mankind ? |
| 4 | The official history of the German 27th Division , which defended Guillemont , records : ‘ In the Somme fighting of 1916 there was a spirit of heroism which was never again found in the division … the men in 1918 had not the temper , the hard bitterness and spirit of sacrifice of their predecessors . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Falt could be forgiven his smirk when , on election day , he was able to report not a body count but a remarkable turnout of voters . |
| 6 | But that millions had not the courage to be good . ’ |
| 7 | Three years at a nice school in Vienna , not too liberated , but at the same time not a convent school . |
| 8 | A predisposition to stress such as that apparently suffered by the accused in the present case might fall foul of this restriction and it may have been for this reason that the Court of Appeal preferred to regard the case as one which might have been disposed of under section 78 had not the trial judge wrongly taken the view that that section also requires some misconduct on the part of the police . |
| 9 | The serious losses suffered by the party in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in 1989 were repeated on a larger scale , and the rout might have been complete had not the assassination of Gandhi reduced the anti-Congress ( I ) swing in the June polling . |
| 10 | ‘ The time is ripe to abandon not the rank structure but the tendency to impart fashionable management theories which are not necessarily appropriate to policing and which only confuse supervisors throughout the service . |
| 11 | That provides not an incentive to invest but a disincentive — a penalty . |